Living with Pricks and Thorns

Living with Pricks and Thorns

Numbers 33:52–53, 55 “You shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured stones, and destroy all their molten images and demolish all their high places; and you shall take possession of the land and live in it, for I...
Vows

Vows

Numbers 30:2–4 “If a man makes a vow to the Lord, or takes an oath to bind himself with a binding obligation, he shall not violate his word. … Also if a woman makes a vow to the Lord, and binds herself … in her father’s house in her youth, and her father hears her...
Remaining in the Desert

Remaining in the Desert

Numbers 14:2–3 “All the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron; and the whole congregation said to them, ‘Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness! Why is the Lord bringing us into this land, to fall by the...
One Thing

One Thing

Psalm 27:4 “One thing I ask of the Lord, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple” (NIV). Observation: Psalm 27 exudes David’s confident faith in the Lord....
The Deep

The Deep

Genesis 1:1–2 “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep …” Observation: Time now begins. The uncreated, eternal God who had ‘til now communed within Himself as Father, Son...
Who Is Lord?

Who Is Lord?

Acts 25:26 “Yet I have nothing definite about him to write to my lord.” Observation: Festus had a real problem on his hands. Paul had come into the Roman justice system for discipline, yet Rome’s representative had to confess to King Agrippa that he had no meaty...