Daily Bread — Monday, October 7, 2024
You have made him a little lower than the angels, and You have crowned him with glory and honor. (Psalm 8:5) I've often wondered just what David meant by these words seeing that, in all of Creation, only mankind was created in the image and likeness of God. That being...
4 Tishri — The End Is Just The Beginning
In the Gospel of John, we are given the account of the sickness, eventual death and subsequent resurrection of Lazarus. One of the more interesting features in this particular story is Messiah’s delay in going to him followed with this statement in John 11:4: “This...
Daily Bread — Sunday, October 6, 2024
When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained, what is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him? (Psalm 8:3-4) We don't know exactly what night it was that David stared up at the...
3 Tishri — May Your Name Be Inscribed
It was on this day that Gedaliah ben Ahikam, governor of Judah after the destruction of the first Temple, was assassinated by other Jews at Mizpah (2 Kings 25:22-25). To commemorate this assassination and the dispersal of the Jewish remnant still left in the land of...
Daily Bread — Saturday, October 5, 2024
When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained, what is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him? (Psalm 8:3-4) Why does David not mention the sun along with the moon and stars?...
2 Tishri — Behold The Lamb!
Today is considered by Judaism to be the second day of Yom Teruah (a.k.a. Rosh Hashanah or “head of the year.”). And so on this day, the story of the akedah or “the binding” of Isaac, found in Genesis 22:9-10, is read in the synagogue. “Then they came...
Daily Bread — Friday, October 4, 2024
Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have ordained strength, because of Your enemies, that You may silence the enemy and the avenger. (Psalm 8:2) Throughout history, the wicked of this world have demonstrated their displeasure at the overwhelming evidence...
1 Tishri — Summoned From Suffering; Entering the Glory
Today is Yom Teruah (a.k.a. Rosh Hashana) or the Feast of Trumpets. According to tradition, there are several key events in history that happened on this day. For starters, tradition says that the creation of Adam and Eve occurred on this day. It’s also believed,...
Daily Bread — Thursday, October 3, 2024
O Lord, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth, who have set Your glory above the heavens! (Psalm 8:1) As a child, I would often lay in bed, and in the darkness, attempt to contemplate GOD -- the all-powerful, eternally existent Creator of heaven and...
29 Elul — No Excuses
Today is the last day in the month of Elul and it was on this day that tradition believes God created the sea creatures and fowls of the air. The Bible says: So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded,...
Daily Bread — Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Behold, the wicked brings forth iniquity; Yes, he conceives trouble and brings forth falsehood. He made a pit and dug it out, and has fallen into the ditch which he made. His trouble shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down on his own...
28 Elul — Shining His Light
Today, the 28th day of Elul, marks the commemoration of the fourth day of creation. According to Scripture, here’s what happened on the fourth day: Then God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let...