Are you ever distressed in the midst of your circumstances and feel that God is nowhere near? Do you feel afflicted and alone, seemingly cut off from heaven in the midst of your trials? We ought never be surprised that trouble comes. The patriarch, Job, tells us that “man is born to trouble as theContinue reading “Reflecting on God’s Mighty Deeds”
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Seeing as God Sees
The key to a successful life is seeing things the way that God sees them and then following his way. Why is it important to see as God sees? There are two reasons. First, the “whole world lieth in the power of the evil one” (I John 5:19). Christ tells us this evil one, Satan,Continue reading “Seeing as God Sees”
The People Complained
There were many occasions during the time that the Lord was leading the children of Israel through the wilderness that they complained to Moses. On one occasion Miriam (Moses’ sister) and Aaron rebelled against Moses for not sharing his leadership saying “Hath the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses? Hath he not spoken also byContinue reading “The People Complained”
Job’s Example of Suffering
We are familiar with the character Job in the Bible. God permitted Satan to persecute Job with the loss of family, possessions, and health in order to move Job to sin against God. Yet Job would not charge God with wrong doing. Even so, God used this trial to teach Job to rest in hisContinue reading “Job’s Example of Suffering”
To the Law and to the Testimony
Early in the week of Jesus’ crucifixion, the gospel writer Luke records an incident that merits our attention today. “And he [Jesus] went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold therein, and them that bought; saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer; but ye haveContinue reading “To the Law and to the Testimony”
This Is Our God
The Psalmist had this testimony pertaining to God. “He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto GOD the Lord belong the issues from death” (Psalm 68:20). In this brief statement he addresses a singular distinction about God compared to the false gods of the world. He testifies that our God isContinue reading “This Is Our God”
The Parable of the Pounds
As Jesus was nearing Jerusalem prior to the week of his crucifixion, our Lord spoke a parable “because they [his disciples] thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear” (Luke 19:11). The disciples eagerly anticipated that Jesus, their Messiah, would deliver them from Rome and establish his kingdom. They did not figure on JesusContinue reading “The Parable of the Pounds”
God’s Viewpoint
God sent the prophet Samuel to the house of Jesse to anoint Saul’s replacement when he determined to remove Saul from his kingship over Israel. At the time Samuel did not know who the new king would be. When Samuel saw Eliab, Jesse’s son, he said “Surely the LORD’s anointed is before him” (I SamuelContinue reading “God’s Viewpoint”
To Know Jesus Is To Know God
Have you ever tried to contemplate what can be known of God? An acquaintance of Job, Elihu, while rebuking him made this statement about God: “Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out” (Job 37:23). His point was that God is far beyond our limited human comprehension and no amount of searching on our partContinue reading “To Know Jesus Is To Know God”
Christ Died For Our Sins
Many think that Jesus died as some kind of martyr. Others think that he was the unfortunate victim of a miscarriage of justice. But we can be assured from the Scriptures that Christ was no martyr though he did die purposefully. Nor was his death merely the result of injustice on the part of theContinue reading “Christ Died For Our Sins”
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