Genesis Road

God is the difference between failure and success.

Kelley Lorencin — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:00:35 +0000

Psalms / chapter 124 (read the chapter) “If the Lord had not been on our side . . .” begins the psalm for today. Well, that’s a scary proposition! Yet every heathen religion is based on the idea that there is a god who is not for us, a god who is angry with us, a [...]

God is a giving Master.

Kelley Lorencin — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:00:23 +0000

Psalms / chapter 123 (read the chapter) Again in this psalm, we are lifting our eyes. But this time, we aren’t stopping at the mountains: “I lift up my eyes to you, to you who sit enthroned in heaven. As the eyes of slaves look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a female slave look [...]

God loves peace.

Kelley Lorencin — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:00:16 +0000

Psalms / chapter 122 (read the chapter) I think it has to be one of the most universal things we believe about God—that He is a peacelover. At least, I don’t know many people who would race to characterize God as a warmonger. (Maybe you do!) Yet one of my favorite Jesus quotes is this one [...]

God trumps the mountains.

Kelley Lorencin — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:00:54 +0000

Psalms / chapter 121 (read the chapter) I love this psalm. It is such a well-known psalm, so simple yet so powerful in its message. I love how it begins: “I lift up my eyes to the mountains—where does my help come from? My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.” (vs 1-2) [...]

God gets it done.

Kelley Lorencin — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:00:56 +0000

Psalms / chapter 120 (read the chapter) I love the abruptness of the Hebrew in the opening stanza of this psalm. The original wording of the verse goes like this: “To the Lord in my trouble—I called and He answered me.” (vs 1) The psalmist’s trouble is stressed in the first half of the verse, and [...]

God is the language of life.

Kelley Lorencin — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 11:00:26 +0000

Psalms / chapter 119 (read the chapter) As a lifelong student of language, it was refreshing to see Psalm 119 in a new way today. How appropriate that a psalm about the Word of God should be an acrostic psalm—meaning that each stanza begins with a different letter of the Hebrew alphabet, from start to finish. I [...]

God has wide-open spaces.

Kelley Lorencin — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 11:00:04 +0000

Psalms / chapter 118 (read the chapter) I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about law and freedom. With all the ruckus over birth control and abortion happening right now in America, it’s particularly easy to think about how we have strayed so far away from God’s ideal when it comes to sex. To even [...]

God is right, and He loves you.

Kelley Lorencin — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:00:37 +0000

Psalms / chapter 117 (read the chapter) Okay, I had to laugh when I opened up to the psalm for today. Seriously, have I ever read Psalm 117 before? I didn’t remember there being a Bible chapter that has only two verses! I guess this is the one to read if you’re dashing out the door [...]

God values the death of His friends.

Kelley Lorencin — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:00:58 +0000

Psalms / chapter 116 (read the chapter) This psalm contains a verse that has always been intriguing to me: “Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his faithful servants.” (vs 15) I’ve heard it quoted at funerals sometimes, but its full meaning eludes me. At best, I can only make speculative comments about [...]

God’s mind is full of you.

Kelley Lorencin — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:00:11 +0000

Psalms / chapter 115 (read the chapter) I typically use the New International Version when I quote Bible texts on the blog, but today, I wanted to use the New American Standard Bible because it uses a certain word I like very much: “The LORD has been mindful of us; He will bless us.” (vs 12) There has [...]