Giving Up the Ghost

A Prayer of the afflicted when he is weak and pours out his complaint before the Lord.  Psalm 102 NASB Weak – Amazingly, our word “weak” isn’t found in the languages of Europe until the 12th Century.  I guess before that people never knew what it meant to be physically exhausted (No, probably not.  There are…

God’s Weakness

For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh,  Romans 8:3  NASB Weak – Oh, the pitiful Law!  It just couldn’t do what God wanted.  It was so inadequate to rescue us.  It…

I Just Can’t Do It!

Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong. 2 Corinthians 12:10 NASB Weak – If you read the list of trials in the first part of the verse and stop before you come to the final…

Who Is Weak?

Now accept the one who is weak in faith, but not for the purpose of passing judgment on his opinions. Romans 14:1 Weak – If I called you “weak in faith” in Rome in the first century, who would you be?  That’s a rather odd question, but it is crucial to understanding what Paul is…