Joshua 3:5; And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.” I will usually start my evening/morning study reading my Hebrew Bible. When I reach a verse that seems interesting I will check it out in my English translation. Sometimes when I compare my
Ecclesiastes 3:11: “He hath made everything beautiful in His time.” “I think I am beginning to understand it.” Pierre Augusta Renoir The great impressionist painter, Renoir, was fascinated with beauty and spent his life trying to understand what made something beautiful. An impressionist painter devoted him or herself to a study of beauty.
Psalm 34:4: “I sought the LORD, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.” The way this passage is translated always bothered me. “I sought the Lord and he answered me.” If you are seeking you find, if you are asking you get an answer. Every translation says I
Deuteronomy 11:26: “ Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse.” Matthew 7:13-14: “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow is the way that
Psalms 36:7: “How excellent is your lovingkindness O’ God! Therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.” “Who know what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!” Lamont Cranston – The Shadow. Salal is a Hebrew word that has haunted me for
Psalms 34:2: “My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear [thereof], and be glad.” I find the contrast to be quite interesting. The soul will boast and the humble will be glad. I don’t know about but I am never glad when I hear someone boasting. I find
Psalm 34:3: “My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear [thereof], and be glad.” I have a friend who told me I am very self-absorbed. I know, praise the Lord that I have a friend who will tell me like it is. After much soul searching I found
I Samuel 30:6: “And Dave was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved every man for his sons and his daughters but David encouraged himself in the Lord.” We all know this story. David returns with his few followers after trying to
Psalms 34:1 “[A Psalm] of David, when he changed his behaviour before Abimelech; who drove him away, and he departed. I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise [shall] continually [be] in my mouth.” “I will bless the Lord at all times.” Them are pretty heady words. To bless the
Leviticus 25:11: “A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather [the grapes] in it of thy vine undressed.” When I hear the word jubilee my mind automatically goes back to a time when I was about five
