The last chapter of Proverbs is best-known for its section on the “virtuous wife” – that ideal woman of dreams. But she is actually the third of three sections in chapter 31. Like in chapter 30, we know nothing of Lemuel or his mother, except that he was a king and that God’s people recognized […]
The king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord like channels of water; he turns it wherever he wants. (21:1) I think this concept is giving a lot of people hope right now in the middle of our current government situation. Part of God’s sovereignty is that even human government (established by God in
Working steadily through Isaiah we come to 1:4 – “Alas, sinful nation, people weighed down with iniquity.” (NASB) Under the crushing weight of accumulated iniquities the whole nation is pictured as bowed and weighted down. … How can iniquity rest heavily upon a person or nation? Iniquity itself is something intangible, and hence cannot be
