Daily Meditations on the Bible / We stand with Israel
All they asked was that we should continue to remember the poor, the very thing I had been eager to do all along.
Summary: Being God is a bit like being a parent. As parents, we want our children to learn to do good and avoid doing evil. But we can’t live our children’s lives for them.
Continue reading “Galatians 2:10 – God’s Pickle”And what does the Lord require of you?
Summary: History offers us a choice of following man-made rules or following God. It is wise to choose God even when we seem to be breaking the rules.
Continue reading “Micah 6:8 – Rules”
“Leave her alone,” Jesus replied. ‘’It was intended that she should save this perfume for the day of my burial. You will always have the poor among you, but you will not always have me.”
As we see in every case where Jesus is attacked, his response is pitch perfect. He does not respond out of anger or out of fear. His perspective on the situation remains perfectly balanced. He knows who Judas is and what he will eventually do. (John 6: 70) So how does he respond?
Continue reading “Pitch Perfect – John 12: 7-8”