Hairy Crowns

The hair is the ‘glory’ (1 Corinthians 11:15) of a woman and the strength of a man. It is the essence of a person. In fact, one regulation was, ‘Priests must not shave their heads or shave of the edges of their beards or cut their bodies. They must be holy to their God and …

Diseases of Egypt

More terrible than the plagues inflicted on the Egyptians, were the lingering diseases that could not be shooed away. Even though the Israelites were not afflicted by the plagues, the diseases of Egypt latched on them so that even though they came out of the country, Egypt did not come out of them. This is …

For God’s Sake

‘For the sake of his great name the Lord will not reject his people, because the Lord was pleased to make you his own’ ~ 1 Samuel 12:22 We humans are born clueless and into a cruel world. As we grow up we realize that there is a 'force' bigger than ourselves. Most call it …

Escaping the Corruption

Escaping is not the same as avoiding. We escape what is part of us, and avoid what is not part of us. The Christian life is a maze that seeks to escape the corruption that come up as we go about our journey, a corruption that exists within and around us. In other words, corruption …

Cleansing the Bloodline

After the Fall, humans became compromised and sinful. Adam’s children born ‘in his own likeness, in his own image’ (Genesis 5:3) shared the same fatal DNA, and not before long, one killed the other. Man no longer had the image of God, but of self. Since then, we became known as the fallen race. Seeing …

The Time of God’s Visitation

‘They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not know the time of your visitation’ ~ Luke 19:44 Jesus speaking of the destruction that will befall Jerusalem ties it to their ignorance of not recognizing when God was among them. He says, ‘If you, even you, had only known on this day …

Sharing in the Sins of Others

‘But because of you the Lord was angry with me and would not listen to me’ ~ Deuteronomy 3:26 One of the things Moses recalls about Israel’s exodus from Egypt to the Promised Land, and their wanderings in the desert was how he himself suffered because of the people’s rebellion and sin. Like a constant …

Thorns, Bristles and Briers

A few of David’s last words were, ‘But the sons of Belial (Satan) shall be all of them as thorns cast away, because they cannot be taken with hands. Whoever touches thorns uses a tool of iron or the shaft of a spear; they are burned up where they lie’ (2 Samuel 23:6-7). When God …

Standing in the Gap

‘He stood between the dead and the living and the plague stopped’ ~ Numbers 16:48 The distance between man and God is the deepest deep and the widest breadth. Adding rebellion and unrepentance to the chasm, the deeper and wider it gets. When Korah, Dathan, Abiram, and 250 of their followers opposed and rebelled against …

Under Vows to God

‘I am under vows to you O God; I will present my thank-offerings to you. For you have delivered me from death and my feet from stumbling that I may walk before God in the light of life’ ~ Psalm 56:12-13 A Believer is under vows to God, a vow that must be fulfilled. That …