Simple Thoughts

  I'm going to walk you through something that caught my eye the other day and the resulting Bible search that followed... My daily Bible reading was in Hebrews recently and I read this passage that I had never really paid attention to before.   Therefore, when He came into the world, He said: "Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, But a body You have prepared for Me. In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You had no pleasure. Then I said, 'Behold, I have come--In the volume of the book it is written of Me--To do Your will, O God.' " - (Hbr 10:5-7 NKJV) This caught my attention because I did not recall a recorded instance in the Gospels when Jesus said this. I knew the writer of Hebrews was discussing Jesus though.   I love blueletterbible.com.   I looked up the commentary by David Guzik on this passage and this is what I found: "This quotation is taken from the Septuagint version of Psalm 40:6-8 (the Septuag...

I heard Misty Edwards sing a chorus one time and it has stuck with me though I have never heard her record it.   "The way of God is the wilderness. It's always been the wilderness. The way of God is weakness, voluntary weakness." The wilderness and voluntary weakness - those don't exactly sound like an easy lifestyle, does it. Yet Misty is right.   It's the way God works.   God draws us to the wilderness to test us, teach us, and encounter us.   A beautiful description of this is in Song of Solomon 8:5 which says "Who is this coming up from the wilderness, Leaning upon her beloved?" The Shulamite woman, a picture of the bride of Christ, came out of the wilderness leaning upon her Beloved, a picture of Jesus.   It is okay to have times of being in the wilderness.   As a matter of fact, God often draws us there for a purpose. John the Baptist was trained in the wilderness.   Jesus withdrew to the wilderness to fast. It is in the w...