“If only my words were written in a book— better yet, chiselled in stone! Still, I know that God lives—the One who gives me back my life— and eventually he’ll take his stand on earth. And I’ll see him—even though I get skinned alive!— see God myself, with my very own eyes. Oh, how I […]
Keep lifting
Hallelujah! You who serve GOD, praise GOD! Just to speak his name is praise! Just to remember GOD is a blessing— now and tomorrow and always. From east to west, from dawn to dusk, keep lifting all your praises to GOD! Psalm 113:3 MSG God ought to receive every praise that due his name but […]
Don’t muzzle an ox
Don’t muzzle an ox while it is threshing. Deuteronomy 25 v 4 I’m not just sounding off because I’m irritated. This is all written in the scriptural law. Moses wrote, “Don’t muzzle an ox to keep it from eating the grain when it’s threshing.” Do you think Moses’ primary concern was the care of farm […]
Teach me to do your will
Teach me to do your will, for you are my God! Let your good Spirit lead me on level ground! Psalm 143:10 – ESV Think of this as your go to verse for when you are in trouble. We need the Spirit’s counsel in every situation but even more so when things get bad. And […]
Everything is as God has made it
But in the end, does it really make a difference what anyone does? I’ve had a good look at what God has given us to do—busywork, mostly. True, God made everything beautiful in itself and in its time—but he’s left us in the dark, so we can never know what God is up to, whether […]
Skies
I look up at your macro-skies, dark and enormous, your handmade sky-jewellery, Moon and stars mounted in their settings. Then I look at my micro-self and wonder, Why do you bother with us? Why take a second look our way? Psalm 8:3-4 MSG The text is now to be used as the basis of the […]
Self-Control
A person without self-control is like a house with its doors and windows knocked out. Proverbs 25 v 28 Without doors and windows the house is open to assault from everything. Putting rules in place (sometimes called discipline) is good for us. One basic rule that car drivers in Britain adhere to is a red light. […]
Joy in God
Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to anyone who has nothing ready, for this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.” Nehemiah 8:10 The day that is talked about, is […]
God is my Salvation
“Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the Lord God is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation.” Isaiah 12:2 C.S.Lewis summed it up perfectly. “Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.” When Isaiah […]
Can a mother?
Can a mother forget the baby at her breastand have no compassion on the child she has borne?Though she may forget,I will not forget you!See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands;your walls are ever before me. Isaiah 49:15-16 NIV But God specifically tells us that He will not forget us. In […]
Ecclesiastes
1 These are the words of the Quester, David’s son and king in Jerusalem Smoke, nothing but smoke. [That’s what the Quester says.] There’s nothing to anything—it’s all smoke.What’s there to show for a lifetime of work, a lifetime of working your fingers to the bone?One generation goes its way, the next one arrives, but nothing changes—it’s business as […]
Wisdom
Become wise by walking with the wise; hang out with fools and watch your life fall to pieces. Proverbs 13:20 MSG He that walketh with wise men shall be wise,…. Who is a companion of them that fear the Lord; converses frequently with them in private about spiritual and experimental things, and walks with them […]