Then the Lord God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?” Genesis 3:9 NASB Where – Man was created to be useful. In fact, he was assigned an indispensable role on the earth—to steward it on God’s behalf. “Then the Lord God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it…
“Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his fierce anger so that we will not perish.” Jonah 3:9 NIV His fierce anger – “A better god has been discovered who never takes offense, is never angry, never inflicts punishment.”[1] If Tertullian is right, then the king of Nineveh is grossly mistaken. Too bad he made…
A long time ago, God decided to be a blacksmith. I don’t think He originally intended to enter that trade. While He has always been a master craftsman with metal, I am quite sure that He didn’t deliberately learn the art of heating and beating things into shape because He enjoyed the task. God became…
And He took him outside and said, “Now look toward the heavens, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” And He said to him, “So shall your descendants be.” Genesis 15:5 NASB If– Avivah Zornberg frames our persistent question: “How can an individual count? The children of Abraham are to be like the sand on…
How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How vast is the sum of them! Psalm 139:17 NASB Vast– David is the poet who looked up to the heavens and declared, “What is man that You take thought of him, and the son of man that You care for him?” Nevertheless, David insists that God created Man…
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…
