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We don’t know what’s best for us.  That may seem trite, but it depends on your viewpoint.  If your viewpoint is outside of any relationship with God, then it is trite indeed.  If your viewpoint is one of looking out from a relationship with God, then it is an absolute truth. I have wondered about [...]

I was talking with a friend earlier this evening and he said, in essence, that he didn’t want to study scripture, and dissect the word and debate what this or that verse might mean.  He wanted his faith to be simple – just belief.  He didn’t want to be worried with the logic or theology [...]

Picking up on yesterday’s post – I asked the question, “Who – or what – is the Foundation of Faith?” You could answer (some do) and say, “Peter”.  You could also answer and say the stone upon which Christ built his church (ekklesia) is Peter’s answer and the underlying revelation from God that prompted his [...]

Don’t blame God.  That is the lesson that Israel learned as a nation in exile.  That’s a lesson we struggle with today. We stray from God, we go our own way, we rebel against him.  We understand that we are punished as a consequence: 39 Why should any who draw breath complain about the punishment of [...]

Today’s lesson scripture tells two tales: one of a rebellious people; the other of a steadfast God.  Both are instructive for how we deal with our own doubts about the present and about the future. 5 He established a decree in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our ancestors to teach to [...]

In response to complaints and doubts, we are to strengthen our own faith, reach out in love to others and have mercy on them as we ask God to have mercy on us.  Today’s lesson scripture is from Jude: 14 It was also about these that Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, saying, “See, [...]

Following the Red Sea experience, the people of Israel journey into the wilderness and show their human nature by forgetting what God had done to bring them out of captivity and complaining and longing to go back to that captivity for the material comforts it offered.  Today’s lesson scripture reads as follows: 1 The whole [...]

Eerdman’s Commentary, categorizes today’s lesson scripture as one of the “Individual Laments“. A Maskil of David. When he was in the cave. A Prayer. 1 With my voice I cry to the Lord; with my voice I make supplication to the Lord. 2 I pour out my complaint before him; I tell my trouble before him. 3 When [...]

. . . Picking up from yesterday, how do we know whether we are doing God’s will versus pursuing our own?  Put another way, how do we move from justification by faith and grace to sanctification through faith and grace?  Our lesson scripture today has something to say about this. The first eleven chapters of [...]

Obedience is more than mere agreement. Today’s lesson scripture speaks of the difference in saying one thing and doing another.  As Danny’s post yesterday made clear, a creed (belief) is something that should inform our actions.  If it does not, then can it really be our creed?  That’s the question that Jesus puts to the [...]