a better hope

Psalm 121 is powerful. I claim it (among others) every day for a friend and her family. I believe her family is under attack, and this is a Psalm of deliverance. It could be God has me at this position and point in time in order to blanket them with prayers. I don't know, but I feel a tremendous urge to pray them almost constantly. If God has someone on your mind, it's probably because He wants you to pray about them. Listen closely to how He wants you to proceed instead of having your own agenda. You may never know whose life (or whose soul) you help to save by being obedient. Amen?  Thank you for reading. And God bless. My Tumblr .  And my other blog, None Dare Call It Treason.

The Bible says God is our refuge, but what does that mean? I found a short article that explains how multifaceted that concept is. You can read it here . It was impressed upon me months ago how God is to be my refuge. I was taking so many of my thoughts and feelings to other places, but what I really needed was to pour them out to Him. Corrected, I am a much stronger Christian and a more stable human being. I have a long way to go, but I feel much stronger taking all my cares to Him instead of trying to find my own solutions. I stopped being my own refuge and much of my stress evaporated. Sure, I don't know how He's going to solve things, but I trust His ways are better than mine.  Thank you for reading. And God bless. My Tumblr .  And my other blog, None Dare Call It Treason.

This video helps explain the seeming contradiction in Galatians 6 which says to bear one another's burdens but also states all should bear their own load. Contradictions in the Bible can be explained by looking at the original languages, either Hebrew or Greek. Think of it as if you are going down a road and have a ditch on either side. As long as you keep your vehicle in the middle and away from either ditch, you're fine. Go too far in one direction or the other and you're in trouble. The contradictions are close enough in meaning to give a precise way forward, basically saying, "Don't go too far this way, and don't go too far that way either." I thought it was an interesting video. Here is another interesting video about the "thinking heart. " Sorry these are all TikToks. There is a lot of interesting stuff there. The heart does seem to have a mind of its own. It's not just the stuff of romance novels. Also, it does process things separate...

You know, I thought about this when I read the word unicorn in the Bible but didn't understand what it was talking about. Maybe I looked it up and forgot, but this was a good reminder, if that's the case. Here's a video explaining where that word came from .  Thank you for reading. And God bless. My Tumblr .  And my other blog, None Dare Call It Treason.

Going to church means different things to different people. Nothing wrong with that. I always felt going to church was a sort of sacred thing. I went to a lot of them over the years and then stopped because I had some rather upsetting things happen in my life which affected my faith. I was a young man. That sort of thing wouldn't happen today. I think of Job and how even his wife, who was surely the closest person to him, left him in his hour of need and told him to curse God and die. What did Job do? Here was a man smitten of God. No doubt about it. God slayed him. Job defended God to his wife and rebuked her attitude. Job was slayed by God and Job defended God. Why? Because he feared Him? Perhaps. I think Job knew God like few men do. Job definitely loved God. But he also understood God could give and take away in equal measure.  Job's friends came to "comfort" him but, instead, sat in silence with him for a while and then started tearing him apart. They didn't ...

    The story of Jesus, Mary, and Martha (Luke 10:38-42) has long interested me. It is a short story that says many things. I pasted it below from the KJV. Let's get started. *** 38  Now it came to pass, as they went, that he entered into a certain village: and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house. 39  And she had a sister called Mary, which also sat at Jesus' feet, and heard his word. 40  But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me. 41  And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things: 42  But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her. *** The story is something many of us can relate to. While we are busy doing our service, others are, seemingly, loafing. As we saw in the story of Lazarus, these ...

  "The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe."  (Proverbs 18:10) The above proverb relates to a recent post about the names of God. The very name of God is a strong tower or defense. According to Philippians 2:9-11 ( Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of  things  in heaven, and  things  in earth, and  things  under the earth;  And  that  every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ  is  Lord, to the glory of God the Father), there is nothing higher than the name of Jesus Christ (nor more powerful!). And, as Christians are supposed to point the way to Jesus Christ, Jesus points the way to the Father. In Him is found everything we need or want. In these present times, which are more than a little uncertain, some things remain certain. Those things are found in my Bible, from whic...