“Whoever is wise, let him attend to these things; let them consider the steadfast love of the LORD.” Psalm 107:43 This psalm begins with the exhortation, “Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever! Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he has redeemed from […]
“Be broken, you peoples, and be shattered; give ear, all you far countries; strap on your armor and be shattered; strap on your armor and be shattered. Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing; speak a word, but it will not stand, for God is with us.” Isaiah 8:9-10 What a powerful statement. […]
“The eyes of all look to you, and you give them their food in due season.” Psalm 145:15 Our Lord gives us our food in due season. He gives us exactly what we need precisely when we need it. So He doesn’t send us our “food” early. We aren’t given storehouses of provisions to hoard […]
“And the LORD said to Isaiah, ‘Go out to meet Ahaz, you and Shear-jashub your son’” Isaiah 7:3 According to the footnotes in my Bible, Shear-jashub means, “a remnant shall return.” What beautiful hope is seen in this name. While it also points to a coming judgment in which God’s people will be scattered and […]
“And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.” Philippians 1:6 “This I know, that God is for me” Psalm 56:9b If God is for me, and if He has begun a good work in me that He […]
“In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of his robe filled the temple…And I said: ‘Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of […]
“The King in his might loves justice. You have established equity; you have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.” Psalm 99:4 It’s easy to say and believe that our King loves justice when we can see Him establishing equity. When we see Him execute justice and righteousness in our lives and in the world around […]
“And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul” Deuteronomy 10:12 A question has been in my thoughts this morning. Is […]
“For the LORD of hosts has a day against all that is proud and lofty, against all that is lifted up—and it shall be brought low; against all the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and lifted up; and against all the oaks of Bashan; against all the lofty mountains, and against all the uplifted hills; against […]
“Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even to the head, there is no soundness in it, but bruises and sores and raw wounds; they are not pressed out or bound up or […]
In Pleasant Places 