RETURN TO THE ABBEY DIARY ENTRY #1 Isaiah 52:4: “Behold the former things have come to pass and new things do I declare, before they spring forth I tell you of them.” I leave for my second visit to the Abbey in three years to spend a week in silence. I am facing new beginnings,
Proverbs 15:25 “The Lord will destroy the house of the proud, but he will establish the border of the widows. I find it curious that the word used for widow is almah which is often used for a virgin. In this case this woman is not really a virgin if she is widow.
Isaiah 52:4: “Behold the former things have come to pass and new things do I declare, before they spring forth I tell you of them.” Judging from the mail I get it appears I am not the only one looking forward to some new things. People of all ages have written to me talking
(PLEASE NOTE: TOMORROW I LEAVE FOR MY WEEK OF SILENCE, UNLESS THINGS HAVE CHANGED SINCE MY LAST VISIT TO THE ABBEY I WILL HAVE NO INTERNET CONNECTION. HOWEVER, I WILL KEEP A JOURNAL AND IF THERE IS A WAY I CAN SEND OUT MY DAILY ENTRIES I WILL DO SO. IF NOT I SHALL RESUME
Psalms 38:8 “I am feeble and sore broken, I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.” This appears to be written at a time when David is really getting serious about his relationship with God. He is very aware of his past sins and failings. He has confessed them ,
Daniel 12:4: But thou, O Daniel shut up the words and seal the book to the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.” I am continually researching the Jewish and Christian literature and occasionally I will reprint an old study with some new updates to give
Malachi 3:2: “But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he [is] like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap:” The day of His coming is not a reference to an actually appearance. We are so use to the words Second Coming and the
Malachi 3:6: “For I [am] the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.” I have a friend who is convinced that we are about to hear the final Trump. That’s Donald Trump. I have yet to hear the jokes being made that compare Donald Trump to the Biblical Trump
“Numbers 12:3: “And the man Moses was very humble above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.” When I was a student at Moody Bible Institute, my roommate and I had a friend, named Kanechi, who attended the Illinois Institute of Technology. He would often come to Moody to
Matthew 18:19-20: Again I say unto you that if two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in their midst.” The
