Synonyms: thirstiness, dryness, parched, craving, strong desire, longing, yearning, avidity, hunger, voracity, keenness, eagerness, lust, appetite, passion, love, crave, want, covet, desire, hunger for/after, lust for/after, hanker for/after, have one's heart set on
Antonyms: aversion, distaste, apathy, dislike, hatred, antipathy, disgust, disregard, abhorrence, acrimony, wet, animosity, animus, antagonism, bad feeling, bitterness, be averse to, detestation
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Leonard Sweet
... a resident “know-it-all.” You know the type. As much as we despised and resented those resident know-it-alls, we love the current universal know-it-all. It’s name is . . . . . Google. But even in a world where the phrase “Google It!” ... good answer when it is an honest answer, when we really don’t know. Affirming what we do know is a better answer. We know that God loves us enough to muck about and muddle in our lives. We know that God sent us Jesus to redeem our lives from that mortal mess-up. We ...
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King Duncan
... they are completely candid. This candor shows in a list someone has made of children’s letters to Santa: “Dear Santa, “Could you come early this year? I’ve been really super good, but I don’t know if I can last much longer. Please hurry. Love, Jordan.” Now there’s an honest young man. “Dear Santa, “Mommy says that you only bring presents for good little boys. That isn’t fair. (Signed) Brian.” Sounds like Brian has already failed the test for being good. But the one I like is from Jenny ...
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Leonard Sweet
... “selfie” is. And guess what. It is not a picture of yourself. To take the Ultimate “Selfie” you need Jesus Light. To take any picture we need light. To take a picture of some person who matters today and tomorrow we need a glorious light, a lovely light, a hallelujah light. The ultimate “selfie” is a quick pic that exposes your soul, not just catches you at a moment of fun and frolic. And that means, to take the ultimate “selfie,” you need the light that comes from The Light of the world ...
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King Duncan
... a God nothing matters, but if there is a God nothing else matters.” One reason we treasure the Ten Commandments is that we believe they come from God. Augustine said that all ethics can be summed up in this: “Love God, and do what you will,” for the soul that truly loves God will want to do what God loves. And so we begin by pledging our allegiance to God above everything else in life. We will have no other gods before Him, not money or status, or power or comfort. We’ll not make any image and fall ...
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Wayne Brouwer
... is why the final plague is paired with the institution of the Passover festival (Exodus 12). It would become an ongoing reminder that Israel was bought back by way of a blood-price redemption and that the nation owed its very existence to the love and fighting jealousy of its divine champion. All of this was gathered, year by year, into the annual Passover rites. More than just a polite religious pageant, Passover recalled the bloody battle in which a captor (Pharaoh) and a lover (Yahweh) fought for the ...
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James Merritt
... is to be rich, I’ll show you someone whose number one god is money. Which is why Paul goes on to say, “For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves ... look for people who need what you have more than you do and give it to them. Don’t just be willing to do it. I love the way Paul says it, “Be ready to do it.” Here is the result. “Thus storing up treasure for themselves as a good foundation for ...
3982. The Loser
Mark 10:17-31
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James Merritt
... sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.’” (Mark 10:21, ESV) I just love that verse. The word “love” can be translated “fall in love.” Jesus fell in love with this young man. This man was serious and this man was sincere and Jesus loved him enough to tell him the truth. “And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven ...
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James Merritt
... Me what the law says.” “He said to him, ‘What is written in the Law? How do you read it?’And he answered, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor ... so special was not the color of his skin, but the compassion in his heart. No law will ever make you a good neighbor, but real love can’t keep you from being a good neighbor. Three men walked by a man that day. Two men saw a nuisance. One man saw a ...
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James Merritt
... that God created us in His image. God wants us to know we are unlike anything else He has ever created. How are we different? We are different primarily in three ways: mentally, morally, and spiritually. No other created being has a mind to know God, a heart to love God, or a will to obey God. Only humans can have a relationship with God and God only has a personal relationship with humanity. Plants have a body, animals have a body and soul, but only humans have a body and a soul and a spirit. That spirit ...
