Tabor: When God says, “This is the day!”
At Mount Tabor, God told Deborah and Barak, “This is the day I will give you victory over your oppressors.” What deliverance is he giving into your hands today?
At Mount Tabor, God told Deborah and Barak, “This is the day I will give you victory over your oppressors.” What deliverance is he giving into your hands today?
Oh Lord, our Lord, you commanded this blessing to be spoken, because you want to give it. How we need it! Breathe your blessing into us in a new, deeper way.
From its start, Passover has met God’s people at the intersection of pain and gain, and urged, “Go with God. He is so worth it.” A story of Christ our Passover.
I’d seen it in Scripture, yet had not seen: How strongly God commits himself to defend the forsaken. How strongly he urges his people to befriend the forsaken.
Deeply grieving, falsely accused, Job cried in anger. “It is God who has wronged me!” Sometimes, intimate conversations with God are passionate and fierce.
The Lord sees when the vulnerable are wrongly rejected. He hears when the helpless cry to him, and he champions them. Defender of the forsaken – this is God.
The name “I AM” is the Lord’s treasure detector. When Jesus says it, he is urging, “Search for treasure here. I want to show you more of who I AM.”
God taught them not to be driven by panic. He showed them the way of love. When our world has changed in frightening ways, their story can help us too.
It awes me again every time I see it. Leaning back on Jesus’ chest, at the moment of Jesus’ betrayal, John heard the heartbeat of God
It may be in a month that’s little noticed when the earth moves under you. And God says, “You’ve stayed here long enough.” And something within you shifts.