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“Why are you so angry?” the LORD asked Cain. “Why do you look so dejected? You will be accepted if you do what is right. But if you refuse to do what is right, then watch out! Sin is crouching at the door, eager to control you. But you must subdue it and be itsContinue reading “Cain and Abel”

We can make our own plans, but the LORD gives the right answer. People may be pure in their own eyes, but the LORD examines their motives. Commit your actions to the LORD, and your plans will succeed.                                                                                                   Proverbs 16:1-3 NLT As we look at the year ahead, it is perfectly normal toContinue reading “Plans”

“I have a plan for the whole earth, a hand of judgment upon all the nations.” The LORD of Heaven’s Armies has spoken — who can change his plans? When his hand is raised, who can stop him?              Isaiah 14:26-27 NLT In Isaiah chapter 14, the phrase “Yahweh of Heaven’s Armies” appears four timesContinue reading “Yahweh of Heaven’s Armies Has Spoken”

Though he was God,he did not think of equality with God as something to cling to. Instead, he gave up his divine privileges; he took the humble position of a slaveand was born as a human being. When he appeared in human form, he humbled himself in obedience to God and died a criminal’s deathContinue reading “What Did He Do?”

But as he considered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream.  Matthew 1:20 ESV Why did God speak to Joseph, Jesus’ earthly father, in dreams? He spoke directly to Mary through Gabriel. He gave a vision to Zechariah. But he spoke to Joseph, not once, but four timesContinue reading “Dreams”

“What are humans that you pay any attention to them at all?                                                                           Psalm 8:4 JNO I sat in my study and looked at a miniscule centipede wandering across the floor, and wondered, “What is it thinking?” Then I thought how great the gap was between it and me, its brain and mine, and suddenlyContinue reading “Thoughts on a Centipede”

Transgression speaks to the wicked deep in his heart; there is no fear of God before his eyes.                                                                                                                                         Psalm 36:1 ESV Have mercy on me,O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.                                                                                                Psalm 51:1 ESV “Transgression” is the third of the three most commonContinue reading “Don’t Fence Me In”

Therefore, thus says the Holy One of Israel, “Because you despise this word and trust in oppression and perverseness and rely on them, therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach in a high wall, bulging out and about to collapse, whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant.                 Isaiah 30:12-13 ESV “Iniquity” (Heb.Continue reading “Just Get Over IT”

Everyone who sins is breaking God’s law, for all sin is contrary to the law of God. 1 John 3:4 NLT Unlike their neighbors, the Israelites knew that fellowship with God depended on how well they followed his instructions. Thus, they had nearly a dozen terms to express the various aspects of failure to doContinue reading “Don’t Miss the Target”

We know we have rebelled and have denied the LORD. We have turned our backs on our God. We know how unfair and oppressive we have been, carefully planning our deceitful lies.              Isaiah 59:13 NLT “…God, who ‘requires truth in the inward parts” hates all hypocrisy, falsehood, and deceit.”[1] This statement gets at the heartContinue reading “Lies”