Dim Eyes
Timeless truths have a way of sneaking up on you. I was re-reading the poems of Anne Bradstreet, America’s first lady of verse, when I came across this among her meditations: “Dim eyes are the concomitants of old age, and shortsightedness in those that are eyes of a republic fortells a declining state.” I immediately […]
Psalm 143:143:1-2 A Psalm of David. Hear my prayer, O LORD; give ear to my pleas for mercy!
Psalm 143:143:1-2 A Psalm of David. Hear my prayer, O LORD; give ear to my pleas for mercy! In Your faithfulness answer me, in Your righteousness! Enter not into judgment with Your servant, for no one living is righteous before You. Lord, there is none righteous but You in Your great mercy have cleansed me […]
The First Commandment
1.3 Exercise stewardship unto the Lord
Believers are called to be good stewards unto the Lord, to use their personal property as a way of demonstrating and reinforcing their separateness unto the Lord. The tithe, the selling and redeeming of the land,, and the practice of devoting things to the Lord all provided ways for the Lord to remind His people that the earth and everything in it are His, and that they must express in tangible ways that they are a people holy to the Lord.