It is the resurrected Christ and the empty tomb, which alone, washes us all of our “foolishness” and sets our feet firmly with Christ in the way of the righteous.
The important lesson from Psalm 13 is to never forget in your times of darkness what God has revealed in the times of light.
The psalms remind us that despite the final assurance we have, we still live in the daily tension that not all things are yet submitted to God.
The throne of God is the great immovable fact of human history.
The righteous will find in the end that the afflicted will be heard, the fatherless and the oppressed will be comforted, and today’s terror will be replaced by the joy of his divine presence.
Sometimes praying for divine intervention means that our answers will have painful, but redemptive goals.
Although Jesus is the second person of the Trinity—co-equal, co-eternal, and consubstantial with God the Father—he nevertheless entered into humanity for our sakes.
Psalm 7 portrays God as the great warrior who stands by our side in the battle against evil in which we are engaged.
Sin is the stubborn alignment of our lives with the whole cosmic rejection of God.
When the Bible refers to love and hate, it does not correspond particularly well with the ways those two words are used today.
As Christians, we remember that God sent his Son into the world to restore the honor that rightly belongs to him.
We pray for our enemies, even as we ask God to put an end to all the schemes of wickedness, which are expressions of that great spiritual conflict.
