To be the apple of someone’s eye means that you are beloved by him. His focus is on you. He watches you closely. He loves you. Your tiny reflection shines in the light of his eye when he looks at you. You are never far from his thoughts. He would do anything to protect you because you are precious to him.
The thought that David wrote a psalm that reflected his own personal experience of life and of God, which is also a prophetic word about Jesus, amazes me. David believed God’s promise that his heir would sit on the throne of a kingdom that has no end. But, did he also know the details?
Psalm 15 is a pleasant surprise along my quest for holiness. After a long lists of things that we can probably almost all agree are morally true, David concludes, “Whoever does these things will never be shaken.” I want that. I desire to have a faith that cannot be shaken.
Thanksgiving is the language of heaven, and we had better start to learn it if we are not to be mere dumb aliens there. ~ A. J. Gossip, Professor of Christian Ethics and Practical Theology at the University of Glasgow When I first met my husband, we were in seminary, which made for many precarious…
I finally found it! That faith-deepening experience that I probably couldn’t have told you I was looking for as a high school or college student, but from which I would have greatly benefitted. You see, I was that Church girl (and I still am)—serious about life, committed to faith (even though I don’t always know…
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