by David Keesling | Aug 28, 2017 | Uncategorized
Ruth 3:4 “He will tell you what to do” (NIV). Observation: Ruth told Naomi, her widowed mother-in-law, that Boaz had been extraordinarily kind to them. Ruth gleaned Boaz’s fields after harvesters had done their work, and Boaz had gone out of his way to be both...
by David Keesling | Aug 27, 2017 | Uncategorized
Ruth 1:5: “Naomi was left without her two sons and her husband” (NIV). Observation: Naomi and Ruth’s story is a portrayal of loss, commitment, restoration, and divine provision. Naomi had gone with her family to live in Moab due to Bethlehem’s famine. There, her...
by David Keesling | Aug 26, 2017 | Uncategorized
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...
by David Keesling | Aug 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
Psalm 42:2 “When can I go and meet with God?” (NIV). Observation: This psalm expresses the passionate cry of David’s heart to once again be in the presence of God. David was exiled from the house of Saul, hiding in a very small country with 3,000 soldiers in pursuit....
by David Keesling | Aug 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
Jeremiah 29:11-13 “’For I know the plans that I have for You.’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. You will seek Me and find Me when...
by David Keesling | Aug 23, 2017 | Uncategorized
Jeremiah 27:6-11 “And now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant…It will be that the nation or the kingdom which will not…put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with the sword,...
