Matt 7:13 (KJV) Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide [is] the gate, and broad [is] the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: {strait: or, narrow} 14 Because strait [is] the gate, and narrow [is] the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. {Because: or, How}
Hebr 11:13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of [them], and embraced [them], and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims> ["exiles"-RSV] on the earth. {in faith: Gr. according to faith} 1Pet 2:11 Dearly beloved, I beseech [you] as strangers ["aliens"-RSV] and pilgrims ["exiles"-RSV], abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
What a marvelous comparison! "The Light of the Morning", and "The Tender Grass"! But how natural and logical. The rain has fallen in the night, the morning light has driven away the clouds, and now the tender grass springs up out of the watered earth. What could be more beautiful or suggestive than this? King David, when he spoke these Words, was conscious of his own failure to meet the ideal, but he has the divine assurance of the coming of One from his own house who would meet the requirements, and that one --- Jesus!
Lord, give us a new conception of Thyself as beautiful "Tender Grass" upon which our souls may feast and feed. Amen.
...add a
| Essays | Bible F.A.Q.'S | Journal | Salt-Licks | Soul Food | Poems | Quotes |
| Books | Links | Testimony | Daygleans | Read-E-Mail | God's Names | Proverbs | -Home |