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Psalm 51:16-17 meaningOctober 2, 2023
David understands that God doesn't care about animal sacrifices and religious performance, if there is no heart behind them. God's delight cannot be purchased. God desires us to live in humility and obedience toward Him. He wants us to hate sin, and to love and obey Him starting from within our hearts.
Psalm 51:13-15 meaningOctober 2, 2023
David knows that when God creates a new heart, it will redirect his life. He will teach transgressors and sinners the way of God and he will become an effective and impactful worshipper of the Lord God.
Psalm 51:10-12 meaningOctober 2, 2023
Beyond healing and cleansing, David sees that he needs an entirely new heart. His old heart leads him astray. He prays that God would not take away the Holy Spirit from him. His desire is to fully lean on God's lead in his life, to restore him to joy in walking in His presence.
Psalm 51:7-9 meaningOctober 2, 2023
After searching his heart in the presence of God, David realizes the hopeless condition of his sinful heart and he cries out to God. He knows that he needs to be purified, washed, and healed.
Psalm 51:4-6 meaningOctober 2, 2023
David acknowledges the reality that all sin is ultimately an affront to God. God is the perfect judge. His ways are good and right. David asks for wisdom and truth to be implanted into his heart so that he may live as God desires him to.
Psalm 51:1-3 meaningOctober 2, 2023
David looks deep into his own heart and is confronted with his own sin. He comes to the realization that he needs more than forgiveness. He needs cleansing in the innermost being.
Zechariah 9:14-17 meaningSeptember 29, 2023
Zechariah tells the Judeans that the LORD will defend them, care for them, and restore their fortunes because they are precious to Him.
Zechariah 9:11-13 meaningSeptember 29, 2023
The LORD announces His plan to free Zion’s captives to fulfill His promise to her. He urges them to return home because He will give them a double blessing and use them to defeat Greece.
Zechariah 9:9-10 meaningSeptember 29, 2023
The LORD urges the Judeans to rejoice because the long-awaited righteous king is coming. He will stop all wars and bring peace to the whole world.
Zechariah 9:1-8 meaningSeptember 29, 2023
The Suzerain (ruler) God promises to judge the nations surrounding Judah. He will stop them from oppressing His people and find a remnant among them to worship Him.
Luke 6:12-16 meaningSeptember 27, 2023
Luke describes the time that Jesus went to the mountain to pray through the night. The next day Jesus calls His twelve disciples and also appoints them as apostles. Luke lists the twelve apostles by name.
Luke 6:6-11 meaningSeptember 27, 2023
Luke narrates the second confrontation between Jesus and the Pharisees on the issue of authority over the Sabbath. The Pharisees set a trap for Jesus relating to the healing of a man’s withered hand on the Sabbath.
Luke 6:1-5 meaningSeptember 27, 2023
Luke narrates the first of two confrontations between Jesus and the Pharisees. Who is in charge of the Sabbath: Jesus or the Pharisees?
Proverbs 9:13-18 meaningSeptember 27, 2023
Folly’s strategies are meant to deceive and confuse, but the differences in messaging show that folly is the way to death and only wisdom is the path of life.
Proverbs 9:10-12 meaningSeptember 26, 2023
Solomon is setting the stakes for the two life paths we can follow—wisdom or wickedness. Life or death. At the hinge of his presentation, he returns to one of the cornerstones of the path of wisdom: the fear of God.
Proverbs 9:7-9 meaningSeptember 26, 2023
There are two ways to respond to the correction and teaching of Wisdom. The first is to scoff and the second is to accept and apply. Which reaction we choose reveals which path we have chosen.
Proverbs 9:4-6 meaningSeptember 26, 2023
Wisdom calls out to the naïve and the fools, inviting them to the table she has prepared.
Proverbs 9:1-3 meaningSeptember 26, 2023
Solomon describes Lady Wisdom’s efforts to construct a sturdy dwelling and invites us all to dwell there with her.
Job 2:11-13 meaningSeptember 25, 2023
Job's Visitors: Three of Job's friends—Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar—come to visit him in his suffering, hoping to comfort him. They do not even recognize Job when they first see him, due to the boils all over his body. Each man tears his clothing and throws dust, weeping and mourning their friend's condition. They sit with him for a week silently waiting for him to speak. They see Job is in severe pain.
Job 2:7-10 meaningSeptember 25, 2023
Job Perseveres through Physical Pain: Satan afflicts Job's body with boils from his head to his feet. Job sits in ashes scratching his sores with broken pottery. His wife asks him why he won't blame God and succumb to his illness by dying. Job rebukes her as speaking foolishly, and accepts the good and the difficulties God allows into his life.
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