What can we know about the Law of God? It is impossible to keep! Therefore, we can recognize our need for God’s answer to that need. We need help; the help which only God can, and has, supplied. His Son, Jesus Christ. (NASB) Psalm 19:7 “The Law of the LORD is perfect, restoring the soul…” […]
What does the Law show us? What does God’s Law prove about the human condition? The Law shows and proves that people are sinners. Even when we try our hardest to be good and right…we fail. Followers of Christ are not exempt. What is the answer to this dilemma? In the book of Romans, Paul […]
As the Law of God is being considered this week…the following could well be our prayer: (NIV) Psalm 119:105-108 105“Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. 106I have taken an oath and confirmed it, that I will follow your righteous laws. 107I have suffered much; preserve my life, […]
Silence is not a vacuum – silence is a stillness… Silence is waiting…hushed with expectancy… Listen in the silence, what do you hear? Standing on my front porch one evening I heard tires on a rain-wet street… insects quietly playing their song… water dripping from the eaves… my mind became quieted – listening, listening in […]
As the Law of God is being considered this week…the following could well be our prayer: (NIV) Psalm 119:105-108 105“Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. 106I have taken an oath and confirmed it, that I will follow your righteous laws. 107I have suffered much; preserve my life, […]
This devotional has been considering the contrast of being like the world or being distinct from the world. From listening and following what the world says is right, or what God says is right. We have a decided set of choices. Psalm 1 contrasts a full and fruit-filled life with a life worth nothing, like […]
(Amplified) Psalm 1:1-3 “BLESSED, (HAPPY, fortunate, prosperous, and enviable) is the man who walks and lives not in the counsel of the ungodly [following their advice, their plans and purposes], nor stands [submissive and inactive] in the path where sinners walk nor sits down [to relax and rest] where the scornful [and the mockers] gather. […]
The Psalmist described the life of a follower of Christ, a person who puts God and His word first in their life. (NASB) Psalm 1:1-3 “HOW BLESSED is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, Nor stand in the path of sinners, Nor sit in the seat of scoffers! 2 […]
Yesterday we considered what we are not to do…today consider what the positives are: (NASB) Psalm 1:2 “But his delight is in the law of the LORD, And in His law he meditates day and night.” Delight in the law of the LORD? If you have no desire to read God’s word…ask God for the […]
(KJV) Psalm 1:1-3 “BLESSED IS the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. 2But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. 3And he shall be […]