Exhortations for The Soul

Do you know that there are several instances in the Bible where it says that God repented?   I knew of one. It was not very long after God created the earth, including man and woman, gave them everything they needed to survive, yet, they yielded to temptation, and that lifestyle spread throughout the earth.   The place was becoming so evil that God looked down from heaven and was sorrowful. Genesis 6:1-7 NLT “Then the people began to multiply on the earth, and daughters were born to them. The sons of God saw the beautiful women and took any they wanted as their wives. Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not put up with humans for such a long time, for they are only mortal flesh. In the future, their normal lifespan will be no more than 120 years.” In those days, and for some time after, giant Nephilites lived on the earth, for whenever the sons of God had intercourse with women, they gave birth to children who became the heroes and famous warriors of ancient times. The Lord ob...

Don’t cast your pearls to swine. Have you ever heard of that saying?   It’s from Matthew 7:6 (KJV) - “Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.” While there may be different nuggets coming out of this verse, we know it is a metaphor or figure of speech Jesus used as He gave the Sermon on The Mount. He was not speaking literally. Here was Jesus delivering The Sermon on The Mount - a series of teachings to His disciples and a large crowd, much like the crusades and evangelistic meetings we hold today. After Jesus talks about judging others, He emphasises the importance of wisdom and discernment in sharing spiritual truths.   As I understand it, in Jewish culture, dogs were generally wild animals roaming the streets in packs looking for food and attacking weaker animals. Dogs were symbols of immorality, cruelty, vulgarity, and ignorance. They were uncultured. According...

I was watching a vlog on YouTube recently, where this father was giving an exhortation based on a sermon he heard at a funeral. I don’t know if you’ve ever heard such a message, but I had not. I did not hear the sermon at all, but what the man said on the vlog as he gave the gist of it, was so deep, it gave me food for thought. Think about it. There are two dates in our lives that we have no control over. The day we were born and the day we die.   But have you ever thought about how good or bad we do in terms of controlling what happens between those two dates? Many of us just go about our daily lives trying to make ends meet, taking care of ourselves and families, right? But today as we are called to think about the dash between these two dates, I ask the question, what are we doing in the moment? How are we living?   Are we taking the days for granted? We don’t actually think it’s a given that we wake up, but we act like it. Because sometimes we are so busy with the world th...