Gen. 12:Ver. 6,7. And the Canaanite was then in the land. And the Lord appeared to Abram.
The sight of those wicked Canaanites might discourage him, and unsettle his faith. But then the sight of God relieved him (he is the first man that God is said to appear to);
Job 6:30 Cannot my taste discern perverse things?
(ESV: Cannot my palate discern the cause of my calamity?)
Cannot I distinguish between right and wrong, truth and falsehood? #Job 12:11 34:3.
Is my mouth so far out of taste? Continue reading “Calamity Blues”
2Thes. 1:4 Because that your faith groweth exceedingly.
As corn or plants do after a binding drought.
They were under persecution, #2Th 1:4, and gat by it.
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