The middle ground is where everyone is the same. But we don’t stay there. Some rise, some sink, some act justly, and some stink. God’s love is always in the middle. We start and end with two different kinds of rulers today. The one who listens to lies and the one who has compassion on […]
The one who doesn’t know when to shut up can make a MAJOR mess of things. The loud mouth seldom has anything edifying to say. His aim is to stir things up. Before we dig in, I have to make a distinction. There are people who like to visit with one another. They can talk […]
Our verse today speaks of the rights of the poor and who understands such things. It’s not the legal issues but compassion that the evil man doesn’t understand.
Weaving together lies or sneaky schemes is bound to get a man in trouble. He is building a net with his work that will bind him in it instead of another. When first reading this, I had to Google a word. I thought I knew the meaning, but the way it is used in the […]
Not Boaz and Jachin, the pillars of Solomon’s Temple, but wisdom and justice. Two crucial pillars of any law or healthy government. When the title “Two Pillars” first came to me I had to look up the names of the pillars in Solomon’s Temple. I wanted to know if their names were “Wisdom” and “Justice” […]
