Psalm: 70 Meditation: GenWhen Abraham’s beloved Sarah dies, he enters into a negotiation to purchase a cave and plot/field to bury her. While he pays an excessive price, Abram is showing his faith in God’s promise that this whole land would belong to his descendants forever. This deed was binding and recorded as an unimpeachable …
Tag: Abraham
Friday, February 3
Psalm: 40 Meditation: GenHave you ever pondered the faith of Abraham? When God told him to do something he accepted and did it. How would you respond if God spoke to you directly? Would you believe God if He told you that your 90 year old wife would have a child in a year? One …
Tuesday, January 31
Psalm: 45 Meditation: GenWhy was Abram’s belief counted to him as righteousness? How does our faith today assure us of the same thing? Some people that know the history of Israel see aspects of this passage as prophetic to both Abram’s life and the rise and salvation of the Israelites. Abram had been blessed in …
Saturday, January 28
Psalm: 30 Meditation: GenHave you ever noticed the highs and lows of righteousness, faith and courage of the heroes of the Bible? Abraham traveled across the Middle East and with 318 men defeated the armies of multiple kings. He is then so fearful of Egypt’s king that he tells his wife to say she is …
Sunday, June 26
Psalm: 118 Meditation: RomansAbraham was justified by faith; by believing in God and the promises that God had made to him and to his family. No act or work made Abraham worthy of God’s love or forgiveness. We often see people try to work through a checklist of all the good things that they can …
Saturday, April 16
Psalms: 88, 95 Meditation Job: For a limited time, Job’s life was fraught with misery. In chapters 1-2 Job went from sublime prosperity and progeny (he had 10 adult children) and in the course of a day, he lost it all. Job’s attitude? “The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away.” (1:21) This passage …
Friday, April 15
Psalms 22, 95 Meditation Genesis: This is the first portrayal of the act of redemption – one life sacrificed in place of another. Centuries later on Calvary this same scene will be carried out only this time it will be God’s only Son – one perfect life offered for many imperfect ones. “Now I know …
Tuesday, March 22
Psalm: 62 Meditation Romans: At age 75 Abraham received the promise of Isaac and the land of Canaan as an inheritance. Abraham and Sarah had to wait another 25 years before the miraculous birth of Isaac. Abraham and Sarah were as good as dead when it came to child-bearing and laughter (meaning “Isaac”). But Abraham …
Wednesday, February 2
Psalm: 91 Meditation Galatians: I have often wondered of how much interest Jewish history was to the newly converted Galatians. How could they appreciate or identify with Abraham, Hagar and Mount Sinai? I don’t think they can any more than we. Albeit, we are children of the free woman, as it were, “born from above. …
Sunday, January 30
Psalms: 136 Meditation Hebrews: Because he is the father of the faithful, Abraham is held here before us as an example. And why not? He was 75 when called by God to pull up stakes in the city of Ur and just follow God’s lead. So, like a nomad, he and his family eventually made …
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