Today’s Word
Blowing in the Wind: Day 3
“to bow his head down like a bulrush” Isaiah 58:5 Bulrush – When I was a child, we called them cattails. Those long green stalks rising from the water’s edge, ending in a clump of densely packed seeds. Isaiah uses this image to describe one important aspect of false worship: the ease of bowing in…
Sin and Complaint: Day 2
“Why have we fasted”, they say, “and you have not seen it”. “Why have we humbled ourselves and you have not noticed?” Isaiah 58:3 NIV Why? – The people complain: “Why don’t you hear us? We have fasted. We have done our duty. But you don’t answer. Why don’t you do something? Don’t you see…
The Twelve Days of Christmas: Day 1
“Shout it aloud, do not hold back, raise your voice like a trumpet. Declare to my people their rebellion and to the house of Jacob their sins.” Isaiah 58:1 NIV Shout it aloud – For the next twelve days, we will look at one paragraph in Isaiah. As preparation for the coming of the Messiah,…
The Womb of Protection
“For if He causes grief, then He will have compassion.” Lamentations 3:32 Have Compassion – The beauty of the Hebrew word raham is not found its translation as “compassion” but rather in its connection with pregnancy. It’s the umbrella of meaning that shows us the real picture. What does compassion look like? Raham tells us…
The Man of Sorrows
“For if He causes grief, then He will have compassion.” Lamentations 3:32 Causes Grief – Jeremiah was a prophet of unusual insight. Perhaps that’s because he got his vision straight from God. Here Jeremiah gives us a glimpse of the connection between grief and compassion. It’s not the connection we would expect. Jeremiah tells us…
Clarity
“but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away.” 1 Corinthians 13:10 When – Do you have Job’s DNA? Are you a blood relative of the man who cried out to God, “Just tell me why”? I often think that the principal reason for the book of Job is not to resolve the…
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