Savoring the Scripture

Becoming What We Behold 2 Corinthians 3:18 The change is progressive, so that willing exposure to the sunlight of God’s presence will burn his image ever deeper into our character and will. Kent Hughes “You become what you behold.” “Oh, be careful little eyes what you see…” “Good company corrupts good morals.” We’ve all perhaps heard these songs and sayings throughout our lives. We’ve heard them so often that the driving truth behind them is glossed over. We consume without regard to consequence. We watch, listen, and scroll taking in copious amounts of transformative information without careful discernment. We are being changed. As believers, we ought to be concerned about which direction that change is heading. We have an eternal home and a glorious Father to whom we are headed. Our gaze should be fixed on the unseen, eternal things. And where we fix our gaze has an impact on the progressive transformation that God is performing in us. In 2 Corinthians, Paul encourages them saying, “...

In What Do You Delight? Psalm 1 Humble purpose-like reading of the word omitted. What plant can be unwatered and not wither? Robert Murray M’Cheyne  Trees have long been a symbol of stability, longevity, resiliency, and strength. The Scriptures often use the picture of a tree to communicate a person who is strong in the Lord, trusting Him. Psalm 92 says the righteous man will “flourish like a palm tree, He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon” and these flourishing trees will “still yield fruit in old age; they shall be full of sap and very green” (92:12-14). Isaiah declared of God’s people that “they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified” (Isaiah 61:3). Jeremiah also pictures the one who trusts the Lord as a tree planted by streams of water, without fear or anxiousness, with green leaves and yielding fruit (Jeremiah 17:7-8). Psalm 1 uses this imagery as well, saying that he who delights in the law of the Lord, meditating on it day an...