I have a few favorite, go-to Psalms and Ps. 46 is one of them. In it, the Psalmist both recognizes the deep pain and fear this life causes us and God’s power to overcome those fears. In fact, this Psalm is almost schizophrenic as it vacillates back and forth between the power of God to […]
Ps. 44 is a remarkable Psalm of trust in God, though reading it at first glance leads to other conclusions. Initially it looks like a Psalm of lament. God’s people, through the Psalmist, are crying out in confusion. “What have we done that you have abandoned us,” they cry. They cannot understand that though they […]
In his book, Anxious for Nothing, Max Lucado takes this passage as an example of how not to be anxious. He examines Paul’s statement at the end of the passage and breaks it apart. “You should have listened to me…” Sometimes the right thing to do is to stand and face God’s rebuke. Did you […]
A speaker was sharing about a conversation he had with a Millennial last year. The Millennial was going to leave his job and find a new career. “I’m just not finding my current job fulfilling,” he said. When asked how long he’d felt this, he said it was since he began the job… three months […]
It is amazing that what we consider a failure is often God’s idea of success. For Paul, this was a common reality, and so Paul learned to see events through God’s eyes instead of his own. Beatings became a way for him to better identify with Jesus’ suffering. Shipwrecks became ways that God could show […]