Today’s Word

Ahead of Me

Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country, and from your relatives and from your father’s house, to the land which I will show you;  Genesis 12:1 NASB Go – lĕk-lekā’.  As you can clearly see in the highlighted text below, this imperative is made up of several combined words.  It’s not simply “Go.”  The grammar…
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Speed Reading?

Then afterward he read all the words of the Law, the blessing and the curse, according to everything that is written in the Book of the Law.  Joshua 8:34  NASB    All the words – According to the text, following the successful conquest of Ai, all Israel gathers between two mountains and a series of religious rituals are performed.  One of these,…
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Which Is It?

For You do not delight in sacrifice, otherwise I would give it; You do not take pleasure in burnt offering.  Psalm 51:16  NASB   Do not delight – How often we’ve heard the claim that the sacrificial system no longer applies.  After all, David himself tells us that God doesn’t take any pleasure is the religious ritual of slaughtering animals for…
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Ah, Not Quite

Save me from the guilt of bloodshed, God, the God of my salvation; Then my tongue will joyfully sing of Your righteousness.  Psalm 51:14  NASB Guilt of Bloodshed – Notice how Chabad translates this Hebrew verse: Save me from blood, O God, the God of my salvation; let my tongue sing praises of Your charity.  Chabad There is a…
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Unfettered

Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and sustain me with a willing spirit.  Psalm 51:12  NASB Willing – If I asked you, “What kind of spirit would you like to keep you going?” would you answer, “Oh, one that is under obligation, restricted, limited.”  No, of course not.  You’d want an animating force that was…
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