Yes, I’ve said this before, but I love this week’s name. Yahweh Tsidqenu. It’s got beauty and pathos and irony. Besides, Jeremiah used it. You know I love Jeremiah! Let me set the stage. Chapter 21 of Jeremiah occurs toward the end of King Zedekiah’s reign. It’s a message of utter destruction. 4 ‘This is what…
Is Yahweh still the Hope of Israel? Or has the Church replaced his chosen people? Yahweh keeps his promises. 31 “The days are coming,” declares Yahweh, “when I will make a new promise to Israel and Judah. 32 It will not be like the promise that I made to their ancestors when I took them by the hand and…
This week’s name is Miqweh Yisrael, the Hope of Israel. In her book Praying the Names of God for 52 Weeks, Ann Spangler quotes one of my favorite passages. 5 “This is what Yahweh says: Cursed is the person who trusts humans, who makes flesh and blood his strength and whose heart turns away from Yahweh. 6 He will be like a…
Hope. What a beautiful word. Dictionary.com offers the synonyms of longing, aspiration, and expectancy. Yes, and it’s so much more when we’re talking about the hope we have in Yahweh. It’s something we’re waiting for with confidence that it will be accomplished. Would it be irreverent to say that God has a flair for the dramatic?…
Growing up, I battled tremendous anxiety. My stomach would be in knots every morning before school. I was terrified that I would make a fool of myself in front of my classmates. To me, that meant anything from tripping on the playground to getting less than an A+ on an assignment. I did my best…