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Monthly Archives: February 2015

Manna for Today

In Numbers 11, the “rabble” began to complain about the food. Then the children of Israel were influenced by the complaining and felt sorry for themselves. They remembered–they lusted after–the food they used to have in Egypt. They mulled it over in their minds…

In Your Favor Is Life

“In Your favor is life” Psalm 30:5  You alone lift me up. You are everything. You alone can fix things. You hold things together. You make things strong. You alone deserve praise. You get my thanks. You must be declared. You instead of others. You alone are…

Open My Ears, God

“Mine ears Thou hast opened…” Psalm 40:6 The Hebrew word for “opened” is “digged.” Eugene Peterson writes in Eat This Book: That these words literally mean “ears Thou hast dug for me. The psalm’s poet was bold to imagine…