Today’s Word
A Personal Ideal
How fair you are, how beautiful! O Love, with all its raptures! Song of Songs 7:7 JPS Its – Does the second part of this verse sound a bit strange to you? The man begins with something we can easily understand. He thinks his lover is incredibly beautiful. But instead of “O love, with all…
Round Pegs, Square Holes
“Who knows, God may turn and relent, and turn from His burning anger so that we will not perish.” Jonah 3:9 NASB Who knows? – Nineveh is a problem. Not because it was an evil city that needed to be eradicated. Not because Jonah resisted announcing God’s intention. No, Nineveh is a problem because of…
Opening the Wound
Therefore, encourage one another and build one another up, just as you also are doing. 1 Thessalonians 5:11 NASB Build up – “Generally, relationships build by a process of reciprocal self-revelations. One individual takes the leap and reveals some intimate material; thereby placing himself or herself at risk; the other closes the gap by reciprocating in kind;…
Essential Loss
Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God, Psalm 146:5 NASB Hope – When is it necessary to hope? That’s an odd question, wouldn’t you say? We don’t think about a particular time to hope. Hope is almost like a constant companion. We hope the weather will be…
The Empty Space
Now when the entire nation had finished crossing the Jordan, the Lord spoke to Joshua, saying, Joshua 4:1 NASB Had finished crossing – Sometimes what matters most is what can’t be written and can’t be read. Here’s what this verse looks like in the Hebrew text: {וַיְהִי כַּאֲשֶׁר-תַּמּוּ כָל-הַגּוֹי לַעֲבוֹר אֶת-הַיַּרְדֵּן {פ וַיֹּאמֶר יְהוָה אֶל-יְהוֹשֻׁעַ לֵאמֹר Notice this…
Miracle Consciousness
The sea looked and fled; the Jordan turned back. Psalm 114:3 NASB Turned back – Biblical cartoon animation. That’s what I imagine when I read a verse like this. Why? Because the verbs associated with these descriptions of the crossing of the Sea of Reeds and the Jordan are emotional and personal, as if the Sea and…
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