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King Duncan
... little but contempt for her as I thought of her quick temper, her selfishness, her spiteful gossiping, and the way she took her loving family for granted. Any time she was mentioned, I could think of very little good to say. “But one day as I ... She rejected me and gave me away . . . and few years later I was the one she needed.” (6) Can you imagine being able to love and forgive like that? Only Christ can work such a change in a person’s heart. Jesus, the stone the builders rejected is the cornerstone ...
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... day, he received the best news ever! Technology had made it possible for doctors to do an eye transplant to help the blind gain sight. What an amazing opportunity, he thought. But she would need a donor. Unfortunately, there was no suitable donor. So he made the most selfless, loving decision one can ever make he sacrificed his own eyes. But after surgery, and after she had recovered, the girl opened her new eyes and was amazed at how fair she was to look upon. Outside, waiting to see her, was he who had ...
Understanding Series
Arthur G. Patzia
... who are disobedient”), and the flesh (“the cravings of our sinful nature”); offsetting these are God’s mercy, love, and grace, which make life, resurrection, and enthronement with Christ possible. Salvation from Spiritual Death 2:1 The main contrast ... as disobedient sinners deserving God’s wrath, the apostle turns, in sharp contrast, to the mercy and love of God. God’s mercy proceeds from his love and is his way of reaching out to those totally undeserving. We were, he claims, dead in ...
Understanding Series
Arthur G. Patzia
... ) shows that this belongs to the context of baptismal instructions. Second, these virtues are very similar to the “fruit of the Spirit” mentioned in Galatians 5:22, 23. Three of the “fruit” (compassion, kindness, humility) are directly in the list, while “love” and “peace” are picked up in 3:14 and 3:15 respectively. A third characteristic of these virtues is that they are “godly qualities,” which are used to describe either God or Christ. Many references in the NT, for example, talk ...
Understanding Series
Gordon D. Fee
... Thus Paul’s intent goes something like this: “For when God gave us his Spirit, it was not timidity that we received, but power, love, and self-discipline.” Paul’s concern, of course, ties into what he has just said in verse 6. In light of the appeal to ... endowed him with power (a thoroughgoing NT and Pauline understanding; cf. e.g., Acts 1:8; Rom. 15:13, 19; 1 Cor. 2:4), love (cf. Gal. 5:22; Rom. 5:5), and self-discipline (sōphronismos; a different word for “self-discipline” from that of Gal. 5:23 ...
Understanding Series
Michael S. Moore
... . so that I could not submit to be thrust into the midst of a life of turmoil. . . . If any of you has been possessed by this longing, you know what I mean, and will sympathize with my feelings. (Gregory Nazianzus, Oration 2) Naomi wants her loved ones, her remnant, to experience rest. The possibility that they might wind up as abused concubines somewhere is very real. She kissed them and they wept aloud. These are tears of anguish, not only for the dead but also for the impending pain of separation. These ...
3991. I Am a Rose of Sharon
Song of Songs 2:1-17
Understanding Series
Elizabeth Huwiler
... any event, the lily is not what we think of as a “lily of the valley.” 2:3 Apple tree: Many interpreters believe that apricot or quince is more likely—at any rate, a kind of fruit tree native to Israel. 2:4 His banner over me is love: The sense of this verse is unclear. The word for banner (Hb. degel) is used only here and in Numbers, where it is used in connection with different tribal groups apparently bearing their standards. 2:5 Raisins: The precise meaning is unclear, although the reference is to ...
Understanding Series
Elizabeth Achtemeier
... a term of relationship, referring to absolute loyalty in the maintenance of some relationship, and so it is often used of God’s covenant love for Israel (Exod. 34:6) and of Israel’s for God (Mic. 6:8). Daʿat ʾelōhîm, or the knowledge of God, ... 3; 8:2; 11:3; 13:4) or to have knowledge of him is to know what he has done and said in the past and therefore to love him and cling to him, like a faithful wife to her husband or like an obedient son to his father, in an intimate relation of devotion and ...
