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Old Testament

Getting To Know Ourselves

JOB 42:1-6 – Then Job answered the Lord and said: “I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted. ‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know. ‘Hear, and I will speak; I will question…

Does the Lord Get Our Best Or Leftovers?

EXODUS 23:19 – The best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the Lord your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.” Today’s scripture is God giving His people of old the descriptions and instructions about the laws concerning the Sabbath and festivals.  If we go all the way back to…

His Willing Heart

HOSEA 2:14–23 – “Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her. And there I will give her her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. And there she shall answer as in the days of her youth, as at the time when she came out of the land of…