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Song of Songs 8:6 “Place me as a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like a blazing fire, like a mighty flame” (NIV). Observation: The love depicted in Song of Songs has previously...

These Are Easy Things

2 Kings 3:18 “This is but a slight thing in the sight of the Lord.” Observation: The immediate context of this statement is Elisha’s confidence that it would be an easy thing for the Lord, without using wind or rain, to fill a desert valley with water for the men and...

The Strategy of Abandonment

2 Corinthians 2:1 “I made up my mind that I would not make another painful visit to you” (NIV). Observation: Much of 2 Corinthians 1 and the beginning of the second chapter seem to be travelogue. Paul wrote in 1:15 about having tried to arrange his itinerary so as to...

The Heart of the King

2 Samuel 18:33 “The king was deeply moved and went to the chamber over the gate and wept.  And thus he said as he walked, ‘O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!  Would I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son!’” Observation: Hear the broken heart of a father...

The Father’s Model

Ephesians 3:14-15 “For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name.” Observation: Paul had been expanding the concept of the body of Christ, enlarging it to include not only Jews who believe, but...