Do you ever question if the Bible is still relevant today? Have you found yourself in a conversation trying to defend God’s Word to someone who thinks it’s just an old-fashioned book of myths and stories that has no application or connection to our modern-day sensibilities? Well, I beg to differ. God is eternal and …
Under His Wings
I love how the created world reflects God’s character and His relationship with His creation. There is one picture of God that is repeated several times in Psalms that is a vivid illustration of His care and concern for us. It is the idea of finding refuge under His wings. Psalm 17:8 – Keep me …
Words of Hope and Warning
I’ve never thought of Psalm 50 as a “prophetic” psalm, but as I read it this morning, I can’t help but connect the words to God’s future judgment of the world. It begins as God, the Mighty One, Jehovah speaks, summoning the heavens and the earth to appear before Him. His appearance is that of …
God Sees
Despite the fact that Job likely lived in the time of the patriarchs, I don’t think it’s a coincidence that his story appears in the Bible right before the book of Psalms. Chuck Swindoll gives us some good reasons to believe that Job lived around the time of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (source here). Chronologically, …
Will We Come Out As Gold?
I have made it into the book of Job on my “read-through-the-Bible-in-180-days” journey. I have always found this book to be a little hard to understand and have learned by experience that you can’t really have many takeaways until you get to the end of the story and get God’s perspective on all that has …
