May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ,
through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the
world.
Galatians 6:14
The Time Will Come
For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine.
Instead, to suit their own desires,
they will gather around them a great
number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.
They will
turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.
But you, keep
your head in all situations, endure hardship,…
2 Timothy 4:3-5
Sons of Light
You are all sons of the light and sons of the day.
We do not belong to the night or to the darkness.
So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep,
but let us be alert and self- controlled. For those
who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk,
get drunk at night. But since we belong to the day,
let us be self-controlled, putting on faith and love
as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet.
For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive
salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Thessalonians 5:5-9
The Brink
People will oppress each other— man against man,
neighbor against neighbor. The young will rise
up against the old, the base against the honorable.
Isaiah 3:5
According to Isaiah 3:5 a society which fails to honor
the old is on the brink of destruction.
The Book of Leviticus by Gordon J. Wenham P.273
A Polished Arrow
He made my mouth like a sharpened sword, in the shadow of his hand
he hid me; he made me into a polished arrow and concealed me in his
quiver. He said to me, “You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will
display my splendor.” But I said, “I have labored to no purpose; I
have spent my strength in vain and for nothing. Yet what is due me
is in the Lord’s hand, and my reward is with my God.”
Isaiah 49:2-4
Return to the Lord
“Come, let us return to the Lord. He has torn us to pieces
but he will heal us; he has injured us but he will bind up
our wounds.
Hosea 6:1
Let us acknowledge the Lord; let us press
on to acknowledge him. As surely as the sun rises he will
appear; he will come to us like the winter rains, like the
spring rains that water the earth.”
Hosea 1:3