A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished. – Proverbs 27:2 Where is this thing going? If I stay on this trajectory, where am I likely to end up? What’s the real game being played around me? If X is true and Y is true, what …
Monthly Archives: February 2020
Lions in the street
The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets. – Proverbs 26:13 Of course there’s a lion in the street. Probably more than one. And the reason they’re there is to scare away those who can’t be bothered to kill them. You’ve got what it takes to …
Are you in the dark, or are you in the darkroom?
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. – Genesis 1:2 The Hebrew word for darkness is the same word for obscurity. Chôsek. “Darkness, obscurity and secret place”. Right from the beginning, God shows …
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Don’t be casual about it
But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every one of you this day. – Deuteronomy 4:4 Cleave. Cling to. Stick to. Adhere strongly to. Remain true to. Be faithful to. Become very strongly involved with or emotionally attached to (someone). That’s the posture you need to have towards your relationship …
Fight for it
Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses. – 1 Timothy 6:12 When Israel crossed over the river Jordan into the Promised Land, they entered into a new experience of warfare. God had fought for them to bring …
It’s not about the healing
And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people. – Matthew 4:23 The healing is what gets everybody’s attention. But the secret ingredient is not the healing. Instead, it’s the teaching and preaching …