Devotional Thoughts

Psalm 6:8-9      "Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping.  (9)  The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer." Yesterday's Psalm was written while listening to the soft sound of the flute. Today, we see this Psalm was written "To the chief Musician on Neginoth upon Sheminith." According to Strong's Concordance " Neginoth upon Sheminith" was an 8 stringed instrument that had a heavier sound. At the risk of repeating myself, I think about myself  in these two Psalms for more than one reason. I listen to different types of music depending upon the mood I'm in. Do you? Or do you have just one certain type of music that you listen to? If so, that's good that the music speaks to you. As I said yesterday, I love the old hymns of faith and I love Southern Gospel music, but there are times when I want the music from the 60's. Other times, I want the sound of country mus...

James 4:13-15     “Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.” We use a phrase in our language today when someone says something that goes against reason: “oh, come now!” From what I can understand, this is the same thing James is expressing with “Go to now.” He is admonishing us that taking the position that we will, on our own, go and do anything is against reason or common sense. It is something we do all the time. “I’m going to the grocery store this afternoon” or “we are going on vacation next week” and similar expressions are heard every day. James is, in effect, saying we should know better. The structure of our daily lives lends itself to erroneous...

Psalm 5:3     "My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up." My intention was to pick one verse or one thought from each Psalm when I began this current study. But the last two words of today's verse kept glaring at me all through the day yesterday. There is something about those words, "look up," that caused my mind to keep thinking about them. We all have seen the cartoons, or the real life times, when someone was so caught up with what they were doing that they walked into a pole. In this day and time, it's usually their phones that have captivated their attention. For me, my incident was when I was in the fifth grade at good ole Union Elementary. I believe the flagpole is still there to this day.  That's right, I was not looking where I was walking and as a result, I wound up at the doctor's office receiving stitches just above my eye. I'm sure the scar is still there. ...