A MISSED TRAIN?

After my night shift today, I realised the earliest train I could get back home was the thirty-seven past the hour train hence the one due twenty minutes earlier was not up for consideration. Nonetheless, while I was on the underground, one stop away from the train station, I figured that if I run it... Continue Reading →

A CHOICE WITH CONSEQUENCES

Matthew 18:24, 25 And when he had begun to settle accounts, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents. But as he was not able to pay, his master commanded that he be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and that payment be made. This story always... Continue Reading →

HUMBLE ENOUGH TO LISTEN?

Reference text: 2 Kings 5:1-15 2 Kings 5:13 Naaman's servants went to him and said, "My father, if the prophet had told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more, then, when he tells you, 'Wash and be cleansed'!" The entire text for today is an interesting read... Continue Reading →

HAVE YOU FOUND WHAT YOU SEEK?

DAY 66 OF 365 IN 2021 1 Corinthians 1:22, 24 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:  But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. Sometimes, until we find exclusively what we are after on its own, we... Continue Reading →

TO A FAR COUNTRY

DAY 65 OF 365 IN 2021 Luke 15:13 And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. Whenever we look at the words of scripture, we realise that each one of them, each punctuation or conjunction is... Continue Reading →

[NON-] PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT

Genesis 37:3, 4 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours. And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.... Continue Reading →

SEE A PERSON, NOT JUST A NEED

DAY 63 OF 365 IN 2021 Luke 16:22,24 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of... Continue Reading →

YOU’RE NOT EXPENDABLE

DAY 62 OF 365 IN 2021 Jeremiah 18:18 They said, "Come, let's make plans against Jeremiah; for the teaching of the law by the priest will not cease, nor will counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophets. So come, let's attack him with our tongues and pay no attention to anything he... Continue Reading →

WILLING AND OBEDIENT

Isaiah 1:19, 20 If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land: But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. I find the order of words in today's text particularly interesting: 'if you are willing and... Continue Reading →

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