Reflect for a while on the thoughts in the mind of God as He inhaled to breathe out His creative words. As this vast universe burst into being out of nothing, in obedience to the breath of His mouth (Psalm 33:6), God was resolved on a work so...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Is it not sweet to wonder at the delightful intentions in the mind of God as He created mankind, in His very image, with all that vast range of personal faculties? Is it not engaging to marvel at the enchanting intentions in the mind of Christ as...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
The Lovely Christ who, from birth was cast upon the loving care of His Father (Psalm 22:10) and who abandoned Himself to the kind intentions in His Father’s heart from the time he drew nourishment from His mother’s breast (verse 9),...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Is your heart aroused like David’s was by the thoughts of God toward you? This meditation should be taken further. In part 2 of this series we saw that verses 8-11 of Psalm 16 are applied to the Lord Jesus in Acts 2:25-28. Peter says,...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
How can you miss the intimate nature of this psalm? It breathes a deep, satisfying interaction between two persons. One of the persons is the great God who lives in unapproachable light (1 Timothy 6:16). The other is the ordinary man, David,...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
The fact that God intended for human beings’ scope of existence to be vast, thrilling and free (to a degree), is a wonderful thought. But as I said, this thought goes still deeper. I said in part 15 that Psalm 16 has some serious clues...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
For God, simple existence is a breathtaking experience. He has all the power in the universe, and all the freedom to do with it as He pleases, all the wisdom to plan His actions so that He can never fail or do something foolish, He can never do...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
I was shaken by the death of that young man. The reason I am telling you this is because I want to make a point regarding the capacities with which God created people. Suppose, while I was on that scene, a stray dog happened to trot by; how much...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
The first of the two questions has been answered from Eternal Pleasures 21. When reading those words, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness…” we hear God uttering a concept that is beyond our conception. He has a concept...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
As you read a text like Mark 1:10, it is difficult to miss the author’s choice of words. Many of the English translations suck the life out of this verse by translating the word schizo to make it equivalent to the bland word opened. There is...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