Understanding Series
Elizabeth Achtemeier
... can say what and how it should be lived. But the Lord is a “gracious God and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love” (Jonah 4:2 RSV; cf. Exod. 34:6; Num 14:18; Ps. 86:5, 15; Joel 2:13; Mic. 7:18), and so once more ... cf. Ps. 123:2) for guidance, approbation, and correction. It is such a humble walk with God that makes it possible to act justly and to love ḥesed, and thus this requirement sums up the other two. Israel is put in its place here and shown to be lacking. These are the things ...
3994. The Death of Lazarus
John 11:1-16, John 11:17-37
Understanding Series
J. Ramsey Michaels
... , did Jesus wait deliberately until Lazarus was dead so that he might have opportunity to perform a greater miracle? It is not likely. A better solution is that Jesus was no more willing to have his hand forced by Martha and Mary and Lazarus, all of whom he dearly loved (vv. 3, 5), than by his own mother (2:4) or his brothers (7:6–10). The account preserves the authentic memory that Jesus often responded to the initiatives of those in need (cf., e.g., 4:46–54; Mark 1:40–45; 7:24–30) but does so ...
Teach the Text
Grant R. Osborne
... (2 Cor. 5:8; Phil. 1:21–23). It does denote the end of our earthly existence, but far more, it is the beginning of our eternal joy. Illustrating the Text Faith and healing Story: The thirteen-year-old, angry with her mother, said, “You obviously don’t love me!” The mom had told her daughter that she could not attend the middle-school party. The child had begged to attend; everyone was going to be there, and all the other parents had given their consent. But the mom had other concerns. She was not ...
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C. Marvin Pate
... , faith in Christ and the indwelling Holy Spirit fulfill the requirements for which the Torah was first given. Paul will confirm this statement in Romans 8:4; 10:4, and he will specify what he means by “requirements of the law” (2:26) in Romans 13:8–10: loving one’s neighbor and loving God supremely (cf. Lev. 19:18; Matt. 5:43–48; 19:19; 22:34–40; Mark 12:28–33; Luke 10:25–28; Gal. 5:14; James 2:8). Third, the new covenant has been instituted by Christ (compare Rom. 2:25–29 with 2 Cor. 3:1 ...
3997. The First Four Trumpet Judgments
Revelation 8:6--9:21, Revelation 8:1-5
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J. Scott Duvall
... such prayers in the Old Testament Prophets (e.g., Jer. 11:18–20; 17:18; 20:11–12) as well as in the book of Psalms (e.g., Pss. 35; 83; 109; 137). Such a prayer seems at odds with Jesus’s call to love our enemies. There is tension, but the two are not irreconcilable. As we love our enemies, we may also cry out to God to bring justice in the face of unjust suffering. How God answers such prayers is up to him. Our prayers never force God to condemn people. As with the judgments in Revelation, God desires ...
3998. The Red Heifer
Numbers 19:1-22
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Joe M. Sprinkle
... the cause it purports to serve. It’s about the sheer pleasure of killing and dying. It’s about massacring people while in a state of spiritual loftiness. It’s about experiencing the total freedom of barbarism—freedom even from human nature, which says, Love children, and Love life. It’s about the joy of sadism and suicide.”13 Such an attitude is completely alien from the God of the Bible as seen in Numbers 19 and elsewhere. God is to be associated with life, not death. Death defiles. It is not ...
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Daniel J. Estes
... discouragement and despair (Ps. 30:5). However, as 35:10 indicates, God can give songs in the night as he provides protection for his people (Ps. 121:6). In Psalm 42:8, Yahweh’s song is with the psalmist in the night, as a parallel to the divine loving-kindness that ministers to the psalmist in the daytime. In Psalm 77:6, the psalmist remembers his song in the night, as his heart meditates on how God has helped him in the past. As Paul and Silas are imprisoned in the Philippian jail, they sing praises to ...
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C. Hassell Bullock
... , and borne false witness against their neighbor (50:18–21). In essence the Lord says, “When you worship me but do not keep my commandments, what does that mean about our relationship?” It is a natural connection to Jesus’s teaching that if we love him we will keep his commandments (John 14:15). Illustrating the Text Know who God is. Personal Testimony: The Psalms and the Prophets put knowing God at the center of theology. And sometimes, as this psalm attests, we know God through the witness and the ...
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