BIBLE JOURNAL- Description
In these reflections, I take the risk of letting my mind go.
These are not sermons based on any sort of exegesis, nothing necessarily built on the core intent of the biblical text. If you want sermons, then meet me in another forum.
They are not even the result of Lectio Divina although that would more closely represent what I write here. I just allow myself to be free, free with God; and now, I have decided, also to be free with you too – sharing freely thoughts occurring as I read below the surface.
Psalm 53: Foolish ones
We met this psalm already, numbered 14 in the Book of Psalms. If good things are worth repeating, then foolish people need a reminder to awaken them, set them on their guard.
Psalm 52-Tell lies and time will tell on you.
If 3 “you love evil more than good, and lying more than speaking the truth”, then catch up time is bound to come, because truth can be concealed for only so long.
Psalm 51-Have mercy on me, O God
Is there ever a moment when such a prayer is inappropriate? Is there ever a time when we are squeaky clean in thought, word and action that we can be 100 percent
Psalm 50: Don’t forget God
How can we forget God? Even If we say we can’t, when our actions suggest that “we run things” and no one can challenge us, when we are the demigods, it is
Psalm 49: What riches?
Psalm 49: Someone titled this psalm, “The folly of trusting in riches.”