Canticles 1:1
"The song of songs, which is Solomon's."
The very beginning of this short book, containing only 8 chapters. the chapters are short, they are not long and drawn out, but to the point and accomplishing its purpose. What is its purpose? To reveal the ... read more
Canticles 1:7
"Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?"
Tell me where Thou feedest, O Thou whom my soul loveth - how deep ... read more
Canticles 2:10
"My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away."
A very personal and rich verse for each of His children. My Beloved spake and said unto me - I pray that you are able to call Him, 'Your Beloved'; You cannot say it ... read more
Canticles 2:11
"For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;"
The command in the last verse is from our Lord for us 'to rise and come away.' What has happened? Why now? What's going on? Everything has changed. The command is issued in verse 10; the ... read more
Canticles 2:12
"The flowers appear on the earth; the time of thesinging of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;"
we continue with this series of verses on the spiritaul fulfillment of our Lord unto His children (child). Our last verse g ... read more
Canticles 2:13
"The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away."
The last of this series of verses that has focused us on death and life; lostness and salvation; and barre ... read more
Canticles 3:1
"By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not."
There is all the reality of a love affair found throughout this book. And here in this verse, we come to the part where something of loss has happened. There ... read more
Canticles 3:2
"I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not."
ONly 11 verses in this chapter. And as the first so is the second verse filled with instruction ... read more
Canticles 3:3
"The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?"
We continue with this chapters study of losing our Beloved, seeking for Him and finding Him. It is the greatest of tragedies to lose our place with the ... read more
Canticles 3:4
"It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me."
This is the conclusion of my int ... read more
Canticles 4:16
Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits."
It is by looking at this verse, that it seems to stand alone. But for us it is a ... read more
Canticles 4:7
"Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee."
Two fold description is given here for us. When in love all imperfections are buried underneath of the passion of love. the first descritpion is of Christ. This is the reason we can say of a ... read more
Canticles 5:2
"I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night."
We will need to stay here for a wh ... read more
Canticles 5:3
"I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?"
We continue in this section of study on losing our fellowship and walk with the Lord. In the last verse, we see that she is in bed; the Lord comes knock ... read more
Canticles 5:4
"My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him."
IN our first verse of study, verse 2, we see the separation. IN verse 3 we see the refusal to arise and have her beloved to come in. But now, there is the hand ... read more
Canticles 5:5
"I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock."
The continued progression of this account in chapter 5. Her beloved ONe comes, but she is unwilling to rise u ... read more
Canticles 5:6
"I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer."
We continue in our verse by verse study of chapter 5, verses ... read more
Canticles 5:7
"The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me."
The plight of this woman for her beloved spirals out of control. He came, she refused; when she finally rose up to ... read more
Canticles 5:8
"I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love."
This is not the same ending that we find in chapter 3. In chapter 3, she found her beloved and swore that she would never let Him go. But her ... read more
Canticles 6:1
"Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee."
WE come to this continuing seeking and finding of Christ. Where is He? How is it that we lose Him so much in our day t ... read more
Canticles 7:10
"I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me."
In the last 3 chapters of Song of Solomon, there is much description of her Beloved. There is no more the scenarios of seeking and finding, but all is about description.
I am my Beloved's - it i ... read more
Canticles 8:13
"Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it."
The Lord is speaking, and His place is found. Let us go where we may meet with Him and hear from Him.
Thou that dwellest in the gardens - the Lord is ... read more
Canticles 8:14
"Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices."
We come to the conclusion of this book. Eight chapters, and what a roller coaster of experience in love and relationship it has been. And with this ... read more
Ecclesiastes 10:18
"By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through."
We come again to another verse that speaks to the wisdom of observation and our reality. Any one of us can be going down the road and see and ... read more
Ecclesiastes 11:5
" As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that iswith child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all."
