PSALM 130:3

PSALM 130:3

If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? It is good to feel the weight of this sentence. Who could stand? If the holy God and creator of all life were to mark iniquity, we are done for. We miss this if we are merely comparing ourselves with one another; if […]

1 KINGS 14:8-9

1 KINGS 14:8-9

and yet you have not been like my servant David, who kept my commandments and followed me with all his heart, doing only that which was right in my eyes, but you have done evil above all who were before you and have gone and made for yourself other gods and metal images, provoking me […]

LEVITICUS 11:44-45

LEVITICUS 11:44-45

 For I am the Lord your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls on the ground. For I am the Lord who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.” Two things that stuck […]