Revelation 1:6-9 assures us that every eye will see Jesus Christ when He returns, yet how we will see Him—in earnest joy or abject fear. God counsels us to pursue peace and holiness with all people. When we revere God's name, …
"Speak, Lord, for Your servant hears." — I Samuel 3:9 Last month, we looked at the curse of broken homes. We noted the magnitude of problems fractured families spawn, as well as the vast emotional and economic costs they entail. …
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(23) All this I have proved by wisdom.
I said, “I will be wise”;
But it was far from me.
(24) As for that which is far off and exceedingly deep,
Who can find it out?
(25) I applied my heart to know,
To search and seek out wisdom and the reason of things,
To know the wickedness of folly,
Even of foolishness and madness.
(26) And I find more bitter than death
The woman whose heart is snares and nets,
Whose hands are fetters.
He who pleases God shall escape from her,
But the sinner shall be trapped by her.
(27) Here is what I have found,” says the Preacher,
“Adding one thing to the other to find out the reason,
(28) Which my soul still seeks but I cannot find:
One man among a thousand I have found,
But a woman among all these I have not found.
(29) Truly, this only I have found:
That God made man upright,
But they have sought out many schemes.”
God is allowing us some insight into Solomon's heart and life. He gifted Solomon with a proclivity for understanding and wisdom, but this passage reveals that achieving them did not come easy. The true God gifts us to enable us to …
About six millennia ago, two systems, two ways of living, briefly competed in the Garden of Eden when the first man, Adam, and his wife, Eve, chose to disbelieve God and go their own way. The Noachian Flood occurred roughly 1,650 years later. More than a hundred years later, another event confirmed our first parents’ choice for the post-Flood world. Paul states plainly in Romans 8:7, “Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.” By the time of the Flood, this carnal mind produced a society where “every intent of the thoughts of …
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