The arrogant utterly deride me, yet I do not turn aside from Your Law. Psalm 119:51 NASB Utterly deride – How do you handle insults? How do you react to blame? What does it feel like when someone shows contempt toward you? What happens when someone mocks you? All of these questions seem to be front and center…
I can do all things through Him who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13 NASB All things– I opened a box of keepsakes. I’d had them for a long time. Too precious to discard but no space to display, so they stayed, carefully wrapped, in storage, not quite forgotten, gentle reminders whenever I came to look at things that mattered…
but one thing I do, forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead Philippians 3:13 NASB Reaching forward – Greek adds emphasis to a word by attaching the prefix epi. Paul uses this linguistic construction with this verb – epekteino (epi + ekteino). It means, “to really stretch out toward something.” You…
