by MJR | Jul 18, 2023 | Genuine Hope
Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting! Psalm 139:23-24 I remember singing “Search Me” from our hymnal when I was a kid. I preferred the melody...
by MJR | Jul 17, 2023 | Genuine Hope
They called out in a loud voice, “How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?” Revelation 6:10 This weekend, Patrina and I watched Sound of Freedom, the story of one man’s effort to free children...
by MJR | Jul 14, 2023 | Genuine Hope
O God, if only you would destroy the wicked!Get out of my life, you murderers!They blaspheme you;your enemies misuse your name.O Lord, shouldn’t I hate those who hate you?Shouldn’t I despise those who oppose you?Yes, I hate them with total hatred,for your enemies are...
by MJR | Jul 13, 2023 | Genuine Hope
Your eyes saw my unformed body;all the days ordained for me were written in your bookbefore one of them came to be.How precious to me are your thoughts,God!How vast is the sum of them!Were I to count them,they would outnumber the grains of sand—when I awake, I am...
by MJR | Jul 12, 2023 | Genuine Hope
You made all the delicate, inner parts of my bodyand knit me together in my mother’s womb.Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion,as I was woven together in...
by MJR | Jul 11, 2023 | Genuine Hope
“To say that God is omniscient is to say that He possesses perfect knowledge and therefore has no need to learn. But it is more: it is to say that God has never learned and cannot learn . . . Could God at any time or in any manner receive into His mind knowledge that...
