Un-hardening the Heart

and the Lord had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have their request. Therefore they plundered the Egyptians. Exodus 12:36  NASB Let them have – Imagine you’re an Egyptian.  You’ve just had your crops ruined, your water made undrinkable, your livestock destroyed, and your sons killed.  And it’s all…

Moses and Micah

“Now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to keep the Lord’s commandments and His statutes which I am commanding you today for your good?”  Deuteronomy 10:12-13  NASB Require –…

The Egocentric Gospel (1)

Delight yourself in the Lord; and He will give you the desires of your heart. Psalm 37:4 NASB Desires – Does God want you to have what you want? By translating the feminine noun mishalot as “desires,” we are inclined to believe that one of God’s purposes is to be the genie who grants us…