Eden Revisited

And you shall eat and be satisfied, and shall bless YHWH your Elohim for the good land which He has given you.  . . . [less] that then your heart becomes lifted up, and you forget YHWH your Elohim who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim, from the house of bondage, Deuteronomy 8:10,…

Derailed

Consider my affliction and my travail; and forgive all my sins. Psalm 25:18 Consider – David isn’t like me.  At least he’s not like me in his wholehearted cry to the Lord.  We may share other things.  His faults maybe my faults, but God Himself recognized that David continued in faithful direction even if he…

Seeing Is Believing

“Let this Christ, the King of Israel, now come down from the cross, so that we may see and believe!” Mark 15:32 See – Where do you suppose that cultural aphorism (“seeing is believing”) came from?  I’m guessing that you never thought about it.  In popular Christian circles “seeing is believing” is often opposed to…

Life On Purpose

Who is the man who desires life and loves length of days that he may see good? Psalm 34:13 See – Can you name the man whose passion is for good?  That’s at the heart of David’s question.  This man has purpose and that purpose is to see good all his days.  Let’s go back…

Linguistically Challenged

Abraham called the name of that place The LORD Will Provide, as it is said to this day, “In the mount of the LORD it will be provided.” Genesis 22:14 The LORD Will Provide – How I wish I could spend the rest of my life studying the incredible depths of Genesis! Its riches are…

She Sees Too

And He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s slave-girl, where did you come from and where are you going?”  Genesis 16:8 Hagar – By now you are well aware that names in the Hebrew Scriptures often carry deeper meanings.  Sometimes the Scriptures explain those meanings.  Sometimes they don’t, and we are left to discover them ourselves.  And sometimes…