Psalm 9:10: “And they that know your name will put their trust in you. For thou O Lord hast not forsaken those who seek thee.” A name in our culture is quite different than a name in the ancient culture. Today a child is given a name by the parents because they like
Psalms 8:2: “Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies that thou mightest still the enemy and avenger. Matthew 21:16: “And he said unto them, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus said, yea, have you not read: Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings
Psalms 46:4 “[There is] a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God. I am packed and leaving the Catskills. There is something very unsettling deep within my spirit. I hear myself crying out, “Oh God, are you going to leave me now that I am leaving this place of
Hebrew 13:2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. As I drove out of the Catskill mountains into a little town about fifteen miles outside the Catskills, I reflected on the verse in Hebrews 13:2 about entertaining angels unawares. The word in the Greek that is rendered as
Jeremiah 1:6, “Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I cannot speak: for I [am] a child.” One of the great lessons that the Catskills have been teaching me is just how small and insignificant I am in light of this great beauty of majesty of God’s creation. I wonder if He could ever use
Mathew 22:30, “For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.” I just laid down in the woods in the interior of the Catskills mountains after a time of repentance and once again experienced the joy of the cleansing power of
Jeremiah 17:9, “The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked: who can know it?” Boy, Jeremiah loved that word deceitful. Here it is again. Only unlike Jeremiah 20:7 where he uses the word patah which is rendered as deceived in many translations but has more of the idea of being seduced or
Ps 98:8 Let the floods clap [their] hands: let the hills be joyful together. Let me share with you something interesting as I read my Hebrew Bible sitting here by a stream flowing from the mountain. The word for floods in Hebrew is naharot which comes from the root word nahar which means
Jeremiah 20:7, “O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me.” Most modern translations will say that the Lord deceived Jeremiah. Some will say he was misled, others that he was seduced, persuaded or enticed.
1Samuel 17:40, “And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd’s bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling [was] in his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine.” This morning was a perfect
