Victimizing God

“What can I do with you, Ephraim? What can I do with you, Judah? Your love is like the morning mist, like the early dew that disappears.” Hosea 6:4 NIV What – Victim: a person harmed, injured or killed as a result of a crime, accident or other event; a person who is duped or…

Jumper

What then?  Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace?  May it never be!  Romans 6:15  NASB What then? – “Questions of faith are not philosophical, sociological or psychological; they are intensely personal.  Everyone has to find his or her own way of dealing with them.  The point at which a…

A Soft Heart

And in the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.  Romans 8:26  NASB How – Not quite right.  This translation in the NASB isn’t quite what Paul is saying.  Your…

The Wrong Question

What is man that You take thought of him, and the son of man that You care for him? Psalm 8:4 What – The Hebrew word mah is an indefinite interrogative pronoun that means “what?”  But “what” isn’t right in this verse.  The Hebrew translation is correct, but the cultural transposition isn’t.  “What is man?”…