God could have rescued the Israelites from Egypt without Moses’ help. But He chose to do it through Moses. Appearing to Moses at the burning bush, the Lord said, “I have observed the misery of my people in Egypt … and I have come down to rescue them” (Ex. 3:7-8). Then the surprise, “therefore, go,…
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Why do we love to read the Psalms? One reason has to be the emotional connection we make with these inspired poems and hymns. They have a way of slipping past our mental defenses and pretensions to touch the raw nerves of our true feelings. They describe our thoughts and emotions with amazing precision. Then…
Read MoreIn Psalm 141:5, David called upon God to use a righteous man to rebuke and discipline him. He asked that wise people would help restrain his lips (v 3), heart (v. 4), and actions (v 4). He declared that he would treat these words offered to him in rebuke as the anointing of oil on…
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1. He forgives our transgression (Ps. 32:1,5). David sought and received God’s forgiveness. The Hebrew word for forgiven literally means “lifted off.” The image was portrayed in John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress. Bunyan’s protagonist, Christian, was weighed down by the burden of his sin. When he came to the cross, the sin burden fell from his…
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