Today’s Word
The Four Words (1)
But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared. Psalm 130:4 ESV Forgiveness – Just four words in Hebrew. Ki-imka has-liha’ lema’an tivare’. But the world on my black desolation changes with these four words. Each one is crucial for my rescue. Ki-imka (but with you) opens the thought. The divine alternative. YHWH…
The Divine Policeman
If You, Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? Psalm 130:3 NASB Should mark – I was always afraid of God. I wasn’t Catholic but when it came to guilt, I might as well have been. My childhood was punctuated by constant reminders that God saw everything I did, and as a result,…
God’s Obligation?
Out of the depths I have cried to You, O Lord. Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications. Psalm 130:1-2 NASB Hear – “Out of my deepest despair, out of my total helplessness in the face of the darkness of my heart, Lord, YHWH, shim’ah.” The cry…
Valley of the Shadow
Out of the depths I have cried to You, O Lord. Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications. Psalm 130:1-2 NASB Depths – The psalm of the good shepherd assures us that we can walk in the valley of the depths and not fear evil attacks. But…
Paradigm Exemplars (2)
It is your own wickedness that will punish you and your apostasy that will condemn you. Consider and take note what a bitter and evil thing it is to forsake Yahweh your God so that you have no reverence for me – The word of the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts. Jeremiah 2:19 (J. A. Thompson…
Paradigm Exemplars (1)
But you shall keep my statutes and my rules and do none of these abominations, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you. Leviticus 18:26 ESV Rules/ abominations – The Hebrew word for “rules” in this verse is mishpat. If we think of this word the way that we understand “rules,” we will…
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