I love the second half of verse 9: “See, your king comes to you; triumphant and victorious is he, humble and riding on a donkey.”
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At the birth of babies, we play the game of wondering “who they look like?”
What an incredible scene! The queen of Sheba travelled from a foreign land (Arabia? Ethiopia?) to discover if King Solomon lived up to his growing fame and legend.
Nebuchadnezzar’s transformation is one of the most unexpected testimonies in Scripture.
There are moments in life when the challenges in front of us feel overwhelmingly large—so large that we can’t see a way through.
In two short verses, we see the entire relationship between Jesus and Herod the tetrarch of Galilee.
For today’s Bible verse I have no pithy tales of a king and I. But this verse causes me to pause, to think, to pray.
Sometimes I wonder where is my guiding light, my star to lead me in the correct direction.
I last heard my father speak this Bible verses on December 24, 1983. I was 28 years old.
And so, begins the story we have heard and reheard for thousands of years.