Today’s Word
Does God Do It All?
I will cry to God Most High, to God who accomplishes all things for me. Psalm 57:2 [English] NASB Who accomplishes all things – Poetry is difficult to understand. Just ask my Italian students who are studying Walt Whitman or Edgar Allen Poe. Poets like to manipulate the language, strike unusual parallels, twist resonance, and bend meanings in…
The Ends of Regrets
Hopefully the sun is setting on all those past ghosts and what’s left is a beautiful finish. Topical Index: regrets
Accumulation
Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, Philippians 3:13b NIV Forgetting what is behind – Isn’t it nice to know that Paul was so focused, so spiritual, that he could forget everything that was in the past and just concentrate on what would be in the future? Don’t you wish you had such…
A Moral Blow
Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her by the roadside and said, “Come now, let me sleep with you.” Genesis 38:16a NIV Sleep with you – Okay, so we’re past the scandalous nature of this event. We think of it religiously as if it’s about inequity, and, of course, ultimately, about the…
Half of the Story
Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her by the roadside and said, “Come now, let me sleep with you.” Genesis 38:16a NIV Sleep with you – Of course, the Hebrew doesn’t use our modern circumlocution. The Hebrew text reads, “let me come in to you,” perhaps a bit too graphic for our…
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