Today’s Word
Measure for Measure?
With the kind You show Yourself kind; with the blameless You show Yourself blameless; with the pure You show Yourself pure, and with the crooked You show Yourself astute. Psalm 18:25-26 NASB Astute – Are you kind? Then you experience the kindness of God. Are you blameless (yes, I know that might seem impossible)? Then…
The Beast Within
I was also blameless with Him, and I kept myself from my iniquity. Psalm 18:23 NASB My iniquity – It would be much easier to for David to say that he kept himself “from iniquity.” Then the wickedness would be alien, outside, an enemy at a distance. But David uses the Hebrew ‘awoni, the combination…
Payback
The Lord has rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands He has recompensed me. For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God. Psalm 18:20-21 NASB According to my righteousness – Who among us could make a claim like David’s? Who…
The Hidden God
He made darkness His hiding place, His canopy around Him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies. Psalm 18:11 NASB Darkness – Where is the Lord, the God of creation, YHVH of Israel? Why don’t we see Him exercise His mighty hand on behalf of the righteousness? Why are the wicked of the world…
Fire Starter
Then the earth shook and quaked; and the foundations of the mountains were trembling and were shaken, because He was angry. Smoke went up out of His nostrils, and fire from His mouth devoured; coals were kindled by it. Psalm 18:7-8 NASB Angry – God is angry. Woe to sinner is His hands! At least…
Six by Nine
In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried to my God for help; He heard my voice out of His temple, and my cry for help before Him came into His ears. Psalm 18:6 NASB In my distress – batstsarli – “in my distress” – is the place of confinement. The narrow place. The…
Search more than 9000 word studies here
Recent Today’s Word
- The Motivation Question
- Graphic Imagery
- The Great Shiekh Zayed Mosque, Abu Dhabi
- Plato’s Paradigm
- Progress Report
- Turning the Tables
- Bound to Deliver
- To Be or To Be
