Throughout Proverbs, Solomon chooses perfectly expressive verbs to explain the personal, active relationship people must have with God’s wisdom – words like hear, receive, understand, treasure, make, incline, pursue…
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As seen in His temptation in the wilderness, His retreating into prayer alone with the Father, or His pleading before God in Gethsemane, Jesus committed Himself to private, undistracted time with God…
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The Psalms are replete with commands for us to praise God. I was recently reading Psalm 107, a psalm of rhythmic, repetitive thanksgiving. After reading, I attempted to use the psalm as a template for praising and thanking God for the life of our church…
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Think about a puzzle of a beautiful landscape. We can possibly get a sense of the whole picture from one puzzle piece, but the grandeur is missing. It is once all those pieces come together, one-by-one, often with great time and effort, that the majesty of the whole picture comes into view…
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Graciously, the Lord intervened. He impressed upon me to memorize Psalm 23. Once I had done so, I would recite that psalm numerous times each night until I remembered who I was in comparison to both the world and my Lord. The world may be a scary and imposing place at points but if I remember that I am a sheep and the Lord my Shepherd then it’s of no real concern to me…
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