Power Harnessed

28   Let your gentle spirit be known to all people. The Lord is near.  Philippians 4:5 NASB Gentle spirit – What is the biblical idea of “gentle spirit”?  Is it meekness, sympathy, benevolence, a demure attitude, a light touch?  If those are your synonyms, what you do think about Moses, Jeremiah, Peter?  Would you say they had gentle…

The Storm God

May their table before them become a trap, and their allies a snare.  May their eyes grow too dark to see, make their loins perpetually shake.  Pour out upon them Your wrath, and Your blazing fury overtake them.  Psalm 69:23-25 [Hebrew Bible]  Robert Alter Wrath – Here are your choices: wrath, fury, indignation, anger, judgment,…

The Un-reason

Because of Your indignation and Your wrath; for You have lifted me up and thrown me away.  Psalm 102:10  NASB Indignation – I’m guessing that if I asked you for a definition of indignation, you’d stumble a bit.  It’s not a commonly used word.  We have some inkling of its meaning, but not precisely. If we…