Tag: Morning Musings

Morning Musings: Ezekiel 1:1-3

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“In the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I was among the exiles by the Chebar canal, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.  On the fifth day of the month (it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin), the word of the Lord came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the Chebar canal, and the hand of the Lord was upon him there.”  (ESV – Read the chapter)

Ezekiel is a wild book.  Of all of the prophets, much of his work has always been some of the hardest to understand for me.  With that in mind, these first three verses are really important.  You see, as wild as some of Ezekiel’s visions were (and as you read the rest of this chapter, they start out pretty wild), they really happened to him.  They may have stretched the limits of what he was able to mentally process, much less try and explain to someone else, but there was a clear and firm historical context to them. Read the rest…

Morning Musings: Psalm 119:140

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“Your promise is well tried, and your servant loves it.”  (ESV)

I love what this is saying here.  When it comes to the promises of God, we don’t have some beta version of a program that doesn’t yet have all the bugs worked out of it.  We have something that was not only true and reliable from the start because of its source, but something that has also been tested and tried by hundreds of millions of users along the way. Read the rest…

Morning Musings: Psalms 119:136

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“My eyes shed streams of tears, because people do not keep your law.”  (ESV)

How do you feel about God’s commands?  Here in v. 136 of Psalm 119, the psalmist has poured hundreds of words into his proclamation of his love for and devotion to God’s law.  Here he lands on an idea that is worth considering for a moment.  Again: How do you feel about God’s law? Read the rest…

Morning Musings: Proverbs 26:4-5

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“Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself.  Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.”  (ESV)

One of the most common criticisms of the Bible (usually made by people who have either not read it at all or else not read it closely) is that it is full of contradictions.  Places like this give these folks a great deal of ammunition.  At first read and even second and third, this is obviously a contradiction.  As one commentator noted, if these verses were located in different parts of the Bible it would seem the contradictory nature was exceedingly obvious. Read the rest…

Morning Musings: 2 Timothy 3:12

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“Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.”  (ESV – Read the chapter)

Here is another place where we get realism instead of encouragement.  Yet how important is this reminder for those who are following Jesus?  If you want to follow Jesus well, you are going to face persecution of some kind.  In fact, if you’re not facing at least some amount of persecution, you may want to look at how you’re doing in the faith. Read the rest…