Category: A Word With Friends
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Through His Blood
Thought for the Morning Genesis 3:21 Also for Adam and his wife the LORD God made tunics of skin, and clothed them. An act of disobedience against their Creator has brought sin into the world. These two realized they had done wrong against the Lord, and they tried to cover it with the sewn-up leaves of…
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Simply Trusting
“Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.” This charge by the writer of the book of Hebrews comes after a lesson from the history of the Israelites. Verses 7 through 11 are a quote from Psalm 95, and speak of a…
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God is Merciful
Hebrews 8:12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.” This New Covenant does not require continual sacrifices to deal with sin because the ultimate sacrifice has been made. In Hebrews 8.13 the writer refers to the Lord Jesus who has made the first…
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The Law: Our Tutor
Thought for the Morning Galatians 3:23-25 But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the law, kept for the faith which would afterward be revealed. 24 Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25 But after faith has come, we are no…
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Is not My Word like a fire?
“Is not My word like a fire” says the LORD, “And like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?” Jeremiah 23:29 Jeremiah is known as the “weeping prophet” who was rejected by the king of Judah and who lived through the taking of Jerusalem by the Babylonians. In this portion of Jeremiah’s writings, he…