Confronted by the Mirror

1 Kings 17:18 “You have come to me to bring my iniquity to remembrance.” 1 Kings 18:17 “Is this you, you troubler of Israel?” Observation: The contrast of heart attitude in these two passages could hardly be more profound. The widow of 1 Kings 17 was a pagan widow to...

Attractive Humility

Genesis 13:8-9 “So Abram said to Lot, ‘Please let there be no strife between you and me…for we are brothers. Is not the whole land before you? Please separate from me; if to the left, then I will go to the right, or if to the right, then I will go to the left.’”...

Wrong Questions

Ephesians 5:8 “For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord.” Observation: Paul has just encouraged the Ephesians to “be imitators of God…as dearly loved children…” (Verse 5:1) We are told to be a “fragrant offering” (Verse 2), and to carry not so...

What’s in the West Wing?

Genesis 9:22-23 “Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father’s nakedness and told his two brothers outside. But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father’s nakedness” (NIV). Observation:...

Too Close for Comfort

2 Chronicles 18:18-22 “I saw the Lord sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing on His right and on His left. The Lord said, ‘Who will entice Ahab king of Israel to go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’..And one said this while another said that. Then a...