Today’s Word

The Act of Not Forgetting

“Can a woman forget her nursing child and have no compassion on the son of her womb?  Even these may forget, but I will not forget you.”  Isaiah 49:15 Forget – Have you forgotten your eighth-grade geography lessons?  Do you still remember high school civics?  Or kindergarten games?  The chances are pretty good that those…
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Personal and Categorical

But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me.”   Isaiah 49:14 LORD, Lord – We also complain that God has forsaken and forgotten.  We think that the desperation of our lives or the frustration in our efforts or the trials we face must mean that God does not, in some…
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The Buy-Back Clause

Is my hand so short that it cannot ransom?  Or have I no power to deliver?   Isaiah 50:2 Ransom – God asks the rhetorical question, “Did you imagine that I was not able to buy you back?”  It is a question much like His query of Abraham.  “Is anything too difficult for Me?” (Genesis 18:14…
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Counter-intuitive

The fear of the LORD leads to life, so that one may sleep satisfied, untouched by evil.   Proverbs 19:23 Satisfied – Ask anyone.  Does God keep all evil away from His children?  Are Christians really exempt from harm and struggle and trials? Or do we observe something else?  This proverb seems to deny our common…
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The Agony and the Ecstasy

Fight the good fight  1 Timothy 6:12 Fight – Paul introduces the first century spiritual Olympics,  the agon of competition (the Greek means, “strife, contest and struggle”).  Paul chooses a word that every Greek reader would instantly recognize – the Games.  Athlete against athlete, fighting it out in the hope of victory.  Striving to obtain…
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