Now, we may not face the sort of military opposition that King David dealt with on a regular basis, the kinds of enemies that threatened to drag him off and kill him (verse 1). And we don’t know anything about Cush, except the fact that he was a member of…

What keeps you up at night? Do you wrestle with grief over lost loved ones or missed opportunities (verse 7)? Are you in pain, pining away from sickness or injury (verse 2)? Do you feel the guilt of things you’ve done or left undone (verse 1)? Are your problems so…

Even after a good night’s sleep, it’s easy for the problems of the day to come crowding in as soon as our feet hit the floor. So, how can we get the morning off to a good start, in spite of whatever pain or opposition we might anticipate? Well, notice…

Let’s face it – in the world today there’s plenty of love for worthless things (verse 2), things that make no lasting difference in anyone’s life: sex, drugs, money, pleasure. No, putting our faith in anything in God’s creation can only end in hopelessness, prompting the desperate question, “Who will…

It’s easy to think that God’s Old Testament Law, given as it was to an agricultural people some 3500 years ago, doesn’t really apply to us – and the people who first heard Moses speak these words were tempted to have the same reaction. For remember – all the adults…

Every year, we celebrate a national day of Thanksgiving, and I hope we all know that the whole point of that day is to give God thanks for our many blessings. But what should giving thanks to God include? Can we stop with a simple prayer, or does God expect…

Yesterday we saw that providing opportunities for work is one of the best ways to help those who are in need. Today, we see that prosperity for everyone depends on mutual trust. After all, it’s impossible for anyone to get ahead if the deck is stacked against him. So it…

How are Christians called to help the poor? In Moses’ time, children without fathers and older women without husbands had no one to care for them. And aliens were by definition people without roots in the community, without homes or land. And in an agricultural society, if you had no…

What does the Bible say about marriage and divorce? Quite a lot, for God is the One Who invented marriage after all. Even before sin came into the world, we have the beautiful story of the first marriage, which Genesis 2:24 describes this way: “Therefore a man shall leave his…

“You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and that the Lord your God redeemed you from there” (24:18). So, how should a free people live? Most obviously, they should help other people gain their freedom. In fact, God insisted that His people allow slaves who managed to…