Today’s name for God is “Jehovah-tsidkenu” – “The Lord our Righteousness” (Jeremiah 23:6). It is a distinctly Messianic title. All the way through the Bible we see God as a “Righteous God” and One who demands that we are “holy” too (Leviticus 11:44; 19:2; 20:7; 7:26). And right through the Bible the way we are […]
Let’s look at “Jehovah-Nissi” today – it means “The Lord my Banner.” The children of Israel hadn’t travelled far in their journey from Egypt to the Promised Land before they were attacked by the Amalekites. The battle wasn’t of their seeking – they were unprepared and ill-equipped. Moses encouraged them, saying that he would stand […]
Let’s do another “Jehovah”(Yahweh) name today. A very familiar one – “Jehovah-Rohi” – “The Lord is my Shepherd”. The big thing it is saying is that He always provides “pasture” for His people. But there are lots of others things too. For example – it is beautiful poetry in English that we don’t want to […]
So as promised we begin today to look at the “names of God” in the Bible. We have looked at one name, the one that appears at the very beginning of the Bible – “Elohim” – it comes 2,570 times – and means “Absolute, unqualified and unlimited energy.” He is truly an OMNIPOTENT God! Let’s […]
There is only one verse we can look at today. You may find it rather surprising! “On the first day of the month were tops of the mountains seen,”(Genesis 8:5). The month here in Hebrew is the tenth month and that corresponds to our January. On the ark what an exciting discovery that must have […]
Winston Churchill once said of a political opponent, “ He has a genius for compressing a minimum of thought into a maximum of words.” The Apostle Paul on the other hand, had the genius for concentrating brilliant pen-portraits in very few words. For example: “Epaphroditus my brother and fellow worker” (Philippians 2:23). Epaphroditus is my […]
I’ve still got in mind a theme we looked at the other day, “Out of weakness were made strong,”(Hebrews 11:34). Is ill-health something that haunts you? Are you of nervous disposition – and know you are certainly not made of hero stuff? Think of Miss Frances Havergal – Spurgeon described her as “the sweetest of […]
I have a note in my bible next to Matthew 9:10 that tells me that the Revised Version margin says, “He reclined in the home.” In the Greek that is the usual idiom for, “at home.” It is a reminder that there is a whole world in a word: in the colour of an adjective, […]
One of the abiding images of the Bible is the “sacrificial Lamb”. It is there in Exodus as the people are redeemed from Egypt. It is there eight hundred years before Christ’s death in extraordinary detail in the writings of Isaiah. At the moment in my daily Bible readings, I am reading Revelation where the […]
“Out of weakness were made strong,”(Hebrews 11:34). I am a voracious reader of biography. I suppose few biographies have influenced Christians more in the last hundred years than Hudson Taylor’s and D.L. Moody’s. What was their secret? Here it is in Moody’s own words, “The Lord was looking for a man WEAK enough to use, […]
