In you, O LORD, do I take refuge;let me never be put to shame;in your righteousness deliver me!Incline your ear to me;rescue me speedily!Be a rock of refuge for me,a strong fortress to save me!For you are my rock and my fortress;and for your name’s sake you lead me and guide me;you take me outContinue reading “Psalm 31: 1-5…..You are so much to me.”
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Psalm 30: 6-12…Another ‘down’ cycle.
As for me, I said in my prosperity,“I shall never be moved.”By your favour, O LORD,you made my mountain stand strong;you hid your face;I was dismayed.To you, O LORD, I cry,and to the Lord I plead for mercy:“What profit is there in my death,if I go down to the pit?Will the dust praise you?Will itContinue reading “Psalm 30: 6-12…Another ‘down’ cycle.”
Psalm 30: 1-5…..Something causes David to think.
I will extol you, O LORD, for you have drawn me upand have not let my foes rejoice over me.O LORD my God, I cried to you for help,and you have healed me.O LORD, you have brought up my soul from Sheol;you restored me to life from among those who go down to the pit.SingContinue reading “Psalm 30: 1-5…..Something causes David to think.”
Psalm 29: 1-11…. The poet’s mind wanders!
Ascribe to the LORD, O heavenly beings,ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name;worship the LORD in the splendour of holiness.The voice of the LORD is over the waters;the God of glory thunders,the LORD, over many waters.The voice of the LORD is powerful;the voice of the LORD isContinue reading “Psalm 29: 1-11…. The poet’s mind wanders!”
Psalm 28: 1 & 6-9….The assurance of faith.
To you, O LORD, I call;my rock, be not deaf to me,lest, if you be silent to me,I become like those who go down to the pit….. Blessed be the LORD!For he has heard the voice of my pleas for mercy.The LORD is my strength and my shield;in him my heart trusts, and I amContinue reading “Psalm 28: 1 & 6-9….The assurance of faith.”
Psalm 28: 1-5…..A way to avoid.
To you, O LORD, I call;my rock, be not deaf to me,lest, if you be silent to me,I become like those who go down to the pit.Hear the voice of my pleas for mercy,when I cry to you for help,when I lift up my handstoward your most holy sanctuary.Do not drag me off with theContinue reading “Psalm 28: 1-5…..A way to avoid.”
2 Peter 2: 17-22….Strong words, indeed!
These are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm. For them the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved. For, speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely escaping from those who live in error. They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves ofContinue reading “2 Peter 2: 17-22….Strong words, indeed!”
2 Peter 2: 10b-16….Strong language, indeed!
Bold and wilful, they do not tremble as they blaspheme the glorious ones, whereas angels, though greater in might and power, do not pronounce a blasphemous judgment against them before the Lord. But these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheming about matters of which they are ignorant, willContinue reading “2 Peter 2: 10b-16….Strong language, indeed!”
2 Peter 2: 4-10a….Examples provided.
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the worldContinue reading “2 Peter 2: 4-10a….Examples provided.”
2 Peter 2: 1-3….So what’s new?
But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed. And inContinue reading “2 Peter 2: 1-3….So what’s new?”
As I read it! 