OCTOBER 7, 2023 Psalm 8:5 You have made him a little lower than the angels, and You have crowned him with glory and honor. I’ve often wondered just what David meant by these words seeing that, in all of Creation, only mankind was created in the image and likeness of God. That being said, angels and […]
OCTOBER 6, 2023 Psalm 8:3-4 When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained, what is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him? We don’t know exactly what night it was that David stared up at the heavens and […]
OCTOBER 5, 2023 Psalm 8:3-4 When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained, what is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him? Why does David not mention the sun along with the moon and stars? Presumably, it is […]
OCTOBER 4, 2023 Psalm 8:2 Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have ordained strength, because of Your enemies, that You may silence the enemy and the avenger. Throughout history, the wicked of this world have demonstrated their displeasure at the overwhelming evidence of God throughout the Creation. For millennia so called scholars, scientists […]
OCTOBER 3, 2023 Psalm 8:1 O Lord, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth, who have set Your glory above the heavens! As a child, I would often lay in bed, and in the darkness, attempt to contemplate GOD — the all-powerful, eternally existent Creator of heaven and earth. I can remember that it was common […]
OCTOBER 1, 2023 Psalm 7:11-12 God is a just judge, and God is angry with the wicked every day. If he does not turn back, He will sharpen His sword; He bends His bow and makes it ready. We have mentioned in previous devotions the care we, as followers of the Messiah, should undertake when we inclined to judge in […]
SEPTEMBER 30, 2023 Psalm 7:9-10 Oh, let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the just; for the righteous God tests the hearts and minds. My defense is of God, who saves the upright in heart. In concert with issues, we discussed in the previous devotion, notice that David prays that the “wickedness of the […]
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023 Psalm 7:6 Arise, O Lord, in Your anger; lift Yourself up because of the rage of my enemies; rise up for me to the judgment You have commanded! When one considers all the psalms said to be written by David and then observe how many times, he prayed for God to act against his enemies it […]
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023 Psalm 7:1-2 O Lord my God, in You I put my trust; save me from all those who persecute me; and deliver me, lest they tear me like a lion, rending me in pieces, while there is none to deliver. Reading through the psalms ascribed to David, it doesn’t take long to conclude that he had many trials […]
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023 Psalm 6:6-8 All night I make my bed swim; I drench my couch with my tears. My eye wastes away because of grief; it grows old because of all my enemies. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity; for the Lord has heard the voice of my weeping. According to Jewish commentators, there was […]
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023 Psalm 6:4-5 Return, O Lord, deliver me! Oh, save me for Your mercies’ sake! For in death there is no remembrance of You; in the grave who will give You thanks? According to some commentators, when David wrote this he was very ill and under intense pressure due to the many enemies who sought his […]
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023 Psalm 6:3-4 My soul also is greatly troubled; but You, O Lord—how long? Return, O Lord, deliver me! Oh, save me for Your mercies’ sake! At one time or another, I’m sure most of us have heard the phrase, “God will not put upon us any more than we can bear.” This sentiment, often recited […]