The two distinquishing marks of this verse are 'thou knowest not'; and th ... read more
Ecclesiastes 12:1
"Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw night when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;"
The last chapter and now beginning in this chapter Solomon is looking to the distinction of y ... read more
Ecclesiastes 12:13
"Let us hear the conclsion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep His commandments: for this is the whole duty of man."
The last two verses of this book are very direct and needful. Of all that we study in the Scriptures, these two verses, 13 and ... read more
Ecclesiastes 12:14
"For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil."
the conclusion of this chapter, of the book and of life itself. What a fitting verse to conclude all that has been presented in this ... read more
Ecclesiastes 12:7
"Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it."
A picture of death and what happens to us at that time. I use this verse so often, I felt the need to stop here and address the truth of it. Let ... read more
Ecclesiastes 1:2
"Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity."
The words of Solomon throughout this book reveal that there is much vanity. Vanity is defined as something that is vain, empty or valueless. Literally we are left with nothi ... read more
Ecclesiastes 2:26
"For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner He giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that He may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit."
WE see a c ... read more
Ecclesiastes 3:1
"To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:"
WE begin this most famous chapter on 'Time'. WE see the punctuation at the end of the verse and follow it down through the verses on time. WE note that verses 1 - 8 are ... read more
Ecclesiastes 4:11
"Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?"
These verses of 9 -12 have been on unity. We see in this verse a rational truth followed by question to emphasize that truth. Again - the truth has to be spoken over an ... read more
Ecclesiastes 4:9
"Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor."
The old saying goes, 'There is strength in numbers.' This verse is a testimony to that truth. Actually we see that verses 9 -12 all deal with the wisdom of numbers being bett ... read more
Ecclesiastes 5:13
"There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt."
This section of this chapter is complete in verses 9 -17. I stop on this verse because of its merit about our current position in the U ... read more
Ecclesiastes 5:15
"As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand."
I want to use back to back verse 15 and 16 for its eternal purpose for us. As he came forth o ... read more
Ecclesiastes 5:16
"And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?"
this verse is a continuation of the previous verses. We will look at it on its own, for each verse and phrase te ... read more
Ecclesiastes 5:7
"For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God."
Any verse with 'fear the Lord' should captivate our attentin. So I stop here at this verse in this chapter to address it. For in the multitude of dream ... read more
Ecclesiastes 6:3
"If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he."
The wisdom of this verse, simply ... read more
Ecclesiastes 7:3
"Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better."
Many will read this and quickly dispel its wisdom. For in our day, society is bent on removing all saddness and replacing life with laughter. Tell a ... read more
Ecclesiastes 8 :12
"Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God which fear before him:"
the two sides of all of life, the sinner and the saved. The sinner does evil, the saved hat ... read more
Ecclesiastes 8:13
"But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God."
When you consider the plight of the wicked, it is the most agonizing of thoughts. An eternal hell of punishment, ... read more
Ecclesiastes 9:10
"Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest."
The first half of this verse is often quoted, but the last half is forgotten. The reason of the ... read more
Eccliesiastes 10:10
"If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct."
The practical wisdom is before us as Solomon states it clearly. A dull ax, more work! If the iron be blunt, and he do not w ... read more
Isaiah 13:11
"And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible."
A continued study of this section of verses, 6 - 13 and their imp ... read more
Isaiah 1:1
"The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah."
We begin in our reading and study of this great book of Isaiah. There are 66 books in the Bible, t ... read more
Isaiah 1:2
"Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me."
In verse 1, there was the introduction of who, when and where. IN verse 2 God begins immediately to spe ... read more
Isaiah 1:4
"Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy ONe of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward."
Truly one of the most powerful boo ... read more
Proverbs 23:26
"My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways."
Such instruction in Proverbs is so personal to me. This is needful counsel from those that are near us. My son, give me thine heart - word study, give; the father says to the son, giv ... read more
Proverbs 23:29
"Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who hath contentions? Who hath babbling? Who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes?"
In verse 29 and 30, Solomon is declaring the product of drunkness. Anyone who has watched or knew of a person that dest ... read more
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