Once God himself enters the world, then all revelation bows down to him and is ultimately fulfilled by him!
The Psalms are filled from beginning to end with the joyful declaration that God is the God of all the nations of the earth.
Death seems so ominous, so fear-producing. Yet even that final passage of death can be precious because it is the doorway into eternal life and everlasting fellowship with God and his saints.
Although we live in the twenty-first century, we still can see the widespread worship of false idols. Some worship the idols of money, houses, power, and position.
The psalm reminds us that as wonderful as it is to witness these dramatic events, redemption is no laughing matter.
Many things imprison us, but the truth of God’s Word remains unchanged, whether we feel it or not.
The emphasis on the heart and the inner life is a persistent and vibrant theme throughout the Old Testament. The difference between the two Testaments is found in the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
As we kneel, praying prayers of imprecation, we find that through God’s grace, a new prayer stumbling forth from our lips, asking God to awaken the wicked to the depth of God’s love for them.
Life is not a random sequence of days determined simply by chance or even by the feeble choices we make. Ultimately, our lives are in God’s hands.
God does not merely send us a message of comfort or pull some cosmic levers in the heavens that change our circumstances. God rescues us in our suffering by personally entering into the world of suffering.
In the book of Revelation, Babylon has become an iconic symbol of the embodiment of wickedness and evil. There it describes not just a punishment of judgment, but an eschatological destruction of evil, finally and totally.
Biblical love is not like the wavering flood of emotion that overtakes humans in some romantic surge; the love that God defines is a resolute disposition that acts on behalf of another, and does so relentlessly and redemptively.
