Psalm 73: God’s Sanctuary and Me
What our world needs today is a picture of God’s goodness and love, a rarity in these times.
What our world needs today is a picture of God’s goodness and love, a rarity in these times.
The men of Israel once asked their foes to say the name “Shibboleth” (Judges 12:6), and if they mispronounced it, they were doomed.
Jesus is our peace. Whatever dividing walls we erect—racial, religious, relational, political, or cultural—Jesus wants us to live peacefully with one another. Let Jesus abolish the hostility.
No story is greater than that of the world becoming God’s tabernacle. It inspires me to draw close to God, who longs for us know Him and to receive His love. Perhaps we don’t feel the glory of God in this world as we should because no one is working to bring Him here.
God’s justice is like a mighty stream. To defy it is to block God’s almighty surge.
There is something fascinating and wonderful about rainbows. Their colors hold great beauty and promise.
In this story, we discover an explosion of excessive and sweet joy, the kind we all search for.
Instead of choosing a cafeteria-style Christianity, I pledged to consider the Bible as a whole in my quest to determine who God is.
I don’t see God arbitrarily removing His mercy and forgiveness from our world; I see Him describing probation from a different angle, using Pharaoh’s hardened heart as a metaphor for the condition of our world. We close probation on ourselves.
For Paul, the gospel is not about being saved from an angry God but a message grounded in God’s rescuing love for the world and fully revealed in the faithfulness of Jesus. Now that’s a game changer!