Some thoughts on Scripture

Psalm 99:8--"You answered them, O L ORD our God; You were to them God-Who-Forgives, Though You took vengeance on their deeds." The children of Israel, who walked in the wilderness, are well known for their complaining and rebellion. God, in His wrath, kept them wandering for forty years. Some He... Sign in to see full entry.

Psalm 98:3--"He has remembered His mercy and His faithfulness to the house of Israel; All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God." We may never know fully why God chose one nation, Israel, with whom to make a covenant; because the situation today is that anyone who who has opened... Sign in to see full entry.

Psalm 97:10a--"You who love the L ORD, hate evil!" Do we hate evil? Do we hate that we sin? If we are truly in the Lord, we should. It is inconsistent to claim to be walking with the Lord and yet relishing things that are evil and sinful. We have a sinful nature, to be sure, so we need to take that... Sign in to see full entry.

Psalm 96:6--"Honor and majesty are before Him; Strenth and beauty are in His sanctuary." In the original Hebrew, when this psalm was composed, the attributes were personified as attendants at the Lord's throne. They showed forth the exalted one the universal King. Sign in to see full entry.

Psalm 94:9--"He who planted the ear, shall He not hear? He who formed the eye, shall He not see." We, in our pettiness, sometimes think that the Lord does not hear our prayers. We think He does not see us. But hearing is a gift we have received from God; vision is a gift we have received from God.... Sign in to see full entry.

Psalm 93:4--"The L ORD on high is mightier Than the noise of many waters, Than the mighty waves of the sea." The Lord God, our Creator, has covered this planet with much water. So much water came in Noah's time that it overwhelmed all but those eight who had boarded the ark that Noah had built. The... Sign in to see full entry.

Psalm 92:12--"The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree, He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon." The first image that comes to mind when I think of a tropical storm is how the high winds blow back on palm trees, but the palm trees simply bend with the form. They don't break. Palm trees are... Sign in to see full entry.

Psalm 91:5-6--"You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, Nor of the arrow that flies by day, Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, Nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday." Dangers are all around in this life on earth, whether at day or at night. There is much to fear at any... Sign in to see full entry.

Psalm 90:12--"So teach us to number our days, That we may gain a heart of wisdom." Moses recounts how brief man's life is in comparison with all the length of God's eternal creation; and he concludes it is important then to live one's limited days well, to attain wisdom. There is a competing worldly... Sign in to see full entry.

Psalm 89:15-16--"Blessed are the people who know the joyful sound! They walk, O L ORD, in the light of Your countenance. In Your name they rejoice all day long, And in Your righteousness they are exalted." There have been a number of times people have commented that there is something different... Sign in to see full entry.