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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676. Angry Hands
Psalm 26:1-12
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... Jesus Christ did in giving himself at Calvary is the answer to the Psalmist's prayer. It is the answer to our prayer. It is the answer to our prayer that God would consume our anger and take it out of us, asking him to remove all the bitterness that exists in us, all the scheming that we do against each other gossiping and back-stabbing, seeking his release from all the other things that are so prevalent in us as human beings, even in Christian human beings, praying that he would remove our anger and we ...
677. Parable of Five Cities
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
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... first city and fell completely in love with him, but she was wrong and he left her in the City of Disappointment. Her journey took her to the next city, where she again thought the ideal was at hand; but, in this city called Rebellion, she found only bitterness. Once again she set forth and found a beautiful love called respect. This was the City of Dignity. Again she set forth to find her true love and there she found some happiness in the City of Adventure and, when this love faded, she finally arrived at ...
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... photographers methodically manipulating their cameras, making ready to close in on me. The room was enormously quiet when Oregon was called. I did not know how I would sound when the moment came to answer. I found my voice and said "No." My "No" was neither mean nor bitter nor antagonistic. It was simply "No." It was all over then ... when the vote was tallied, as the whole room well knew, the result was 49-1 in favor ...2 Where does a man find the courage to take this kind of stand? Where did this man find ...
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... he lost his life in the pursuit of justice. His way of righting wrong was to die for us the wrongdoers that we might be justified in the eyes of God through his death. Christ did just the opposite of the people of the text. He did not make justice bitter but made it richly sweet. What a way God chose to make clear his sense of justice - to give us that which is too good to be true, to give us that which we do not deserve. He has given us the gift of life, that is the gift of ...
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... knew that good days are times of danger. We now stand beyond the days of Micah. What he said came true. What they had done to others was done to them. "We are utterly ruined. Among our captors he divides our fields." Uncleanness has destroyed with a bitter destruction. We have moved beyond Micah, but not beyond the conditions he describes, not beyond the message he proclaims. When the poor and the widows and the orphans end up with the short end of the stick, there can be nothing so good as to excuse that ...
681. The Time Is Coming
Jeremiah 30:1--31:40
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... The harshness of the prophecies - never mind their truth - drove away his friends, alienated his family, embroiled him with the government, entangled him with the priests. It culminated in his exile and a death unknown. Not the least to be alienated was Jeremiah himself. So bitter did he become that he cried out that God had seduced him, had raped him, and forced him to be a prophet against his will. Once he deliberately refused to prophesy because it was tearing him apart, but so also did silence. "A fire ...
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Kendall McCabe
... been not only of grief for Jesus, whom she had loved and served, but grief for all the fond hopes of the kingdom that would never be, a kingdom where her sons might have had a place to the right and left of the throne. Her thoughts must have been bitter with anger and regret as they finally cleared the city gates, and the scene on Golgotha's slope came into view. What she saw was not one cross, however, but three. No one had told her it was a multiple execution. Good God! Had they arrested some of the ...
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Kendall McCabe
"Sometimes I feel like a motherless chile," the weary black slave would sing to the hot southern night, giving expression to the condition of having been taken from home and family and subjected to the power of death. Although none of us has known the bitterness of that dehumanizing experience, the sung lament has surely expressed our own agony of soul from time to time, as we confront isolation and alienation and the world becomes too much with us. "The dark night of the soul" is a fact of the religious ...
684. "If Only. . ."
Exodus 12:1-30
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... people. In the upper room the disciples, with their food, recalled how God had spared their ancestors. The unleavened bread, baked before it had time to rise, reminded them of the haste with which their ancestors left the land of Pharaoh. The radishes and bitter herbs reminded them of the harsh life of Egypt from which God had delivered them. And the roasted lamb reminded them of the unblemished paschal lambs, sacrificed so their blood might be sprinkled on the Hebrew's doors in Egypt; God's avenging angel ...
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... ; making straight A's one High School semester gave you confidence and self-respect; losing a good job and how it triggered fear and tightened belts. Our experiences shape us. We hope the good memories, the healing and building memories, outweigh the bitter, scarring ones. But there's no guarantee; the flaws are scratched into you forever. Then comes Christ. His invitation is to expand our memories to include his experiences, to expand our life stories to include his life. "Christ never asks to share our ...
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Dean Lueking
... loses his wife, a mother loses her son, a man loses his hearing, a child loses its sight. Instinctively the question which comes to our lips is "Why?" Why should life be so unfair? Why should the world be so cold and unfeeling? Why should fate be so bitter and cruel? How easy it is, seeing Jesus Christ hanging on his Cross and hearing him speak this fourth word, to say, "See, even Christ himself was finally forced to ask why! And even Jesus went out of this life without getting the answer! What can there be ...
687. Proper 12
Lk 11:1-13 · Col 2:6-15 · Gen 18:20-32 · 2 Ki 5:1-15
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John R. Brokhoff
... (v. 2). Here is the heroine of the story involving top generals, kings, and prophets. It was the witness of a "little maid" that started the ball rolling leading to Naaman's cure. The little girl was a slave, a captive in a foreign land. She could have been bitter, hateful, and resentful. She could have rejoiced that her master would soon be dead or banished as a leper. We rejoice in her compassion, in her faith in God, and in her testimony to her faith. 2. Angry (v. 11). Naaman was angry and sick. He felt ...
688. Proper 25
Lk 18:9-14 · 2 Tim 4:9-18 · Sirach 35:12-18 · Deut 10:12-22 · Zeph 3:1-9
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... and hears the hurting person's prayers. 2 Timothy 4:6-8, 16-18 With his life near the end, Paul looks forward to receiving a crown of righteousness. Paul realizes that death is near. He was tried in Rome and Roman Christians deserted him. He was not bitter but forgiving. His confidence was in God who would rescue him from every evil. According to tradition Paul was executed in Rome Ca. AD 60. In writing to Timothy he looks back on his ministry and is pleased that he kept the faith and he also looks forward ...
