“The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and sin…” Exodus 34:6-7a The forgiveness of the Almighty God. Is there any more resounding mark...

“Be still and know that I am God…” Psalm 46:10a One beautiful translation of that verse puts it this way, rather:  “Cease your striving and know that I am God.” How often we continue pressing harder and harder, still feeling inadequate, though, and so trying even...

“But You, O Lord, are a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head. I cried aloud to the Lord, and He answered me from His holy hill.” Psalm 3:3-4 If we haven’t already, we will all eventually find a struggle that seems “beyond us.” Sometimes, the odds seem...

“Behold the Lamb of God Who takes away the sin of the world!” John 1:29b Before Jesus’ coming, God had carefully set a redemptive balance wherein sin was carefully atoned by repentant sacrifice. Even the first sin in the Garden of Eden immediately found a blood...

“See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are.” 1 John 3:1 When God made us, it was from the overflow of a profoundly loving heart. He did not create us out of some sense of incompleteness or need. No, He...

“For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last He will stand upon the earth… yet in my flesh I shall see God, Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold…” Job 19:25-27 ESV “I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of...

“I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, Who made heaven and earth… He Who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, He Who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is your keeper… He will keep your life… from...

“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of all compassion and the God of all comfort, Who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.” 2...