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Apparently, Our Guardian Angels Will Sometimes Run Our Errands!

2024-03-14 12:24 Tobit 9:5. "So Raphael made the journey and stayed overnight with Gabael. He gave him the receipt, and Gabael brought out the money bags with their seals intact and gave them to him." The Archangel Ra...

We All Share the Same Rights

2024-03-13 06:49 Wisdom 19:16. "[B]ut the latter, after receiving them with festal celebrations, afflicted with terrible sufferings those who had already shared the same rights." The "latter" here are the Egyptians, w...

Wisdom is Better Than Might

2024-03-12 06:19 Ecclesiastes 9:13. "I have also seen this example of wisdom under the sun, and it seemed great to me." Solomon goes on to tell the story of a besieged city that is saved by a single wise, poor man who...

In the Service of the King

2024-03-11 10:47 1 Samuel 16:22. "And Saul sent to Jesse, saying 'Let David remain in my service, for he has found favor in my sight.'" David's favor with Saul will not last; Saul will instead develop a fi...

God Prepares Us for Hard Truths

2024-03-09 09:54 Luke 18:34. "But they understood none of these things; this saying was hid from them, and they did not grasp what was said." This comes right after Jesus told his apostles that He and they were headin...

Strangers, Guests, and Benefactors

2024-03-08 08:22 Wisdom 19:14 "Others had refused to receive strangers when they came to them, but these made slaves of guests who were their benefactors." Solomon is speaking of how the Egyptians treated the Jews...

Slipping Into Revolt

2024-03-06 06:32 Jeremiah 11:9-10. "Again the Lord said to me, 'There is revolt among the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to...

Finding the Key of Knowledge in a World Trying to Hide It

2024-03-05 06:16 Luke 11:52. "Woe to you lawyers! for you have taken away the key of knowledge; you did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering." This line really spoke to me, especially in...

Ones and Zeros

2024-03-04 09:52 This is not one of my typical Bible posts, but rather a journal entry I wrote this morning. In my dozy, half-sleep stage last night I was thinking about ones and zeros, for some reason. (You have prob...

Well Rounded Sacrifice

2024-03-02 06:49 Numbers 15:11. "Thus it shall be done for each bull or ram, or for each of the male lambs or the kids." The "thus" that shall be done is that for each sacrifice of one of these animals, a concurrent s...