Category: Bible Reading & Meditation
Psalm 127:2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil; for he gives sleep to his loved ones. (WEB) Psalm 127 starts off with the well known verse that says that unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain. Unless it is the Lord who watches over a city, the guards are wasting their time. (My paraphrase 🙂 The first verse of this psalm speaks of the vanity of human effort. Unless it is the Lord who is doing the building and the watching, our efforts are...
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“Mark well, then, the parable of the sower. The seed along the path is the man who hears the message about God’s reign without understanding it. The evil one approaches him to steal away what was sown in his mind.” –Matthew 13:18-19 The fact that you’re reading this book means you are probably not the footpath. You have received the seed of God’s Word. If you have read this book and especially the daily Scripture readings regularly for an extended time, you are probably not the rocky ground (see Mt 13:20). You are in the minority of people in our...
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“I am coming to you in a dense cloud, so that when the people hear Me speaking with you, they may always have faith in you also.” –Exodus 19:9 God manifested Himself in a mighty way to the Israelites at Mount Sinai (Ex 19:16ff), speaking to them both directly and through Moses, and giving them the Ten Commandments. Yet within a short time, they abandoned Him to worship a golden calf (Ex 32:1ff). Jesus spoke to the Israelite people of the kingdom of God in parables (Mt 13:10), discourses (Mt 5:1ff), and in signs and wonders. Though Jesus gave them...
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Romans 16:20 And the God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. (WEB) Paul’s encouragement in today’s Scripture verse is simply that it is God who will crush every enemy under your feet. It isn’t your own power that will accomplish this, but your heavenly Dad’s! He has a father’s heart for you and promises to fight on your behalf! Exodus 14:14 says… “Yahweh will fight for you, and you shall be still.” (WEB) I can remember a season in my life where I struggled with fear. No...
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“I will seek Him Whom my heart loves.” –Song of Songs 3:2 Love can never be completely satisfied or complacent. Love by its very nature must be expressed, grow, and always find greater ways to bless the beloved. “Love following upon love” (Jn 1:16) always seeks the good of the other. Love, in a sense, is restless because love cannot rest until all is well with the beloved. Love ignores personal safety and comfort. It always finds a way to increase the welfare of the beloved. Love seeks the beloved day and night (Sg 3:1-2). Love always seeks a way...
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