Healing Wounds

When He killed them, then they sought Him, and they returned and searched diligently for God;  Psalm 78:34  NASB Sought – When do you seek God?  Well, when do most people seek God?  When things are bad.  When we want a God-genie to fix things. When we’re suffering.  The rest of the time, God is sort of…

Genesis in John

Then he said, “Let me go, for the dawn is breaking.” Genesis 32:26a NASB Dawn– There are a lot of strange verses in the story of Jacob’s encounter with the “man” at the brook Jabbok.  If you’ve read Crossing,[1]then you know just how odd the story really is.  Recently I read a comment by Michael Wyschogrod that provides…

Just Think About It

O God, You are my God; I shall seek You earnestly; My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You, In a dry and weary land where there is no water. Psalm 63:1  NASB Seek You earnestly– If you’re going to understand what it means to seek God earnestly, you’ll have to know something about the Piel stem. …

Before We See

If I take the wings of the dawn, If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea,  Psalm 139:9 NASB Wings of the dawn– Twilight is a time of strange visions.  It’s that time just before the sun breaks the horizon or just after the sun hides behind the edge of the world.  When Hebrew…

Sunburned (2)

O God, You are my God; I shall seek You earnestly; my soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You, in a dry and weary land where there is no water. Psalm 63:1 NASB Seek earnestly – When we examined what appeared to be merely repetition in the opening phrase, we discovered some amazing…