Meditations: October 2025

The thorn pricks to wound and tear;
Grace’s needle pricks to stitch back together.

(2 Cor 12:7-9)

Crucify my anxiety on this truth:
The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases.

(Lam 3:22)

[[Why did they bring the adulteress to Jesus?
Why did he not condemn her?
Did she, understanding the weight of sin,
Beg to be judged by the friend of sinners?]]

[[John 7:53-8:11]]

Jesus,
I am wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.
Set my desire toward the riches of your glory.
Open my eyes to behold wondrous things from your law.
Clothe me in your righteousness.

(Rev 3:17-18; Rom 9:23; Ps 119:18; Isa 61:10)

Heaven is when we’ll finally have the time
To properly praise the Lord for all his grace.

The line between humility and humiliation is defined at the exact point I am afraid to be humble.

“For who knows, of men, what’s of a man if not the spirit of a man that’s in him? And so what’s of God nobody knows if not the spirit of God.”

(1 Cor 2:11, rough word study)

The Lord wills peace,
And he works reconciliation.

(Gen 9:8-17)

God feels for us love;
God takes in us joy;
God makes with us peace;
God has with us patience;
God shows to us kindness;
God manifests unto us goodness;
God keeps with us faithfulness;
God treats us with gentleness;
God exercises toward us self-control—
Against such, where is the Law?

(Gal 5:22-23)

The Son prayed, “Our Father,”
Numbering himself with us.
He prayed, “Forgive us our debts,”
Not because he incurred any,
But because he took ours for his own.

(Matt 6:9-13)

Christ sought the Lord with his whole heart;
He who was the Lord sought the Lord.
Did he pray for steadfastness to keep the statutes?
Did he who knew no sin, living among it yet require grace?
Could he not be put to shame because he despised the shame?
Did Christ consider the reproach of Christ greater wealth than any dignity?

(Ps 119:2, 5-6; Heb 12:2; 11:26)

If my debit on God’s grace is infinite,
Then the credit he brings to his glory is also infinite.

(Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP))

With the merciful you show yourself merciful;
With the blameless you show yourself blameless;
With the purified you show yourself pure;
With the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous;
Toward the scorner you are scornful,
But to the humble you give grace.
Whichever way a man reflects your image,
There your image is reflected.

(Ps 18:25-26; Prov 4:34)

As when a hungry man dreams,
And behold, he is eating,
But awakens with his soul not satisfied,
Or as when a thirsty man dreams,
And behold, he is drinking,
But awakens faint, his soul unquenched,
So has it been to awaken from sin,
And find desire unfulfilled.
But when the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion,
We were again like those who dreamed;
Then our mouths were filled with laughter,
And our tongues with shouts of joy;
Then it was said, The Lord has done great things for them—
The Lord has done great things for us:
We are glad.
Restore our fortunes, Lord,
Like streams in the desert,
Like rains on the prairie.
We have sown in tears;
Let us reap with shouts of joy.
We have gone out weeping,
Bearing your good seed for sowing;
Make us to come in with shouts of joy,
Bringing our sheaves with us.

(Isa 29:8; Ps 126; Luke 8:4-15)