Today’s Word
Love
“And you shall love the LORD your God, and keep His charges” Deuteronomy 11:1 Love – Ahav is one of three Hebrew verbs about love. It’s not a “feelings” verb. It is an obedience verb. It calls us to action, not necessarily emotion. That’s why it can be a command. That’s why it is quite…
Name of the Lord
“For whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved” Romans 10:13 Name of the Lord – Now it’s obvious, isn’t it? After we discover that “His name’s sake” (yesterday: Acts 9:16) is really a question about who is the king, then it becomes quite clear that calling on the name of the…
Name’s sake
“for I will show him how much he must suffer for My name’s sake.” Acts 9:16 Name’s sake – It’s hard to understand what this means. We don’t use the expression “name’s sake” very often, so it leaves us with a sort of puzzled confusion. But if we see the literal Greek, we get a…
Good work
“that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus” Philippians 1:6 Good work – Not all of it counts! God doesn’t take “bad” work and make something of it. Nor does He take just “work”. He begins a good work and then He makes sure it…
The Way
“so that if he found any being of the Way, both men and women, having bound them” Acts 9: 2 The Way – My friend told me a story about his trip to Switzerland. After work, he was invited to the home of a believer. As he sat with the family, he told the man…
Blameless
“so that you may approve the things that are excellent, in order to be sincere and blameless until the day of Christ” Philippians 1:10 Blameless – Blame, blame, go away, come again some other day. Well, not exactly. We want the blame to go away but we certainly don’t want it back later. God deals…
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