8/4/1968 Exodus 4.2– ‘what is that in your hand?’ Moses was sent on an errand for his King. He needed credentials. God asked him— ‘what is that in your hand?’ It was only a shepherd’s crook, the tool of his calling. But when he obeyed God and cast it on the ground, it became something new, supernatural, terrifying. It required faith and courage to pick up the deadly serpent by the tail, but when Moses did so, he witnessed another... Read more

1/19/69 Mat. 11.2-3– ‘Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?’ John the Baptizer was a great character. Jesus said he was. He introduced Jesus to people. He prepared the way for the coming of Jesus. He did a marvelous work, but now he was in prison because he had dared take a stand for pure houses and righteous living. In prison he did some thinking and he wondered.  Always physically active, he was... Read more

    3/17/68 Gen. 28.16,17 ‘And Jacob said, surely the Lord is in this place, and I knew it not. This is none other than the house of God, the gate of heaven.’ Jacob, was like many of us. He was ambitious to do big things. But he was defeated, and his success was delayed. By great skill and cleverness he had won his objective–only to lose his faith and his peace.  He found himself in a wilderness. It was... Read more

10/13/1968 Genesis 1.3-16 Many of God’s purposes remain unrevealed to us. Some may be seen in his works, some in his Word.  The first of these in his Word give his reasons for creating the sun and the moon, called the greater and the lesser light. At times we wonder if the world could have been fashioned in a way to give humanking greater peace and security. There are the creeping things that annoy, the seas which endanger, the seasons... Read more

6/15/1969 1 Peter 1.7–‘that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it be tried by fire, might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ.’ People have always been surrounded by problems, dangers, temptations, and tragedies. Such experiences are not restricted to any generation. It may appear that calamity has fastened itself upon one nation, or upon a small group of nations, but a long view, covering... Read more

10/6/1968 Romans 1.16– ‘For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation.’ It is not a new Gospel, but the Gospel anew, which the world needs. It’s not a new Savior, but a new understanding of the salvation which he offers to all believers. Paul had experienced the transforming and sustaining power of the Gospel in his own life, and had seen its marvelous effects in many people. Therefore, in... Read more

1/5/1969 John 16.20-22– ‘Now you have sorrow, but your sorrow will be turned into joy for I will see you again and your heart shall rejoice, and that joy no one can take from you’ God’s gracious purposes are revealed in Jesus Christ, his well beloved Son. It is a purpose of love and is intended to bring joy into human hearts. Certainly, there is nothing that human beings so universally and ardently seek after as joy. But with countless... Read more

Luke 3.28– ‘Seth was the son of Adam, and Adam was the son of God’ Seth could not help being the son of Adam, nor Adam the son of God. This helplessness is a bit startling but it is true. But when we stop to think about life, we discover many things which cannot be altered.  We did not choose our parents, we did not choose the color of our skin, the place of our birth, the color of our... Read more

5/12/1968 Ephesians 2.10–‘for we are his workmanship.’ This word translated workmanship is the old Greek word for poem. A poem is a dream set into words.  God’s dream for his children is the realization of the divine preface found in Gen. 1-2. ‘Let us make humankind in our image and after our likeness’ He is at work doing that very thing in the workshop of our lives.  It is the majestic obsession of his heart.  The very same power with... Read more

1/12/1969 1 John 1.5 ‘God is light, and in him is no darkness at all’. How significant is this figure of speech? Without light we could not see, could not walk safely, could not live.  God is the source of our being, the home of our souls. In him we live and move and have our being. It is the light that paints the earth with color and makes the world a wonderland of beauty. So God shines upon the... Read more