Song of Solomon 5:2 “I sleep but my heart is awake, it is the voice of my beloved that knocks.” This is a very romantic phrase which carries very deep spiritual insight. The poetry is so sweet, She hears her beloved’s voice in the knock of the door. Come on guys, we all
Psalms 138:6: “Though the LORD [be] high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off.” Someone sent me an email asking how I ended up driving a bus for the disabled and working as a caregiver. I suppose the real reason no longer exist but the reason
Isaiah 54:7: “For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.” Deuteronomy 31:6: “Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he [it is] that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor
I Kings 17: 4,7: “And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.” 7.“And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.” There was a great drought in
Job 9:28: “I am afraid of all my sorrow, I know thou wilt not hold me innocent.” “God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains. It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” C.S. Lewis Job’s friends approached him with simple human logic.
“Job 27:12: “Behold, all of you yourselves have seen (it), why then are you altogether vain?” Often when I am a guest speaker in a group or church I will hand out envelops to members of my audience. Each envelop contains a Hebrew word and an explanation of that word within the context of
“Job 27:12: “Behold, all of you yourselves have seen (it), why then are you altogether vain?” “If the judge should say to the man, ‘Take the splinter from between your eye.’ He would reply: ‘Take the beam from your between your eye.’” Babylonian Talmud Baba Bathra 15b. “And why beholdest thou the
Psalms 138:7: “Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.” One of my readers sent me an article from the book Streams in the Desert by L.B. Cowman. This is
Romans 8:28: “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to [his] purpose.” You can’t be a Christian very long before you are introduced to this verse. Whenever a tragedy happens you can always count on someone saying: “Well,
Genesis 12:14: “And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she [was] very fair.” Many years ago when I was attending a secular college I was in sociology class and the discussion of beauty came up. There was one female student who did
