Psalm: 90 Meditation John: Here Jesus reminds us that at His first coming He did not come to judge. The major clue He gives us is: “The one who rejects Me and does not receive My word has a judge; on the last day the word that I have spoken will serve as judge…” (v. …
Tag: Jesus
Wednesday, September 22
Psalm: 119:121-144 Meditation John: The Greeks spoken of here were probably God-fearers. These are Gentiles who have come to faith in the God of Israel, but just short of circumcision. These Greeks wanted to see Jesus – what better way than through Philip. Philip was all but a sacred and feared name among Greeks. (Philip …
Sunday, September 19
Psalms: 121, 122, 123 Meditation Matthew: This reading is taken from the so-called “Sermon on the Mount”. This is perhaps, the third most familiar writing in Scripture after The Lord’s Prayer (interestingly, also imbedded in this Sermon) followed by the 23rd Psalm. The danger here is that if one hears something so much, after a …
Thursday, September 16
Psalms: 138, 146 Meditation John: It cannot have been a surprise to Jesus that once He got to Bethany that Lazarus had been dead for four days. (He actually mentioned it to His disciples.) After all, Jesus was on the east side of the Jordan in, very likely a place called Perea. As we see, …
Monday, September 13
Psalms: 147, 150 Meditation John: Sometimes I think that the “Jews”, or what I believe to mean the scribes, priests, and not all the Pharisees – or as it were, the elders, follow Jesus around with the sole purpose of trapping Him. I prefer to think that they are really seeking the Truth. Jesus tells …
Saturday, September 11
Psalms: 62, 64 Meditation Acts: Paul and Barnabas are in a place called Antioch of Pisidia (a region in central Asia Minor – not to be confused with Antioch in Syria where the term Christian was first coined). Paul and Barnabas, whenever they went to a new city, first went to the local synagogue. That …
Tuesday, September 7
Psalm: 83 Meditation John: Here Jesus is speaking to the Jews who had believed in Him. (v. 31) Good to know who is speaking. John tells us that these Jews had believed in Him. As we continue, we will see they believe no longer. “I know that you are descendants of Abraham; yet you look …
Thursday, September 2
Psalm: 136 Meditation Acts: Sometimes we need to experience something before we can fully understand it. In Mark 7, Jesus makes it clear that it is not what a man eats that defiles him. Peter was with the Lord when He said that, but it isn’t until Peter had this vision (3 times [for the …
Wednesday, September 1
Psalm: 119:1-24 Meditation John: Much of what Jesus said and did was in private. The Apostle John indicates as he closes his gospel (vs. 21:24-25) “But there are also many other things that Jesus did; if every one of them were written down, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that …
Saturday, August 28
Psalm: 40 Meditation John: Jesus is still talking about bread. Here, He proclaims that He is “the bread of life that comes down from heaven.” (v. 48) Jesus then makes a contrast between “the bread that comes down from heaven” and the manna in the wilderness. Exodus 16 talks of manna sometimes called “angel’s food.” …
