Proverb 17: 19 NIV He who loves a quarrel loves sin; he who builds a high gate invites destruction. Have you ever known a person who loves to fight? I certainly have. I have known people who did not seem happy unless they were embroiled in some kind of conflict. I never understood how […]
2 Kings 4: 42 – 44 NIV A man came from Baal Shalishah, bringing the man of God twenty loaves of barley bread baked from the first ripe grain, along with some heads of new grain. “Give it to the people to eat,” Elisha said. “How can I set this before a hundred men?” […]
Isaiah 2: 22 Stop regarding man, whose breath of life is in his nostrils; for why should he be esteemed? The prophet Isaiah taught the futility of having our trust in a person or in mankind generally. For an even more clear recitation of this senselessness, let us look at the NIV version of this […]
Zechariah 12: 10 And I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of Grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly […]
Psalm 98: 3 NIV He has remembered his love and his faithfulness to the house of Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. God has not forgotten His first love; the house of Israel. He is faithful to Israel even today. Israel was the seed that was supposed […]
Proverb 21: 28 God’s Word Translation A lying witness will die, but a person who listens to advice will continue to speak. What an uncommon comparison. The first phrase of this sentence talks about a liar. We would expect, then, for the second phrase to reveal the result for a truthful person. First, is there […]
1 Chronicles 9: 1 So all Israel was enrolled by genealogies; and behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel. And Judah was carried away into exile to Babylon for their unfaithfulness.People struggle over what they perceive as an angry God of the Old Testament. Admittedly, there is a different tone […]
