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. ...
Moses comes down off the mountain with the two tablets of the covenant or the Ten Commandments as we know them. He has been...
The psalmist calls to the Lord. He declares that he is dry like the desert and he is faint but he continues to hope...