By What a glorious eternity awaits us, but how difficult this world is in the meantime! Jesus is wonderful in every regard, but most of the people on this world seem to lack basic neighbourly love. Heaven is perfect, but this world is most certainly not. How do you maintain some
Glimmers of Hope in Genealogies of Death
Curiosity is the mother of all learning, and that is certainly true in your reading of God’s Written Word. It is often the most unexpected chapters in Scripture that fill us with a sense of meaning and purpose in this life. Genesis chapter 5 is one of those chapters. From
A Psalm About Political Chaos
Political chaos does not only affect politicians. Everyone under the rule bear the suffering of political chaos. The future of everyone seems bleak. Knowing that evil leaders are using national services to benefit themselves with no care for the average citizen fills us with anger, despair, uncertainly, a sense of
Christianese: Sanctification
Romans 6:5-14 deals extensively with the doctrine of sanctification in the believer’s life. Before salvation the believer was dead in his sin (Eph 2:1), but after union with Christ, the believer is now freed from sin to live as a slave of Christ. Sanctification is the means by which believers
Even If the Earth Changes; God Still Doesn’t
Is your faith set on this world, or on God? What I mean is, do the realities of God determine the strength of your faith, or do the realities of this world and it’s affairs determine the ups and downs of your faith? If all goes well, and then something
Praying With Those in Trouble
Psalm 28 is a prayer of a believer in a country that is in anarchy. It begins with a dismal hands-in-the-air despair over a worst-case scenario. It ends without any mention of an improvement in the situation. But believing David prays his faith out of despair and into hope in
Hope In a World With No Future
When the wicked rule, the hope of a nation falls. When the foolish abound, the hope of a successful life disappears. Yet, in God’s great wisdom, the book that contains the most practical look at life also contains assurance of hope. There is a future and a hope for every
Loving the Ancient Events In the Bible
Twice, once in the context of temptation to sin, and once in the context of endurance in the faith, the Apostle Paul writes this about the various events that are recorded for us in the Scriptures: “written for our instruction” Romans 15:4 and 1 Corinthians 10:11 Love this about the
The eyes of the suffering can look to God
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead 1 Peter 1:3 In a letter that is all about human suffering, Peter
Courage to die
Paul’s plan to die was to increase the worship of Heaven, but that did not make Paul callous to the earthly process of dying. He is a man who was much afflicted, perplexed, persecuted, and struck down by the suffering of this life. Paul’s plan to die included courage—courage enough to