“‘Because the poor are plundered, because the needy groan, I will now arise,’ says the LORD; ‘I will place him in the safety for which he longs.’” Psalm 12:5 Reading this verse, a question stirred in my mind: what is the safety the Lord provides? The context of the psalm seems to indicate a decisive […]
“After this [Jesus] went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax booth. And he said to him, ‘Follow me.’ And leaving everything, he rose and followed him.” Luke 5:27-28 “And I will save the lame and gather the outcast, and I will change their shame into praise and renown in […]
“And the LORD said to Moses, ‘Tell Aaron your brother not to come at any time into the Holy Place inside the veil, before the mercy seat that is on the ark [of the covenant], so that he may not die. For I will appear in the cloud over the mercy seat. But in this […]
“For now we live, if you are standing fast in the Lord. For what thanksgiving can we return to God for you, for all the joy that we feel for your sake before our God, as we pray most earnestly night and day that we may see you face to face and supply what is […]
“As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds His people, from this time forth and forevermore.” Psalm 125:2 It seems a quiet morning. But perhaps the quiet is bringing my attention to the renewed peace in my soul. Because it is still there. Rest is enough. Breathing in the moments with my God, reading […]
“Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.” Colossians 3:12-13 Two things stood out to me as I read through […]
“And they came to Bethsaida. And some people brought to him a blind man and begged him to touch him. And he took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village…Then Jesus laid his hands on his eyes again; and he opened his eyes, his sight was restored, and he […]
In Pleasant Places 