Like Incense

Psalm 37   This Psalm is filled with so many curses for the wicked.  David is saying that although they are flourishing in their evil, they will pass away and come to nothing.  The works of people that live for themselves in their sin, they will not come to...

Wait

Psalm 40:1 “I waited patiently for the Lord”   “UGHHH”, is what we think.  Patience is a quality that no one is born with.  It is developed, given, and renewed by God.  How much sin is committed because we didn’t want to wait?  But just think.  David was...

Our God

Psalm 29:10 “The Lord sat enthroned at the Flood”   It’s so easy to get stuck in our little world.  School, family, friends, work, etc.  The smallest things like a dirty look can destroy our fragile worlds for the day and make it seem like our world is caving...

Mine

Psalms 33:10 “He makes the plans of the people of no effect”   I love how we make plans like they are actually going to happen.  Nothing is in our control.  It’s humbling, or humiliating that we actually can’t make anything happen.  Every detail of our lives, big...

A Garden

Jeremiah 1:10 “To root out and to pull down,  To destroy and to throw down,  To build and to plant.” So when you plant a tree, do you not physically assault the ground?  You take a shovel or a spade and you jab at the ground,  you break apart the dirt, and...

Set Your Sails

With the last chapter of a book of wisdom a warning is given.  But it’s more than a warning; it is an exhortation or a strong encouragement.  It is an exhortation to a higher calling- a challenge to those that are willing to rise above mediocrity.  It compares the...

A Name So High

“What is His name, and what is His Son’s name” “There is a generation that curses its father…there is a generation that is pure in its eyes…” The Son stood by the Father seated on the throne.  The Holy Spirit ascended the glass stairs and took His place on the other...

Mirrors

Proverbs 27:19 “As in water face reflects face, so a man’s heart reveals the man”   Ah, poetry.  “AHH,Truth!!”.  Our hearts truly reflect who we really are.  That evil thought that flashes in our minds, those violent visions we get,...

Leftovers

Proverbs 26:11 “As a dog returns to his vomit”           It’s a disgusting site to see a dog eat its own vomit.  it is just as disgusting to Christ to see us commit the same sin.  There is no reasonable explanation as to why dogs will go back to...