Now More Than Ever

Do not hide your face from me in the day of my distress!  Incline your ear to me; Answer me speedily in the day when I call!  Psalm 102:2  ESV My distress – How often have you cried out to YHWH in this way?  You and I speak the same words that David spoke.  Life…

Once Too Often

July 29  Then she conceived again and gave birth to a daughter. And the Lord said to him, “Name her Lo-ruhamah, for I will no longer have compassion on the house of Israel, that I would ever forgive them.  Hosea 1:6  NASB Compassion – There is no doubt that Israel deserved God’s anger.  Israel sinned…

A Good Death

May it never be!  How shall we who have died to sin still live in it?  Romans 6:2  NASB Died – Let’s talk about death.  Not a pleasant topic, but an inevitable one.  In Greek thought, death (thanatos) is a natural process that happens to all living entities.  While there is a certain type of…

Inside Job

Yes, You will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.  Micah 7:19  NASB Cast – This is the Hebrew word shalak.  It has several different senses, all associated with throwing down.  It can mean the physical act of throwing down something, casting aside something or, in an important sense, abandoning something.  Micah…

Sin in Repose

sin is crouching at the door; and its desire is for you, but you must master it.   Genesis 4:7  NASB Crouching – Genesis chapter 4 is the story of Cain and Abel.  It is a story that we have probably known since childhood.  It is the story of the results of allowing the yetzer ha’ra…

Abbey Road

Would YHWH reject forever, and never again be pleased?  Has His kindness ceased forever, has the promise failed for all generations.  Has El forgotten to show favour? Has He shut up His compassions in displeasure?  Selah.  Tehillim 77:7-9  ISR Never again be pleased – I’m right there with the boys.  “And in the end,  ….

What Is God Like?

And Elohim said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over . . .”  Genesis 1:26  ISR Image/Likeness – God created you.  You are the representation of His image and likeness.  What does that mean?  How are you like God?  If you can’t answer that question for…

Scared to Death (2)

For God shall bring every work into judgment, with all that is hidden, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.  Ecclesiastes 12:14  Jay Green Judgment – “The strength of the yetzer ha’ra is precisely in convincing us that we do not need these words of instruction because we are above believing in such…

Human Dualism

Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.  Genesis 2:7  NASB Living Being – Will we ever get past Genesis?  Probably not.  The depth of this account of creation can hardly be plumbed.  Once more we return…