by David Keesling | Jun 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
Psalm 11:3 “When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do?” Observation: This verse, either spoken by David’s friends or perhaps by a whispering enemy seeking to wear down his faith, reflects the stress David experienced as Saul and...
by David Keesling | Jun 4, 2013 | Uncategorized
Ecclesiastes 11:2 “Give portions to seven, yes to eight, for you do not know what disaster might come upon the land.” Observation: In this and surrounding verses, Solomon presses me to be liberal to the poor, generous in meeting the needs of others. Verse...
by David Keesling | Jun 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
Psalm 20:3(a) “May He remember all your sacrifices.” Observation: Psalm 20 opens as a prayer for David. We aren’t told who is doing the praying…it may be priests who regularly surrounded David, or perhaps family and friends. But their prayers were the sort...
by David Keesling | Jun 2, 2013 | Uncategorized
Genesis 4:7 “If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master it.” Observation: God here addresses Cain, who had become “very...
by David Keesling | Jun 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
Genesis 2:3(b) “…on it (the seventh day) He rested from all His work.” Observation: In seven days God had unleashed unimaginable creative powers. Things inanimate that had never before existed (earth and sky, dry land and seas, stars sufficient to...
by David Keesling | May 31, 2013 | Uncategorized
Genesis 15:6 “Abram believed the Lord, and He credited it to him as righteousness.” Observation: The Lord in v. 1 had come to Abram to assure him that “I…am your very great reward.” Abram’s response was to ask how that was possible since Abram...
