I believe loving you will be more delightful than wine.

I love you too.” A new wave of tears attacked him. “Whatever love is.

You’re hearing this story now because I wish someone had told me how important an abba and son relationship is. It’s obvious you and Aaron don’t like each other, and I’m telling you both.” He pinned Abba Aaron with a stare. “Your son must be more important than your pride. He must be more important than your duty or your day’s labor.” He returned his attention to Eleazar. “And your abba will die someday – as my abba did – and then you can’t make.

Make the atoning sacrifice for your own sin, and then your heart will be prepared to atone for others.

It’s hard to trust God when reality drains our hope, but God must be our hope for a new reality.

Without a doubt, Yahweh surrounded them, enfolded them, shielded them.

Greater suffering means deeper revelation as you near God’s promise.

Yahweh’s presence is constant. He never abandons us, but I think He grows tired of our flailing.

Yahweh is truth – perfectly dependable – and He has sealed a covenant of love with us that He’ll never break.

Faith was a battle, its battlefield the mind. Surely, this moment would determine victory or defeat in their struggle to trust the God they proclaimed as good.