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I know that on occasion, I am sent into a situation as an emissary of Christ.  Surely it happens more than I realize, but there are times when it is crystal clear, and I need to be confident that I will speak as Christ wants me to speak.  This morning, I was reading through Exodus 4, and I was struck by the symbology of what God told Moses when he hesitated to act as God’s emissary to the slaves in Egypt.  Exodus 4:1-4 reads:
4:1 Then Moses answered, “But behold, they will not believe me or listen to my voice, for they will say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you.’” 2 The Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, “A …

Yesterday, my read-through-bible-in-a-year plan happened to consist of Genesis 41 and Matthew 13.  I say “happened to” because I saw a very interesting connection between them.

Genesis 41 talks about the Pharaoh’s dreams, where 7 seven skinny cows ate 7 seven fat cows, and then 7 whithered ears of corn ate 7 good ears.  Matthew 13 had Jesus’ parable of the sower, weeds, and mustard, accompanied with an explanation of why he talks in parables.  Let me show you the connections that I made.  It was pretty cool.  You can read along in the scriptures here if you like.

In Matthew 13:1-9, Jesus tells of different kinds of seeds.  Seeds along the path get eaten by the birds.  Seeds along …

My devotional for today was Genesis 27, where Isaac blesses Jacob, thinking it was Esau.  For those unfamiliar with that scripture, the gist of it is that Jacob’s mother Rebekkah convinced Jacob to steal his brother’s blessing from their father, Isaac.  At his mother’s behest, Jacob got two young goats.  She prepared them as his father liked, and then put the goat skins over Jacob’s neck and arms, so that his skin would feel like his brother’s.  Pulling this off required haste, and his father noticed.  Notice though how Jacob lies:
18 So he went in to his father and said, “My father.” And he said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?” 19 Jacob said to his father, “I am …

A few years ago, I spent some time on a website that debates Christianity.  It’s a great website, run by a Christian, for debating with atheists the logic behind believing in God.  I say it’s a great site, even though such debates can be harmful to a person’s walk with God, or at least harmful to mine.  The reason it is harmful is because God has gone to all this trouble to win your soul, and then you expose yourself to Satan’s arguments to persuade you otherwise.  Exposing yourself to Satan is never good, and while a single debate might not scathe you, continuous exposure will, and you might not even detect it, until one day you talk to God and cannot tell if He’s really …

I was reading Isaiah 63, where God describes His willingness to welcome back a rebellious Israel, and then describes Israel’s self-righteous position as they continue in their sin.  God is then quoted as follows:
Behold, it is written before me:
  “I will not keep silent, but I will repay;
I will indeed repay into their bosom
  both your iniquities and your fathers’ iniquities together,
says the LORD;
because they made offerings on the mountains
  and insulted me on the hills,
I will measure into their bosom
  payment for their former deeds.”
It makes me think about how we don’t really “get” God’s nature.  We’re confused by it, and so decide that it isn’t us that are confused, but man’s contradictory …

Isaiah 62 is a prophecy of Jesus’ wedding to New Jerusalem, as recorded in the book of Revelation.  Interestingly, this prophecy only makes sense to me if consider God’s Trinitarian nature. 
“…you shall be called by a new name that the mouth of the LORD will give.”
It’s the groom that gives a bride her name –> the Old Testament God will give Israel her name –> Jesus is the groom –> Jesus will give her a new name + Jesus and the Old Testament God are one.  

But, as I discussed in Jesus, the Father’s Proxy on Earth, Jesus in the Old Testament is always in the flesh, and the Father …