Brokenness – Page 3

Digging in Deeper: Isaiah 30:18

June 13, 2018June 6, 2018Leave a comment

“Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.” (ESV – Read the chapter)

The people of Israel were in a pretty hard spot. They had turned on the Lord. In fact, they had been turned away from the Lord for a long time. They had been turned away from the Lord for a long time and it was beginning to show. Their world was teetering on the edge. Some of them had started to realize just how dire their situation really was. They could read the international tea leaves. They saw the Assyrian army moving steadily in their direction, gobbling up nations in their path and spitting out nothing but ruin and destruction. But, instead of heeding Isaiah’s call to return to the Lord for their hope and salvation, they were running everywhere but to Him. Read the rest…

Digging in Deeper: Psalm 107:6, 13, 19, 28

October 13, 2017October 12, 2017Leave a comment

“Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress.” (ESV – Read the chapter)

This refrain echoes four different times in this Psalm. “Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress.” This was the God they served and the people of Israel experienced it over and over and over again. They found themselves in all kinds of trouble, most of which was of their own making. Each time they fell headlong into the mess and from the perspective of the moment, it looked like they were going to be goners. Read the rest…

Digging in Deeper: 1 Corinthians 1:27-29

August 5, 2017August 13, 2017Leave a comment

“But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.” (ESV – Read the chapter)

If we are going to be in a relationship with God, it is going to be on His terms, not ours. In spite of our sinful nature, we naturally recognize that there is something wrong with the world; something wrong with us. This is the result of our being created in God’s image along with the echoes of eternity still ringing in our hearts. Read the rest…