ArchiveJanuary 2012

Finder’s Keepers – Not

Finder’s Keepers – Not

If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey wandering away, you shall surely return it to him. If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying helpless under its load, you shall refrain from leaving it to him, you shall surely release it with him...

Whose Battle is It?

Whose Battle is It?

Is this not the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, Leave us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.” But Moses said to the people, “Do not fear...

Command

Command

Then the sons of Israel went and did so; just as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did. Exodus 12:28 In response to God’s instruction for the passover, the people of God did all they were commanded and it saved their lives. Have...

Distinct

Distinct

But against any of the sons of Israel a dog will not even bark, whether against man or beast, that you may understand how the LORD makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.’ Exodus 11:7 God spared His people in the passover of the angel of death...

Kings and Kingdoms

Kings and Kingdoms

So Pilate asked Him, saying, “Are You the King of the Jews?” And He answered him and said, “It is as you say.” Luke 23:3 Pontius Pilate asked a profound question with immense implication. Who are you, Jesus? If He is the promised King of the Jews...

I Am

I Am

But Moses said to God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the sons of Israel out of Egypt?” Exodus 3:11 When God called Moses to deliver His people, Moses’ first reaction is tentative. He is uncertain of his own...

Does God Care?

Does God Care?

So God heard their groaning; and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. God saw the sons of Israel, and God took notice of them. Exodus 2:24-25 I have noticed that when people suffer they wonder if He is aware and if He cares...

Little Ones

Little Ones

Joseph provided his father and his brothers and all his father’s household with food, according to their little ones. Genesis 47:12 After all the years of life’s ups and downs, Joseph heart remained tender and generous. He exemplifies Christ...

Grin and Bear it

Grin and Bear it

For your servant became surety for the lad to my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, then let me bear the blame before my father forever.’ Genesis 44:32 Judah, the son of Jacob exemplifies Christ by offering to take the place of...

Discreet

Discreet

Now he had still another dream, and related it to his brothers, and said, “Lo, I have had still another dream; and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.” Genesis 37:9 By the description in Genesis, Joseph was an...

Seven Years

Seven Years

So Jacob served seven years for Rachel and they seemed to him but a few days because of his love for her. Genesis 29:20 When you do what you love or you do what you despise for the sake of what you love, time flies by. Seven years can seem as but a...

Grudge Match

Grudge Match

So Esau bore a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him; and Esau said to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.” Genesis 27:41 Esau was deeply wounded and...

Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff

Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff

Then Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him, “My lord, listen to me; a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver, what is that between me and you? So bury your dead.” Genesis 23:14-15 We have all heard the saying “Don’t sweat...

Cosmic Karma

Cosmic Karma

Now therefore, restore the man’s wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not restore her, know that you shall surely die, you and all who are yours.” Genesis 20:7 God kept his promise to Abraham, even...

Great

Great

I say to you, among those born of women there is no one greater than John; yet he who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.” When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they acknowledged God’s justice, having been baptized...

A Promise Kept

A Promise Kept

Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have sworn to the LORD God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth, that I will not take a thread or a sandal thong or anything that is yours, for fear you would say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’ Genesis 14:22-24...

Communication Breakdown

Communication Breakdown

The LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. The LORD said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have the same language. And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be...

Grace in the Eyes

Grace in the Eyes

But Noah found favor (grace) in the eyes of the LORD. These are the records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his time; Noah walked with God. Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Genesis 6:8...

Grace from the Get Go

Grace from the Get Go

The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them. Genesis 3:21 God covered the shame of Adam’s sin. In this plain and simple loving act, God opened the door for man to move forward in a right relationship with Him and...

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