Today’s Word
The Hitchhiker’s Guide (22)
Listen to instruction and be wise, and do not neglect it. Proverbs 8:33 NASB Listen – “The strength of the yetzer ha-ra is precisely in convincing us that we do not need these words or instruction because we are above believing in such simple notions as reward and punishment.”[1] How’s your spiritual IQ? Pretty good, right? …
The Hitchhiker’s Guide (21)
To know wisdom and reproof, to understand discerning maxims. To accept the reproof of insight, righteousness, justice, and uprightness. To give shrewdness to the simple, to a lad, knowledge and cunning, Let the wise man hear and gain learning, and the discerning acquire designs. Proverbs 1:2-5 Robert Alter Reproof – Reconsider the context of that…
Insult and Injury
Through all this Job did not sin nor did he blame God. Job 1:22 NASB 1995 Nor did he blame – But the Hebrew isn’t quite what we think of when we read these words in English. We think of “blame” as assigning responsibility or finding fault. So, in our Western theology, if God is…
My Birthday
A day off for me. This is where I will spend some of it.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide (19b): The Watcher Part 2
You too, be ready; because the Son of Man is coming at an hour that you do not think He will.” Luke 12:40 NASB Be ready – The March 29 edition of My Utmost for His Highest could have been written by Moses Luzzatto rather than Oswald Chambers (with a few corrections for Christian vocabulary). Chambers…
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