Psalm: 89:1-18 Meditation: RevThere is an old Jewish saying “God never sleeps”. Some commentators have pointed to this passage as evidence that God will remember every injustice or suffering. Depending on someone’s end time views, these images may be separated by up to a thousand years. Either way , in the end the unjust will …
Tag: Remember
Saturday, March 5
Psalms: 12, 13 Meditation Deuteronomy: One of the first things Moses admonishes here is to remember. Years earlier shortly after the Jews had set out on their freedom journey, Moses’ had dispatched 12 spies to scope out the Promised Land. Ten of the 12 came back already defeated and dejected. This attitude affected all the …
Thursday, November 11
Psalm: 135 Meditation Ecclesiasticus: All throughout Scripture we are admonished to “remember”. The truth is we don’t, so occasionally we are given “boosters” to remind us. Most of the time we are exhorted to remember the law, or the word of God. In this case, Sirach delves into the lives of OT saints much as …
Tuesday, December 1
Psalm: 11, 15 Meditation 2 Peter: What are “these things” Peter speaks of in verse 12? Well, we have to cheat just a little. Go back to verses 5-7 to see what Peter is getting at. Throughout Peter exhorts his readers to remember: to keep in mind all that they had been taught. He is …
Thursday, November 26
Thanksgiving (US) Psalm: 65 Meditation James: “Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, Who does not change like sifting shadows.” (v. 17) Thanksgiving is that one civil holiday which impels us to be grateful to God for all His abundant blessing. We celebrate the Lord’s …
Wednesday, June 10
Psalm: 119:121-144 Meditation Deuteronomy: For our purposes the meaningful objective of the passage shows up in Deut. 31:19: ”Now write down for ourselves this song and teach it to the Israelites and have them the sing it, so that it may be a witness for me against them.” This ode is sung principally so the …
Friday, April 3
Psalms: 6, 95 Meditation Romans: ’Tis is a stern warning against complacency. We have seen how the Jews believed that they were chosen by God just by accident of birth. God, in essence, “got stuck with them” regardless of their lack of faith. Here Paul is warning the Gentiles that what can be given can …
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