Lent Spent with the Psalms Day Twenty Four
Do you really walk alone? It can feel like that sometimes. Those we thought were friends have moved on to other pursuits. Loved ones have issues with us, real or imagined. We echo the thought of the psalmist.. You have taken my companions and loved ones from me; the darkness is my closest friend. (Psalm [...]
Lent Spent with the Psalms Day Twenty Three
Who journeys with you toward the cross? Jesus surrounded himself with a close-knit band of traveling companions, knowing that one of them would eventually be his betrayer. Despite that, he invested Himself fully in them. King David shared our more human perspective on a similar situation; But is you, a man like myself, my companion, [...]
Day 23 in the School of Prayer: Be Righteous!
The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective. (James 5:16) Ask and it will given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. (Matthew 7:7-8) Therefore, [...]
Lent Spent with the Psalms Day Sixteen
We conclude this week of Lent with with a question. Do we take the grace borne of the Cross for granted? To varying degrees, Christians have been guilty of this for centuries. A promise like that found in Psalm 30 can make us complacent, When I felt secure, I said, “I will never be shaken.” [...]
Lent Spent with the Psalms Day Fifteen
I remember the days of long ago; I meditate on all your works and consider what your hands have done. I spread out my hands to you; my soul thirsts for you like a parched land. (Psalm 143:5-6) It’s easy to become complacent in facing Easter. We look down the corridor of time back toward [...]
Lent Spent with the Psalms Day Fourteen
A horse is a vain hope for deliverance; despite all of its great strength it cannot save. (Psalm 33:17) We move closer to the Cross every day and yet it is still easy to lose sight of its reason for being. The horror of Calvary is the only hope we have but our wandering hearts [...]
Lent Spent with the Psalms Day Twelve
In your meditations on the Cross, I’m sure that you have noted that we mark time by moving toward Calvary. The Cross never moves. It is our guiding light and our destination. God is immovable as well. When our relationship with Him seems broken or strained it is not Him who has moved away from [...]
Lent Spent with the Psalms Day Ten
The psalmist expresses his despair in Psalm 129 as he speaks of his (their) oppression from youth. His enemies have not given a moments rest in their persecution and he prays to God for their destruction. We can identify with these feelings so many centuries later. Who among us has not wished evil on someone [...]
Lent Spent with the Psalms Day Seven
Restore us, O God Almighty; make you face shine upon us, that we may be saved. (Psalm 80:7) From John’s cry at the Jordan river to dark day of the Cross, Jesus made it clear that everything was changing in relation to man and God. Repentance would no longer take the form of external sacrifice [...]
Lent Spent with the Psalms Day Six
The Lord has dealt with me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he has rewarded me. (v20) In a moment of blinding clarity, meditating on this verse from Psalm 18 jolts your heart and mind to the reality. We are blessed beyond our ability to express it that God has [...]