689. Christ the King
Lk 23:35-43 · Jn 12:9-19 · Col 1:11-20 · Jer 23:2-6 · 2 Sam 5:1-5
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John R. Brokhoff
... at the gates of the city. They cut down palm branches and sang praises to him as Messiah and King. He illustrated his understanding of kingship by riding an ass, the fulfillment of Zechariah's prophecy. Everybody seemed to be happy and celebrating except the Pharisees who bitterly complained, "Look, the world has gone after him." Luke 23:35-43 The king of the Jews is crucified. THEOLOGICAL REFLECTION Gospel: John 12:9-19 1. Went out (v. 13). The crowd on Palm Sunday went out to meet Jesus as he was about to ...
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... your forgiveness, Father. Yet it is that same sinful nature which makes us so unforgiving toward other sinners. Forgive us for holding grudges, and wishing for revenge against our adversaries, when you have been so free with your forgiveness toward us. Remove our bitterness; and fill us with love; that we may express true forgiveness to those who wrong us. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Hymns "Eternal Son, Eternal Love" "Father Eternal, Ruler of Creation" "God of Grace and God of Glory" "Lift Up Our Hearts ...
691. Epiphany 8
1 Corinthians 4:1-21, Matthew 5:43-48, Matthew 5:38-42, Leviticus 19:1-37
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... we are commanded by God to love our neighbors as ourselves. People: May our attitude in society prove we are children of God. Collect Gracious Father, whose nature to love is a basic requirement for those who would be your children: Empty our hearts of bitterness, jealousy, and vengeance; that we may give to society the example of brotherly love. In our Savior's name we pray. Amen. Prayer of Confession We need people to be our neighbors, Father. But we are guilty of many unneighborly acts of injustice; and ...
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Joe Pennel
... because it is a liberating force in our lives, enabling us to think, to plan, to act and do what has to be done every day that we live. For Paul Peterson and the other prisoners, their trust freed them from losing hope, from being consumed by bitterness and hatrea of their captors and the conditions in which they were forced to exist, even from the fear of death in that prison camp. And they could have a future with hope, as Peterson writes: "But strangely, this (the conditions of their imprisonment) is not ...
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... of my life because of the Hittite women. If Jacob marries one of the Hittite women such as these, [Esau in spite to his parents married two] one of the women of the land, what good will my life be to me?" They, the Hittite women, had made life bitter for Isaac and Rebekah. (Genesis 26:34) Jacob’s mind reeled and flashed, and another vision out of his memory came to mind as he shifted his position on the firm ground at Bethel as the rock pillow remained in place. It would be most difficult for anyone of ...
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... of suffering. This narrative gives us no easy answers. If anything they exclude some cherished complacencies such as belief that God protects his people from suffering and pain and anguish and hopelessness. But in the text, suffering is undeserved and prolonged and bitter. The fact is that ordinary people lose control of their lives and see their children abused and murdered; but just as complacency is denied in this text, so is the complacency of despair. The people do not give up, instead they resist ...
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... tenth day of this month [you] shall take ... a lamb ... your lamb shall be without blemish ... [And] the whole assembly of the congregation shall kill their lambs in the evening ... [You]20 shall eat the flesh that night roasted; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs ... And you shall let none of it remain until morning, anything that remains until the morning you shall burn." Note all of these details, the instructions! And then, further, verse 14: "This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall ...
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... word and event and act, conversation, prayer and intercession to God on behalf of the people and from God back to the people. The Book of Exodus knows God in plague and pestilence, fiery cloud and Red Sea, burning bush and mountain cloud, bitter water and sweet manna. In events and experiences, in words and wonders, in deeds and in daily duties, "God provided!" And into the present tense for you and me: God provides. Elizabeth Barrett Browning expressed such insight: Earth is crammed with heaven and ...
697. Forgiveness Forever
Matthew 18:21-35
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... like these. It goes, "Hating someone is like burning down your house to get rid of a rat." In other words, we can hate those people who do us injury; but if we hate and hate some more, the cost to us becomes far too great. It can make us bitter. It can keep us from trusting good people. It can sour our whole life. If we don't forgive, we can be destroyed. This beautiful human being God is making us into doesn't have much of a chance under those conditions. I don't want to see that happen ...
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... the little shoes of their baby who had died. When the wife opened the trunk and saw those things on top, her heart was broken. The memory of all the love and joy she once had with her husband came flooding back into her mind. Shedding bitter tears of repentance, she acknowledged her sin and unfaithfulness, and was reconciled to her husband. Likewise our Lord has given us some special keepsakes, some special symbols to remind us of his love. Knowing the unfaithfulness of our hearts and how easy it is for us ...
699. Communion Is Reconciliation
2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2
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... had never done anything against us. Reconciliation with our neighbor is the direct result of our forgiveness. There can be no genuine reconciliation without genuine forgiveness. There is a story which bears repeating today. It is about two African tribes who were bitter enemies. Warriors from each tribe dipped their spears into the other's blood, stole each other's wives, killed the other's children, and burned each other's villages. Then a Christian missionary proclaimed the Gospel to the rival chiefs and ...
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... she started out to do. Her two daughters-in-law accompanied her and planned to resettle in Bethlehem. Naomi tried to talk them out of it. She had no sons for them to marry and the two young widows had little future in her land. Both wept bitterly at her words, and Orphah kissed her and returned to her people, but Ruth "clung to her," determined to go to Bethlehem and comfort and sustain Naomi, her mother-in-law. Nothing Naomi said could dissuade her: "Entreat me not to leave you or to return from following ...
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