About the watchful light of God’s countenance, His face shining upon us, the psalmist turns from lament and plea to trust as he writes Psalm 4:1 Answer me when I call to you, O my righteous God. Give me relief from my distress; be merciful to me and hear my prayer. 2 How long, O […]
From the rising of the sun to the place where it sets, the name of the LORD is to be praised. (Psalm 113:3)
You are my lamp, O LORD; the LORD turns my darkness into light. (2 Samuel 22:29) God isn’t really a lamp. It’s poetic language to paint a picture of what God does: turning human darkness into light of life in His grace. Unlike a created lamp, we can’t turn God off and on. We can’t […]
Light Moves. That all by itself is quite remarkable. Unlike much of physical creation, it’s never stationary. It’s always moving, never sleeping, never stopped unless something extinguishes its source, blocks it from our view, or could absorb it completely. Not even black bodies as imagined by Gustav Kirchhoff or observable black holes do that. Some light […]
One of the interesting things about God’s creating light is His doing it for our benefit. He did it knowing He would be creating plants and creatures that required light to grow and produce. And creating people who would have the ability to see. He didn’t have to create us with sight, but He did! […]
Why did God start Creation with saying “Let there be light?” Well, I don’t know exactly why He created light first, but I can tell you why not. It wasn’t because He couldn’t see in the dark, like Dad needing to turn on the shop light to work in the basement. It wasn’t because light […]
What Should I Give Up for Lent? I actually get that question quite frequently. Let’s first say what giving something up for Lent doesn’t mean: It isn’t a weight loss strategy to get ready for swimsuit season. It isn’t something to tell all your friends about so they’ll think you’re spiritual. It isn’t about giving […]
Just a reminder about the Seminary Gal series for 2017 Lent Devotionals. It’s called Light: There’s Nothing Like It. Have you ever stopped to ponder how amazing light is? Even considering everything in the universe, there’s nothing like it. Light is in a category all by itself. From the beginning of creation, even a scientist’s Big Bang, […]
Open borders sound so nice, don’t they? Just like Open Society Foundations, a grant-making network group founded by a man named George Soros. Before you assume I’m going post-Christmas fruitcake on you, it’s my goal to be honest and even-handed. His name is familiar–to varying degrees–to those on the political right and the political left. […]
So friends, should we keep all the foreigners out of America? No refugees? No immigrants? Or just no Muslims? No, no, no, and no. Wrong political solutions one and all. To that they’re not-one-of-us mentality, it is written, Luke 9:50 “Do not stop him,” Jesus said, “for whoever is not against you is for you.” But shrewd doves, there is […]
