Like some of the Psalms that’s been covered so far, this one takes on the comparison between the light and dark of the relationship with God. Light is seen towards the end – just like the whole weeping enduring for the night and joy coming in the morning. That morning side is very clear as […]
Read More Psalm 22 – Where Were You When I Needed You?Awe. It’s quite a word. One thing that comes across to me reading Psalm 19 is how awestruck the Psalmist is. He looks at creation, he considers the written word of God and He has the same awe. Isn’t awesome how God has spoken. Not only has He spoken but that He has spoken. In […]
Read More Psalm 19 – The Wonder of RevelationI gotta say I had not paid that much attention to this Psalm before. For me I thought the whole thing about being in the Holy mountain was about clean hands and pure heart. This Psalm definitely puts some meat on them bones suggesting it’s not just the hands and heart, but the mouth too […]
Read More Psalm 15 – Even If It HurtsFor His Name’s Sake Shalom C. L. J. Dryden
Read More Some Tough Discipleship QuestionsI have an older sister. When we were children, she was bigger and stronger than me. This was evident time and again whenever there was a battle between us. I am sure my parents were amused at my efforts at getting one over on her. It was an act in futility. It would have made […]
Read More Psalm 2 – Conspire or DevoteIt would have been easy to blow up and make a big deal of it. I could have sulked for a number of days and plotted my revenge. I could have resorted to refusing to engage properly because of the significant slight that I suffered. I knew better, though. I knew better not because I […]
Read More December Thanks #26: MentorsLife teaches me more and more that it’s not good that I should be alone. And that solitude can be a remarkably good discipline to pursue. Apparently some streams of Christianity highlight solitude as an important spiritual discipline, which I still find a little odd. Prayer I can see, fasting I can definitely appreciate, but […]
Read More December Thanks #25: SolitudeIt took me a while, but I did come to realise there has to be a good reason to wake up and get out of bed in the morning. My parents were not the lazy sort at all. Very industrious, tenacious, committed folks who knew all about a hard day’s work. In fact I got […]
Read More December Thanks #15: MotivationOn some occasions, I have mentioned that it must be at times really hard to live with me. This often gets a vigorous nodding of the head from my daughters and an exaggerated look of not knowing what on earth I could possibly be talking about from my wife. These aside, I have a decent […]
Read More December Thanks #10: GraceGod looks out for me. 2016 has been a fascinating year for a number of reasons. Yet recently I have been able to briefly stop and be grateful for the fact that God looks out for me. The tag of laziness has long been one never to be placed on me. Of late, however, I […]
Read More December Thanks #08: Rest
