Archive for September, 2008
The Silence of God
Posted by: | CommentsDon’t you love it when God makes things so clear that you have no doubt what He is saying to you? Direction is sure. We all love it when as we say, “There is the handwriting on the wall.” Although I might point out that the only time in Scripture I remember Him doing that was when some heavy duty judgment was about to fall!
Yet how many times do we pray and seek God and still don’t really have a definite sense of what He is saying? We know the Word says, “My sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me.” It also says, “I will guide you with my eye.”
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Embracing Seasons
Posted by: | CommentsToday I feel fall beginning. As I sit outside in the early morning; it is cool – very cool. I hear a woodpecker in the distance hammering away at a tree. I see a squirrel jump from branch to branch. Crickets are still singing. I breathe in the experience. The first whispers of fall.
Yet, I know that following fall is winter. And winter means death. Fall is the beginning of a season of death. What spring birthed and summer boasted of, fall now begins to kill. Less daylight means less growth and eventually the advent of winter and then death. The death of beautiful flowers and green leaves. Cool becomes cold. Refreshing winds become bitter winds. The welcoming arms of nature will eventually motion for me to stay inside to avoid the inevitable coming of death.
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God’s Good Anger
Posted by: | Comments(I didn’t realize I was posting this on 9-11. What an appropriate contrast of unrighteous anger and righteous anger.)
Nahum 1:2-7
2 God’s Wrath on His Enemies
God is jealous, and the Lord avenges;
The Lord avenges and is furious.
The Lord will take vengeance on His adversaries,
And He reserves wrath for His enemies;
3 The Lord is slow to anger and great in power,
And will not at all acquit the wicked.
The Lord has His way
In the whirlwind and in the storm,
And the clouds are the dust of His feet.
4 He rebukes the sea and makes it dry,
And dries up all the rivers.
Bashan and Carmel wither,
And the flower of Lebanon wilts.
5 The mountains quake before Him,
The hills melt,
And the earth heaves at His presence,
Yes, the world and all who dwell in it.
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Affliction
Posted by: | CommentsThis entry is taken from Spurgeon’s Daily Devotional.
“Wherefore hast Thou afflicted Thy servant?”
Numbers 11:11
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