Daily Bread — Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Consider and hear me, O Lord my God; enlighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death. (Psalm 13:3) After questioning God four different times about “How long?” David petitions the LORD for three things in an attempt to assuage his loneliness and what he perceives...
26 Tishri — The Winds of Change
A wise old sailor once said, “No one can change the direction of the wind. All you can do is adjust your sails.” Its true: no person can turn a storm away, or diminish its intensity. All one can do is adjust to it. Likewise, we can’t control everything that life...
Daily Bread — Monday, October 28, 2024
How long, O Lord? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me? How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? How long will my enemy be exalted over me? (Psalm 13:1-2) In the previous devotion, I spoke of exile and...
25 Tishri — But What About Him?
Most everyone is familiar with a conversation between Yeshua and Peter that occurred after the Messiah’s resurrection. In John 21, the Messiah repeatedly asked Peter, “Do you love Me?” Peter responded by saying, “You know that I love You,” to which Yeshua said, “Well,...
Daily Bread — Sunday, October 27, 2024
How long, O Lord? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me? How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? How long will my enemy be exalted over me? (Psalm 13:1-2) Few are they who have not heard of David and...
24 Tishri — Goodbye To Me
It was on this day in the year 444 B.C.E. that Ezra and Nehemiah convened the Jewish community in Jerusalem in order to purge a contingent of pagan strangers from their midst, and to renew the ancient covenant. This is recorded in Nehemiah 9:1-2: “Now on the...
Daily Bread — Saturday, October 26, 2024
The words of the Lord are pure words, like silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. (Psalm 12:6) In sharp contrast to the words of those with wicked motives -- words that are worthless and unreliable -- the sayings of God are free of anything that...
23 Tishri — The End From The Beginning
Today, the 23rd day of Tishri, is called Simchat Torah or “Rejoicing in the Torah.” Today marks the end of the yearlong Torah reading cycle. In synagogues, our Jewish friends will reverently roll the Torah scroll all the way back to its beginning, to the book of...
Daily Bread — Friday, October 25, 2024
They speak idly everyone with his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak. May the Lord cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaks proud things, who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail; our lips are our own; who is lord over...
22 Tishri — Don’t Lose Your Cool
Today, the 22nd day of Tishri, is called Shemini Atzeret (the Eighth Day). Traditionally, it was on this day that Moses received the message that he was soon to die and that he would not enter into Canaan. This was greatly disappointing to Moses who, on more than one...
Daily Bread — Thursday, October 24, 2024
Help, Lord, for the godly man ceases! For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men. (Psalm 12:1) The word translated as “help” would be better rendered as “save.” The Hebrew word הושיע hoshia denotes the need to be rescued from certain peril, thus the use of...
21 Tishri — Hoshana Rabbah
Today, the 21st day of Tishri, is referred to as Hoshanah Rabbah, which is, literally, the “Great Save Us.” It was on this day that the priests performed the water libation ceremony, thus the reference to living waters by the Messiah in the gospel of John. “On the...