God promises to send a forerunner to the Messiah, who will prepare the way by cleansing the people as a refiner would use fire or fuller’s soap. Being purified is not an easy task for the refiner or for the person who is being refined. But it offers us a chance to be free of our sins and evil ways and to have room for new and glorious growth in God.
God says before you were born, I knew you. God knows each and every one of us before we are born. What a thought. ...
Psalm 15 asks who may live in God's Holy house or on his Holy hill. We may is the answer. We may dwell with...
Ezra reads from the book of the law and interprets what he reads. The people hear the word and receive it. They bow and...