We are so fortunate to have the Bible available, and sometimes, forget the people we read about were recording the power of God as it was demonstrated in their lives. The New Testament was written in the years following the…
Surviving the Storm
Tag: August
She Will Give Birth to a Son
We know love as it happens between a man and a woman or as we have it as parents for our children and we know it can be strong and sometimes raises a passionate defense to protect our loved ones.…
I Belong To My Beloved
From the beginning, God made a man and a woman as one together in Genesis 2:23 And the man said, “She is now bone from my bones and flesh from my flesh; she shall be called ‘Woman,’ for she was…
Catch The Little Foxes
Throughout the Song of Solomon, the language between the two lovers is elaborate, maybe overstated, maybe even exaggerated, yet they are each using positive, affirming and encouraging words. They are expressing their love for each other and there is no…
Remember Your Creator
Life in this world is serious business and we are well served by seeking and applying all of the wisdom we can find. It says in Ecclesiastes 10:1 “a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor” so what we say and…
I Said “I Will Be Wise!”
We are born as creative and inquisitive beings, in the image of God. Yet, this very nature, separated from God, can lead to destruction. The simplest misfortune is one that is so taken by wealth or possessions or honor that…
This Also Is A Gift of God
Though there is much for us to learn about the world around us and there is much we can learn from the past, in Ecclesiastes 3:11 “yet no one can grasp what God does from the beginning to the end”.…
There Is Nothing Better
Solomon was the wisest man of his time in 1 Kings 4:29–30 “God gave wisdom to Solomon and very great discernment, as well as breadth of understanding … greater than the wisdom of all the people of the east and…
How Did This Evil Act Occur
What should have been a night of hospitality among his brother Israelites for a traveling Levite and his party ends with the rape and death of his concubine. We may not accept this relationship, yet the man was her husband…
Each Did What Was Right In His Own Eyes
The children of Israel failed to possess the land of their inheritance and now God raises up men to help them as they live under oppression. Samson is born and raised a Nazirite of God, yet no one knows the…
Be Attentive To All That I Said
The children of Israel had been “in the hands of the Philistines forty years” in Judges 13:1 and the angel of the Lord comes to a woman that was infertile to raise up a deliverer. The angel tells her in…
What is Between You and Me
Jesus said in Luke 17:1 “It is impossible for causes for stumbling not to come, but woe to him through whom they come!” and here in Judges, we first have the rejection of Jephthah by his own people because in…
If You Have Acted In Good Faith
The Lord delivered Israel by the hand of Gideon and Israel has peace through the end of Gideon’s life but the people are not following God as their ruler as Gideon had said in Judges 8:23 But Gideon said to…
Yahweh Will Rule Over You
Israel was devastated as year after year, the people of the East came and stole their crops and flocks. The people were hiding, as was Gideon when the angel of the Lord appeared to him and called him to deliver…
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