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“…Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground.” —John 8:6 John Oxenham wrote a book of short poems titled Bees in Amber. I particularly like his poem “God’s Handwriting.” He writes in characters too grand For our short sight to understand; We catch but broken strokes, and try To fathom all the …
“Christ in you, THE HOPE of glory: Whom we preach WARNING every man…” —Colossians 1:27-28 May 26, 2002, Memorial day weekend, a barge pilot passed out and hit a bridge span of I-40 over the Arkansas river. This accident dropped a 600 foot span of the bridge 62 feet into the swift flowing river below. …
James 5:1-7 — Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. …
Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. —Psalm 37:5 To commit is to transfer or consign something (or someone) to another’s keeping (Gen. 39:8, 22). I see some Christians who seem to commit their situation to God, but stop short of “trust also in him.” …
Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile! —John 1:47 When Philip told Nathanael they found the Messiah—Jesus of Nazareth, Nathanael plainly spoke his mind, “Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?” (John 1:46). His comment was a slam not only upon …
I will even make a way in the wilderness. —Isaiah 43:19 I love the little chorus: “My Lord knows the way through the wilderness; All I have to do is to follow. Strength for the day, Is mine all the way, And all that I need for tomorrow. My Lord knows the way through the …