Category: daily meditations

There are two passages assigned for today! SCRIPTURE: Psalm 58 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: The godly will rejoice when they see injustice avenged. They will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked. [Psalms 58:10] Washing our feet in the blood of the wicked – that is just sick! I try to put myself in David’s ‘shoes’, to imagine…

There are two passages assigned for today! SCRIPTURE: Psalm 57 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Be exalted, O God, above the highest heavens! May your glory shine over all the earth. [Psalms 57:5] David is in trouble, his soul is deeply troubled. He begins his prayer with a prayer for protection,. but soon his theme becomes God’s glory. “May Your reputation…

There are two passages assigned for today! SCRIPTURE: Psalm 56 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: They are always twisting what I say; they spend their days plotting to harm me. They come together to spy on me- watching my every step, eager to kill me. [Psalms 56:5-6] When the leading priests and teachers of religious law heard what Jesus had done,…

SCRIPTURE: Psalm 55 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Oh, that I had wings like a dove; then I would fly away and rest! I would fly far away to the quiet of the wilderness. [Psalms 55:6-7] In battle, the word ‘retreat’ is negative; it is seen as giving up, running away. But in spiritual warfare, retreat is a good thing; it…

SCRIPTURE: Psalm 54 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: But God is my helper. The Lord keeps me alive! [Psalms 54:4] David is in hiding from King Saul, who wants to kill him; David prays this prayer after the Ziphites betray him to Saul. Were these the words he prayed after God rescued him, or what he prayed while he was still…

SCRIPTURE: Job 42 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: I had only heard about you before, but now I have seen you with my own eyes. [Job 42:5] During his hardship, God seemed absent to Job; everything he believed about God was put to the test. Many of us, like Job, have beliefs about God that do not always fit with life…

SCRIPTURE: Job 41 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Nothing on earth is its equal, no other creature so fearless. Of all the creatures, it is the proudest. It is the king of beasts. [Job 41:33-34] In this conversation, God uses the largest beast known at the time [the behemoth or leviathon, Job 40:15, Job 41:1] to show His own greatness and our smallness….

SCRIPTURE: Job 40 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Then the Lord said to Job, “Do you still want to argue with the Almighty? You are God’s critic, but do you have the answers?” Then Job replied to the Lord, “I am nothing—how could I ever find the answers? I will cover my mouth with my hand. I have said too…

SCRIPTURE: Job 39 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Do you know when the wild goats give birth? Have you watched as deer are born in the wild? Do you know how many months they carry their young? Are you aware of the time of their delivery? [Job 39:1-2] Is it your wisdom that makes the hawk soar and spread its wings…

SCRIPTURE: Job 38 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Brace yourself like a man, because I have some questions for you, and you must answer them. Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell me, if you know so much. [Job 38:3-4] Finally, after extended controversy between Job and his friends, we now get to God’s response. But…