“Better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs, rather than a fool in his folly,” PROVERBS 17:12 A bear robbed of her cubs is mad as hell, and with good reason. A bear has a gestation period of just over 200 days and most bears have a liter of 2-3 cubs. The American Bear …
PSALM 57 – 6/29/21 In Frank McCourt’s riveting book Angela’s Ashes, he describes his squalid childhood in Ireland. At least one child was born to his poor Catholic parents every year for years without end – their house crawled with sickly, hungry, hollow-eyed children. At one point they dwelt in a two-story rental. Every miserable …
PROVERBS 17:5 “He who mocks the poor reproaches his Maker; he who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished.” We all love it when Karma does her work. ( as formerly blogged on https://tribalminded.com/2021/02/24/gloating-karma-is-a-bitch.) We love the concept that what goes around comes around. Rare is the person who would not chuckle at their …
I will trust in you. A mediation on Psalm 56 We last left David wishing that he had the wing of a dove so he could flee to the wilderness and find rest. You know you are hard up when your desire is to flee to a desert for refuge! Here we meet him singing …
5 Problems with Misunderstanding the Work-Eat Relationship “The person who labors, labors for himself, for his hungry mouth drives him on,” Pr. 16:26 NKJV God has intricately connected two basic concepts: working and eating. We know that when God sets up a principle, the enemy sets up a perversion. Most perversions are insidious. The one …
PSALM 55:12-23 – 6/23/21 “If an enemy were insulting me, I could endure it; if a foe were rising against me, I could hide. But it is you, a man like myself, my companion, my close friend, with whom I once enjoyed sweet fellowship at the house of God, as we walked about among the …
Five Tips to Go From Dream to Plan PROVERBS 16:1-16 – 6/22/21 “The preparations of the heart belong to man…” Proverbs 16:1a Because we are created in God’s image, like him, we are planners. We love to do, to make arrangements, to make things happen. What a glorious trait. What a great responsibility. We alter …
PSALM 55:1-11 – 6/21/21 “Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication. Attend unto me, and hear me,” vs. 1 and 2a. Worse than any dread and distress David faces, is the thought that God would abandon him. So right off the bat David entreats God three times. “Do …
“ENOUGH IS AS GOOD AS A FEAST, TO ONE THAT’S NOT A BEAST” “Better a little with the fear of the Lord than great wealth with turmoil. Better a small serving of vegetables with love than a fattened calf with hatred,” Pr. 15:16, 17. Sure, great wealth is more appealing than leanness of the pocket; a …
That’s how my fantastic father-in-law Jim punctuates his profound sentences. It tickles my heart every time. I don’t want to promote smoking, so I need your help coming up with another wonderful phrase to say, “so there!” This morning I started off ready to dive into our devotion of Psalm 50 and immediately snagged on …