Psalms: 20, 23 Meditation Malachi: I seldom consider Scripture addresses. When in the NT, all OT citations are made, but with one exception, without reference to chapter and verse. That was at a time before the chapters and verses were added (for convenience). All of that only to tell you the opening verses are so …
Tag: Scripture
Friday, November 19
Psalm: 56 Meditation James: Luther did not like this book and was in favor of removing it from Scripture. By his time the canon of Scripture had been settled for over a thousand years except for what are called the deuterocanonical (apocryphal) books. Verse 22 may be yet another thorn in Luther’s side. Think of …
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 …
Saturday, October 30
Psalm: 102 Meditation Sirach: Again, I hear echoes of Scripture throughout, and I see a mountain of common sense (which, today, appears to be all but missing). Could Sirach be a Calvinist? Perhaps. One can’t say “It was the LORD’s doing that I fell away.” Obvious and ludicrous. He also speaks somewhat of choice. “If …
Tuesday, July 13
Psalms: 56, 57 Meditation Matthew: I can’t begin to know what kind of mood Jesus was in when He unleashed this tirade on the scribes and Pharisees. One “woe” and “hypocrite” after another. Consider: why were the scribes and Pharisees singled out? Unfortunately, most Jews were illiterate – cold not read nor write. A scribe …
Thursday, December 3
Psalm: 21 Meditation Matthew: In this parable, one of the sons obeyed his father – it was the one who had said he would not go into the vineyard. This son was representative of “prostitutes and tax collectors”; whereas the other son who said he would go but did not represented the chief priests and …
Tuesday, November 10
Psalm: 78:1-39 Meditation Revelation: I have seen the like of this before in Scripture: the fall of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar. The description of the fall of Babylon has been found in virtually every epoch in history – if not to us then certainly to those who lived through it. Take Paris, for example, during the …
Gospel Meditation
The difference between knowing about God and knowing God is transformation. If simply collecting information about God changed us, then James would not have written: James 2:19 You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that - and shudder. Satan and his demons certainly have amassed information about God, but they …
Friday, June 5
Psalm: 51:1-17 Meditation Luke: The Pharisee and the tax collector. This is a very familiar parable of Jesus. Paul, himself a Pharisee, tells us “the just shall live by faith” (Romans 1:17; Habakkuk 2:4), and he would know. Pharisees were, by and large, good people whose heart was to adhere to the Law. They were …
Wednesday, May 6
Psalm: 119:25-48 Meditation Colossians: “And I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ’s affliction.” (v 1:24) This is a tough one! It “…does not imply that there is a deficiency in Christ’s atoning death…which would contradict…all the rest of Scripture.” what was ‘lacking’ in Christ’s affliction was the future …
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