Category: Psalms
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Only be strong
The LORD your God himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations before you, so that you shall dispossess them, and Joshua will go over at your head, as the LORD has spoken. Deuteronomy 31:3 Joshua very much foreshadows the work of Christ and the spread of the gospel into the world. God […]
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The Glorious Church
“Who is this who looks down like the dawn, beautiful as the moon, bright as the sun, awesome as an army with banners?” -Song of Songs 6:10 Too often the Church is viewed as merely spiritual, with no real power or purpose on earth other than to save souls. The idea of the church just hanging on […]
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The devil is God’s plaything
Will you play with him as with a bird, or will you put him on a leash for your girls? -Job 41:5 It is with reference to nature, then, and not to the wickedness of the devil, that we are to understand these words, “This is the beginning of God’s handiwork;” for, without doubt, wickedness […]
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Cast into good
It is good for me to be united to God. (Psalm 73:28) Among philosophers it is a question, what is that end and good to the attainment of which all our duties are to have a relation? The Psalmist did not say, It is good for me to have great wealth, or to wear imperial […]
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Psalm 5
Psalm 5 is laid out chiastically in a broad pattern and closer in. Broadly it can be broken up as: A. prayer to God B. evildoers will not stand C. the righteous fear God B’. evildoers are cast out A’. praise to God Even in a brief overview, the psalm shows that we can and […]
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The will of God
From David Chilton’s Days of Vengeance, regarding Revelation 17:17: The sovereign Lord is thus not at the mercy of the Beast and his minions; rather, all these events have been predestined for God’s glory, through the execution of His decrees. For God has put it into their hearts to execute His purpose by having a […]
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Enjoyment and entertainment
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. He could have left it without form, without color or variation. He could have made it without hills and mountains and valleys. Without streams and lakes and oceans. Without trees and birds and leafy sea dragons. All those colors in the sunset really aren’t necessary. […]