Someone has wryly noted that “it is hard to see the big picture when you’re inside the frame.” Because of our extremely limited perspective, life does not always make sense to us. This was the case for the penman of Psalm 44. …
Some difficulties in life may go away without a fight. Depression, however, is not one of them. Psalms 42 and 43 indicate that the dark foe called depression attacked David and sought to overwhelm and destroy him and his faith using three tidal…
Few people have fought their way out of the deep, dark pit of depression better than David and Job did. Each did it without a medical doctor’s prescription! Send article as PDF
In Psalms 42 and 43 we find David in the deep, dark pit of depression. Because of all the superficial, always-be-positive cheap imitations of faith in our world today, the thought of a godly man having to deal with depression is unthinkable. Yet,…
Because He was made like His brethren in all things, Jesus experienced the vile and vicious treatment described in Psalm 41:7-9. Here it is written: “All who hate me whisper together against me; against me they devise my hurt. ‘An evil disease,’ they say, ‘clings to him. …
The law of sowing and reaping is universal—you reap what you sow, you reap later than you sow, and you should reap more than you sow. Though there may be occasions in your life when it appears that this law has been violated,…
The transmission—or copying—of the books of the Bible is a most amazing study. Prior to the creation of papyrus (the ancient equivalent of paper) and thus the ability to put all the books of Scripture into one volume, each Bible book was contained…
The Bible is full of beatitudes. The book of Revelation alone has seven in it. The greatest sermon in human history begins with an entire octave of beatitudes (Matthew 5:3-10). The very first word in the book of Psalms is “blessed”. Psalm 40:4 pronounces…
The most frequently recorded exhortation of Jesus involves using one’s ears to hear. “He who has ears to hear, let him hear” is found eight times and “He who has an ear, let him hear” is found seven times in the New Testament. …
The Bible’s objectivity eliminates the possibility of flattery or undeserved praise. Therefore, when David is described by an inspired penman as being a man after God’s own heart, a wise Bible student diligently seeks to identify and then imitate those godly characteristics he…
