ObedienceTake heed, and hearken, O Israel; this day thou art become the people of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the Lord thy God, and do his commandments.' Deut 27: 9, 10. What is the duty which God requireth of man? Obedience to his revealed will. It...
A while ago, I read Jen Wilkin’s bookNone Like Himabout the attributes of God. One is His incomprehensibility. In it, she says, “God is incomprehensible. This does not mean that he is unknowable, but that he is unable to be fully known.” I have found that to be true each year...
Discernment then is necessary because God does not allow the wicked to hear the truth. There are those that will be lost into the mire of their own wickedness, never to know the blessings of a merciful, saving God. If we try to pursue teaching one who has a hardened heart, thinking th...
The ONLY piece of background is the opening verse, which is a strange verse in the Hebrew. The construction in the original over-emphasizes that it was GOD who initiated this test, and that it was GOD who spoke to Abraham. The narrator does not want us to assume this was Abe's standa...
If unconditional love, loyalty, and obedience are the tickets to an eternal life, then my black Labrador, Venus, will surely be there long before me, along with all the dear animals in nature who care for their young at great cost to themselves and have suffered so much at the hands of...
and through her sacrifices she feels whole and fulfilled. God is an independent Being who is self-sufficient and perfect; He does not require anything. God’s love is not based on a need or want; it is therefore the purest form of love, because He gains absolutely nothing from loving us...
a warm smile — really does matter a lot. If you gave most rabbinic sages a choice between someone who feels something but does nothing and someone who feels nothing but does something, they will always pick the latter. But the ideal is walking in God’s ways, which means being merciful...
It doesn’t sound anything like barking, as a human voice yelling at them does, so it startles them. DO NOT LEAVE THE TOSS CAN WHERE THE DACHSHUND(S) CAN CHEW ON IT! Containing pennies, there is danger of the dog(s) opening the cans and ingesting the pennies, leading to zinc ...
A vegan diet of an Orthodox monastic, does not come on it’s own. It comes as part of a whole “regime” of prayer, partaking the Holy Mysteries, the practice of humbleness and Holy (and God abiding) obedience and fasts. Thus, only then, can someone reap the benefits of fasting....
Shall I present my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? / He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?