
God’s Glorious Holiness
Read: Psalm 99 Exalt the Lord our God; worship at his footstool! Holy is he! (v. 5) We often think of holiness as “the absence of sin,” but when we
Read: Psalm 99 Exalt the Lord our God; worship at his footstool! Holy is he! (v. 5) We often think of holiness as “the absence of sin,” but when we
Read: Psalm 90 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God. (v. 2) The COVID-19
Read: Isaiah 40:18-31
To whom then will you compare me, that I should be like him? says the Holy One. (v. 25)
“That’s apples to oranges!” we say when two things that are essentially different are being compared. It’s an interesting idiom; actually, apples and oranges have lots of things in common. They are both fruit, they both grow on trees, and they are both delicious and nutritious. It’s not like comparing apples to Rottweilers—or Sherman tanks!
Read: Isaiah 40:6-17
Who has measured the Spirit of the Lord, or what man shows him his counsel? (v. 13)
It is human nature to try and “humanize” God; we seek to understand him by bringing him down to our level. Sometimes we refer to God as “the man upstairs,” or make jokes at his expense. Sometimes we accuse him of being unfair or unkind and demand an explanation for his actions. Our minds may picture him as a kindly old grandfather or an uncaring bureaucrat. In other words, we seek to make God in our own image.
Read: Matthew 22:34-46 If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son? (v. 45) About 1,000 years after the glorious kingdoms of David and Solomon, a son is
Read: Psalm 72:1-17 May all kings fall down before him, all nations serve him! (v. 11) We have spent some time looking at the life of Solomon, but what are
Read: 1 Kings 11:29-43 And Solomon slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David. (v. 43) Nathan the prophet stood boldly in the king’s throne room
Read: 1 Kings 11:1-13 And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice.
Read: Deuteronomy 17:14-20 And he shall not acquire many wives for himself, lest his heart turn away. (v. 17) If you’ve been on this earth for a while, you’ve seen
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