He struck the rock so that water gushed outand streams overflowed.Can he also give breador provide meat for his people?” – This verse ended yesterday’s reading. It refers to the story in Numbers 20: 1-13 of Moses disobedience to do what God said in frustrated anger! Remember also that this whole Psalm is Asaph (writingContinue reading “Psalm 78 : 20-31….A thing not to copy – Complaining!”
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Isaiah 36: 21- 37: 7….God is Upset!
21 But they were silent and answered him not a word, for the king’s command was, “Do not answer him.” 22 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him theContinue reading “Isaiah 36: 21- 37: 7….God is Upset!”
Psalm 73: 9-17….What if I give in?
9 They set their mouths against the heavens,and their tongue struts through the earth. – Yesterday we ended with a person trying to fool us that God isn’t important in life. Success and wealth and status are the important thing10 Therefore his people turn back to them,and find no fault in them.11 And they say,Continue reading “Psalm 73: 9-17….What if I give in?”
Psalm 60: 1-12….A psalm which requires historical and geographical Knowledge.
1 O God, you have rejected us, broken our defenses;you have been angry; oh, restore us.2 You have made the land to quake; you have torn it open;repair its breaches, for it totters.3 You have made your people see hard things;you have given us wine to drink that made us stagger. – Comment: David commencesContinue reading “Psalm 60: 1-12….A psalm which requires historical and geographical Knowledge.”
Isaiah 10: 27-34….A victory song backed by history!
27 And in that day his burden will depart from your shoulder, and his yoke from your neck; and the yoke will be broken because of the fat.” Comment: Adding to poetry with a bit of historical fact! The promise of God to the remnant returning to Jerusalem is that the oppression (burden) placed onContinue reading “Isaiah 10: 27-34….A victory song backed by history!”
Mark 7: 24-30….A test of Faith.
And from there he arose and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered a house and did not want anyone to know, yet he could not be hidden. But immediately a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard of him and came and fell down at his feet.Continue reading “Mark 7: 24-30….A test of Faith.”
Psalm 44: 1-8….Light means Understanding?
1 O God, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us, what deeds you performed in their days, in the days of old: – Way back at the beginning of the OT in Deuteronomy 6 v7-9 God says “You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them whenContinue reading “Psalm 44: 1-8….Light means Understanding?”
Exodus 30: 34-31: 11….God provides.
The LORD said to Moses, “Take sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum, sweet spices with pure frankincense (of each shall there be an equal part), and make an incense blended as by the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy. You shall beat some of it very small, and put part of it beforeContinue reading “Exodus 30: 34-31: 11….God provides.”