Fruit or Fruits?

Dear Jesus - I praise You for the quality of life You long to give each of us.  Help us to really understand that truth in the deepest parts of our soul...

Galatians 5:22-23

New American Standard Bible (NASB)

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Have you ever noticed that verse 22 says 'fruit' not 'fruits'? 

Forest or the Tree...

Dear Jesus - Please send Your Spirit to soften our hearts and open our eyes to the truths You have for us....

When I first started studying the Bible - as opposed to reading it - I was all excited to do a big old study.  Committed.  Going to put all this into practice with my daily Bible reading plan I was doing a the time.  The very next morning upon my return home, I excitedly opened my daily reading plan to see what would be there.  Genesis 38 was there.  I can think of probably less than 5 other chapters in the Bible I find more disgusting.

Manna - What Is It?

Coriander Seeds

Dear Jesus – Help us to see the supernatural quality of the manna we read about in the Exodus experience.  Reveal to each of us the relevancy it has to our very specific lives.

What do we know about manna?  Possibly from childhood stories, we recall it was a rather mysterious food that fell from heaven providing sustenance for the Israelites during their days wandering in the wilderness.  Just that brief synopsis gives us much to think about.  Let’s do some comparisons:

A Re/Creation Moment

An Eagle Fluttering His Wings..

Today a co-worker and I struck up a conversation about his amazing eagle pictures.  Which got me thinking of this blog, eagles, the Bible and a talk I heard a few years ago.  The speaker was an Old Testament Hebrew professor and the Holy Spirit buried her words deep in my mind as she spoke with passion about the beauty of the creation moment.  Today I decided to check the text out for myself - join me?