HEBREW WORD STUDY – RUNNING AWAY FROM GOD

by | Dec 11, 2014 | Devotionals

Jonah 1:3 “But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.”  KJV   Jonah 1:3: “But Jonah ran away from the Lord and headed for Tarshish.”  NIV   I remember as a six year old sitting in Sunday School in Beginner’s Church listening to my...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – GOD WEEPS

by | Dec 6, 2014 | Devotionals

  Deuteronomy 31:18: “And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods.”   There is a story told by Abraham Heschel a Jewish philosopher.  Abraham Heschel  often referred to...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – BEING ANGRY WITH GOD

by | Dec 5, 2014 | Devotionals

  Job  27:3 “All the while my breath is in me but the Spirit of God is in my nostrils.”   Translators have really played around with this verse.  No one seems to know for sure whether to render this as the breath of God is in my nostrils or the Spirit of God...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – REASONING WITH GOD

by | Dec 2, 2014 | Devotionals

  Job 13:3: “Surely I would speak to the Almighty and I desire to reason with God.”   I really can’t blame Job for wanting to reason with God.  After all, God can be so unreasonable at times.  I know I would like to just sit down with Him and explain my...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – A WORLD OF ILLUSION

by | Nov 6, 2014 | Devotionals

  Ecclesiastes 5:19: “Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth and hath given power to eat thereof and to take his portion and to rejoice in his labor, this is the gift of God.”   Ecclesiastes 6:2: “A man to whom God has given riches, wealth...