At the beginning of the new year, we may scoff at setting New Year’s Resolutions, but why do we feel the need to make them in the first place? How can we we receive that fresh start we want from the inside out?
Tag: hope
Lamedh – v89-95
Worship doesn’t just happen. Our highest worship of God begins with bowing down, being brought low. Join us as we follow this psalmist’s life journey of affliction and confidence in God’s Shepherding love in the next four verses of Ps 119:89-95.
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CAPH–כ Unanswered Prayer, Pt. II
I don’t understand why my prayers have not been answered, but Caph (Proverbs 119:81-88) gives me at least six steps I can take to keep the lifelines open to me in my confusion and despair.
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Yes, It’s True!
My rote memory is not what it should or could be (or will be), but my life memory is well-grooved by this psalm. It has changed me in the midst of most difficult times, and has brought joy to me in the best times. As I began to wrap up this study of the goodness of God, I re-read the paraphrased prayer of TET for the millionth time, and was struck anew by the truth of every line of it. It rings with lived out experience, the psalmists and my own. Yes, it is all true. It is all so gloriously true!
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What would God require if I did believe?
What happens if I accept this good news? In the past few posts on the goodness of God in the midst of an evil world, the answer…… Read more “What would God require if I did believe?”
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The Scandal of Slander (Teth)
65You have dealt well with your servant, O LORD, according to your word. 66Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments. 67Before I was…… Read more “The Scandal of Slander (Teth)”
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And, behold, he goes before you
He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see…go quickly, and tell…that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goes before…… Read more “And, behold, he goes before you”
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Habakkuk’s Song, Pt. II
God is terrifying, if we understand Him correctly. It is when we take God for granted, when we dismiss Him as a great and distant Clockmaker, or a figment of our “wishful thinking”–an entity that is better left to think of “later”–that our destruction begins.
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Habakkuk’s Pen
“Then the LORD answered me: ‘Write down this vision and clearly inscribe it on tablets, so that a herald may run with it. For the vision awaits…… Read more “Habakkuk’s Pen”
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Habakkuk’s Tower
“I will stand on my watch, and set me on the tower, and will watch to see what he will say to me, and what I will…… Read more “Habakkuk’s Tower”
