King David was a visionary.  He saw THE vision, lived it, fell from it, paid dearly for doing so, repented and lived the rest of his life with it fixed in his heart.  In the previous posting I repeated part of his Psalm 8 prayer to God in which he asked why He was so […]

“Where there is no vision, the people perish ….” (Prov. 29:18).  What am I doing here?  What is the purpose of this life?  Without THE vision supplied by the Lord one will never be able to answer those very important questions.  As I stated in the series titled Preparing for Eternity: The Purpose of Life, […]

What is true Biblical, God-supplied joy?  Does such joy come and go?  Does a true saint’s joy level rise when things are going good and decline when things are going badly?  Did the prophets and apostles joy fluxuate relative to their changing situations?  Was Paul’s joy the same when he was awaiting the downward thrust […]

When does God’s year begin?  What day must His people acknowledge (not celebrate) as the Biblical beginning of the new year?  Before we allow Him to answer for Himself, a little history is in order.  Let us return to the time when the children of Israel find themselves in a land not their own.  For […]

Though the annual holiday has long passed, I will take the liberty of writing about it for the sake of those who might be planning to celebrate it next year.  Like most people my age (I will be 80 in April), I participated in New Year’s festivities in days of yore.  On January 1 businesses […]

The term “gas light” comes from the world of entertainment.  However, what entertainers do in the physical realm is often aa reflection of what has been taking place in the spiritual realm for some time.  As I have pointed out on several occasions, as goes the church, so goes the society.  What becomes an established […]

The Biblical words “you,” “ye,” “you-ward,” “yourselves,” “your,” “yours,” etc. number in the hundreds and are found throughout God’s Word.  The question all honest Truth-seekers MUST ask themselves is: Do those words and the statements in which they are found apply to me personally, now, in this situation, in this life?  The answer is: IT […]

In the previous series we learned about a Samaritan (heathen–Gentile–“dog”) woman with whom Jesus had a interesting conversation.  I explained that the Samaritans had been taken from their homeland following a war with the Assyrians who had moved them to the northern part of the Promised Land, called Samaria, where ten of the tribes of […]

In John 4:23,24 Jesus makes a statement that must be understood in order to inherit salvation.  He states that, because God is a spirit, true saints must worship Him “in spirit and in Truth” (vs 24).  In the previous verse He said that God seeks those who will worship Him “in Spirit and in Truth.”  […]

In the 4th chapter of John’s gospel we read about an incident in the life of Jesus that has significance for anyone desiring to live eternally with Him in the Kingdom of God.  Jesus and His disciples had left Cana of Galilee where He had performed His first miracle by turning water into wine.  From […]