2 Tim 1:9 He has saved us and called us to a holy life—not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time, “Before the beginning of time”—quite literally means, “before everlasting times”. This is a mind-boggling …
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Human wisdom
Judges 7:12 The armies of Midian, Amalek, and the people of the east had settled in the valley like a swarm of locusts. Their camels were like grains of sand on the seashore—too many to count! If you were an army general, facing an overwhelming enemy army like the one mentioned above on your doorstep, …
Treasure the Holy Spirit
Exodus 31:2-3 See, I have chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, with understanding, with knowledge and with all kinds of skills— During the time of the Old Testament, the Holy Spirit filled certain men at …
Meditation
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 …
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 …