Ps 19:14 May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart Be acceptable in Your sight, LORD, my rock and my Redeemer. This sigh from David, uttered roughly a thousand years before Jesus was born, speaks of meditation on the living God and all His attributes and precepts. It is only in …
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Children belonging to a royal household
1 John 3:1 See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are! When we are born again, which means we have confessed Jesus as our Saviour and Lord and Master and have received His Holy Spirit within us, we are adopted into the family …
L’Chaim!
This Jewish toast, given at engagement and wedding celebrations, is well-known even among Gentiles (non-Jews) and means “To life!” The recent unfortunate events leading to the implosion of the submersible Titan, on a journey to observe the wreck of the Titanic, are currently ongoing news. It is the tragic deaths of those five men on …
The defiled church
Ezekiel 8:14 & 16 He brought me to the north gate of the LORD’s Temple, and some women were sitting there, weeping for the god Tammuz. Then he brought me into the inner courtyard of the LORD’s Temple. At the entrance to the sanctuary, between the entry room and the bronze altar, there were about …
About three thousand
Ex 32:28 The Levites did as Moses commanded, and that day about three thousand of the people died. This speaks of the day Moses returned from the mountain Sinai with God’s Law written on stone tablets, only to find that in his brief (40days) absence, the people had made a golden calf and had started …
Facing Jerusalem
Daniel is one of my faith-heroes! His steadfast integrity towards man and faithful worship towards his God have always impressed me, and spurred me on in my own walk of faith. In Daniel 6 we read a few interesting facts about Daniel’s prayer life: Daniel 6:10 But when Daniel learned that the law had been …
Do not keep silent
Daniel 5:5 Suddenly the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. The king watched the hand as it wrote. This tells of the incident where Belshazzar (named for his god, Bel), King of Babylon, was feasting with a thousand of his …
I will betroth you to Me
Hosea 2:19-20 “I will betroth you to Me forever; Yes, I will betroth you to Me In righteousness and justice, In lovingkindness and mercy; I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness, And you shall know the LORD.” For a wounded bride, wandering around lost and hopeless because of the betrayal of her first-love husband, …
From glory to glory
2 Corinthians 3:18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit. There are verses in the Bible that are so packed with layers and layers of meaning, that we …
Hidden miracles
If I were to ask any of you to recall a miracle which God had performed in the past, I am reasonably sure that many of you would recount the parting of the Red Sea during Israel’s exodus; or the three Hebrews in the fiery furnace described in Daniel; or any of the epic narratives …