Psalm: 119:1-24 Meditation Daniel: Belshazzar, son or, more likely, grandson of King Nebuchadnezzar, was entertaining all the nobles of his kingdom – about 1,000 in all. Suddenly a human hand (and I imagine it to be gigantic so that all could see it) appeared and wrote a strange (i.e., foreign) and ominous message on the …
Tag: Luke 4
Tuesday, April 28
Psalm: 39 Meditation 1 John: Much is mentioned of love in this passage. This is not the Danielle Steel kind of romantic love. Love is here defined as God sending His Son to be an atoning sacrifice for us – nothing in it for God. His kind of love is the type that gives a …
Monday, April 27
Psalm: 25 Meditation Luke: Here Jesus goes to his hometown of Nazareth and manages to talk himself into being tossed off the local precipice. In the town’s synagogue he was delivered the scroll of the prophet Isaiah and he searched for and found the passage which he identified with himself (Is. 61:1-2). The chilling moment …
Saturday, April 25
Psalm: 21 Meditation 1 John: Here John explains what it means to love our brothers – not with words so much as by actions and, in truth, this passage echoes what James says in his epistle in verses 2:14-26. Love involves more than just words it demands actions often using no words at all. “This …
