“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.” Philippians 4:13 I have read this scripture many times and often quoted it when I was needing strength for some task or situation in my life. But as I looked at the verses that go before it, I realized just…
“She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying. Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.” Mark 14:8-9 There…
“Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith. Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.” Proverbs 15:16-17 Recently my Daily Bible reading included the story of Ahab and his desire to obtain the vineyard of Naboth.…
“I don’t have nobody to blame but myself.” “Double negatives” are so confusing! There are also points in Scripture that are sometimes hard to grasp—that seem almost too good to be true. For example, some people think that the mercy of the Lord is applied only at the point of…
“I can’t do nothing right.” Yes, that is a double negative. We’re looking at how double negatives are considered “incorrect” and cause confusion in standard English usage—and also in our lives. I’ve heard someone say, “Because I sinned after I got saved—after the Lord filled me with the Holy Ghost—I…
“This sentence doesn’t make no sense.” A double negative is a sentence or clause using two negative words. The rules say that double negatives are not grammatically correct and should be avoided … when using standard English. In some languages, however, like Spanish, double or triple negatives are allowed and seen as…
In the last devotion, I told how, as a young girl, I loved to be free to “explore” our big empty church building when my mother would go there to prepare music for the Sunday service. How I loved that place! It felt like “home” to me—only more exciting! I…
When I was small, my mother would go to the church on off-days to practice music or prepare songs for our Junior Choir. She’d bring me along and let me wander the big empty church building as she did her work. Our church was a vast, exciting adventureland to a…
We don’t know what we don’t know. Selah. In our last devotion, we discussed how that trusting our feelings alone will not lead us to TRUTH. There’s so much we don’t know. Which is better … for something to FEEL true, or for something to BE true? For those who…