Today’s Meditation: One who judges assumes himself as a judge. Such act is a blasphemy to God by taking away His authority. Thus, God will question him. We may not think that judging is a sin. However to God, it can hurt those who are being judged to destroy them. Therefore, this...
It also serves as a reminder of the covenant relationship between God and His people. and they are to judgeThe Hebrew word for "judge" is "שָׁפַט" (shaphat), which means to govern, vindicate, or punish. This role is not merely about making decisions but involves a ...
Verse Concepts but whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him: 1 Peter 2:9 Verse Concepts But you area chosen race, aroyalpriesthood, aholy nation,a people forGod’sown possession, so that you may proclaim the excelle...
while Isaiah 40:26 reiterates, “Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens: who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one and calls forth each of them by name. … not one of them is missing”. These verses indicate how ...
Today’s Meditation:God is God for everyone. He will judge all with a common principle (righteousness, justice, unbiased). Anyone or race has no privilege in front of God. Although Paul was referring to the Jews in this chapter, the principle can still be used on us. We should not thin...
All three are simply different ways we see God as humans. God's Grace in Justice and Holiness There is another set of attributes for God that might seem at odds with grace. God is just, righteous, and holy. These reflect God as a judge who rewards good behavior and punishes bad. The...
No undue stress is to be laid upon the epithet "righteous," as if it were "a token of the righteousness of God's judgment;" the point is only to indicate already what a fair judge was likely to decide. That ye may be counted worthy.--This expresses the result, not of the future ...
1 John 4:16-21 We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He...
Well those verses from Psalm 29 have not left me. They talk about “the voice of the Lord splitting cedars” – that was evident in the destruction in Parkersburg. As I read further, I was surrounded by incredible peace when I read, “the Lord is enthroned above the floods.” Ps 29:...
“How merciful is our God. How kind. How patient. How reluctant to judge and how desirous to save!”- Gavin Cox “Christians are able to learn how to stand firm through trials until God, in His timing, removes them.”- K. M. Logan ...