You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You understand my thought from afar. Psalm 139:2 NASB Thought– God knows it all, right? He knows every thought you have, every fleeting desire, every inclination, every unvoiced declaration. We all agree. God knows us—perhaps better than we know ourselves. After all, He is the omniscient external observer in…
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being…
He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention which He purposed in Him. Ephesians 1:9 NASB Will – We’ve made a mistake! A huge mistake that affects every person on the planet. It wasn’t deliberate: it was simply the accidental result of our natural tendencies. But the implications…
“I know that You can do all things, and that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted.” Job 42:2 NASB Purpose – Do you really believe that God can do all things? Perhaps we are only truly capable of such a statement when we have suffered the inexplicable at the hands of YHVH. It’s easy to…
He said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I shall return there. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.” Job 1:21 NASB Taken away – Acceptance. This is the Job answer to the first stage of catastrophe. God gives. It is a blessing to recognize that God is…
The Lord has made everything for its own purpose, even the wicked for the day of evil. Proverbs 16:4 NASB Everything – The scope of Solomon’s statement is universal. Kol, everything, is included in the vision of this short verse. Since there is nothing that exists unless God made it, there are absolutely no exceptions to this claim….
“Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?” Job 3:23 NASB Light – “Even though I walk through the valley of tsalmawet.” What kind of valley is tsalmawet? One that we know, unfortunately. “It describes the darkness of eyelids tired from weeping (Job 16:16), the thick…
“but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die.” Genesis 2:17 NASB Tree of the knowledge of good and evil – What exactly is this “tree” in the Garden? Maimonides makes it clear that it cannot…
The Lord is my strength and song, and He has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise Him; my father’s God, and I will extol Him. Exodus 15:2 NASB Praise – If we read the praises of the Lord in the Psalms, we are likely to find the verb zamar. In…
who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was granted us in Christ Jesus from all eternity, 2 Timothy 1:9 NASB Sometimes Oswald Chambers just nails it. In his commentary of July 28, he pounds the point home…
