Do you ever feel like God isn’t listening to you, even though you are constantly crying out to Him to do something about the circumstances of your life? The children of Israel must have had moments when they felt like God had forgotten them. The 70 members of Joseph’s family that he brought to live …
Tag: Hope
Hope In Despair
Psalm 43 is entitled a “prayer for deliverance.” Isn’t that what we are longing for today? To be delivered from all the confusion and uncertainty of what’s happening in our world right now? We need deliverance on all accounts, both as a nation in turmoil, and in our personal lives in a hundred different ways. …
What To Do When You’re Overwhelmed
What do you do when life overwhelms your soul? When your spirit fails? When your heart faints? Psalm 143 describes David’s thoughts at just such a time. David was a man who felt things deeply, but he also reasoned through his emotions. This is one reason why we all find such comfort in the Psalms …
What’s On Your Passport?
Galatians 1:3-5 – Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for our sins so that He might rescue us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, to whom be the glory forevermore. Amen. Colossians 1:13 – For He …
Are You Righteous?
Are you righteous? Proverbs 1-9 is an invitation to live wisely and follow the commands of God. These passages compare the benefit of wisdom against the foolishness and folly of rejecting God’s ways. Proverbs 10 appears to open a second section, and switches topics. For the next nine chapters, we will contrast the upright/righteous man …
