It Is Better to Know God

Psalm 88:1 O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee Dad and Mom know all the answers until a kid gets to be about six years old. Someone has said, “Fools can ask questions that wise men cannot answer,” and a little kid can ask all kinds of...

Selfish Prayers Don’t Include God

Psalm 83:1 Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God Is praying selfish? Usually when we pray, we say, “Dear God, I need, I want, give me, my, and mine.” We can think that is selfish, and it certainly can be. Psalm 86 basically begins,...

When Are You in Your Prime?

Psalm 71:14 But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more I don’t know if you have watched the Presidential debates of late, but recently I thought about what the debate would look like if it had taken place thirty years ago. By that I mean, it...

To Regard God

Psalm 66:20 Blessed be God, which hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me The other day I was reading a book, and I heard my wife in the next room. I was vaguely aware of her speaking. Then, I was vaguely aware that it was in the form of a question, so I...