What frightens you? Is it the dark, or spiders, or heights, or public speaking, or snakes, or flying, or death? We all have our phobias. In this final speech of Psalm 2, God advises the kings of the earth what they should fear.
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We can learn a lot about a person’s character by how they handle disappointments and successes in life. Some people allow success to go to their head. Others use their success for the benefit of others. Likewise, there can be a contrasting response to disappointment. Some people become bitter and resentful. Others choose to learn and grow from these experiences. 1
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What comes to mind when you hear the word, Messiah? Is it the 2020 Netflix Messiah television series? Handel’s great musical composition? Or perhaps a promised and expected deliverer to an oppressed group or nation?
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How would you answer this question – what is humanity’s greatest achievement in the past 100 years? Creating vaccines? Breaking the DNA code? Splitting the atom? Creating the internet? Breaking the four-minute mile? Summitting Mt. Everest?
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Read moreHave you ever felt lost? Disoriented? Having no sense of direction?
I experienced this on my recent summer vacation. Surprisingly, we did not get lost driving through four provinces to our east coast destination. We had Google Maps and road signs which were excellent in guiding us there and back again.
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I get excited when I find one passage of scripture that’s virtually identical to another written by different authors at different times. In the case of Psalm 1, Jeremiah wrote exactly the same words to warn the nation of Israel. Was he copying the psalmist? I don’t know. But it makes me think that this piece of wisdom is very important.
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Head and Heart Collide 