Keeping commands preserves life: Defiance is a sure trait of trouble in the making. If you have a defiant child, your heart aches not only from their wanton disrespect and disobedience, but even more because you know for a fact that things will not go well for them. Rules seem to stifle and inhibit us, …
PSALMS 58 – 7/1/21 David seems to have entered the Princess Bride’s bog of perpetual misery in this section of the Psalms. It is easy for one who is at a peaceful place in life to say that these psalms are melding together. When one is in the crosshairs of an enemy, however, to him …
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 55:1-11 – 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 …
A devotional on Proverbs 7:6-27 Pr 7 NKJV – The Wiles of a Harlot – My son, keep my – Bible Gateway All temptation starts with a natural appetite and a desire/lust to fill it. The word ‘lust’ doesn’t necessarily have a negative connotation. It merely means desire. Desire is the focal point in temptation. …