Quaz’s Qorner

What is dark to us is not even dark to You, O Lord. That which is brightened by your Light ushers You in. Dark is dispelled from us. Your Presence--Light occupying the seized. Basking, here is the new creation you’ve made of your shining saints. Change undeniable! This knowledge...

(After reading John 15:1-17) Father, I extend my soul to follow your rules, to befriend your heart, do service for you, because your Son sought you, fulfilled the Law, I seek you, too, demonstrate love. First by the knowing he gave all for me. By this grand mercy, I show grace secondly. Thirdly...

Over the past few years, I've noticed that in praise music, emphasis on the Lord taking our shame away has been the norm for many song lyrics. All well and good when we isolate the emphasis to its meaning. But, the trend also seems top-heavy and out of proportion to what a balanced Christian...

When I have a party, dancing is part; the joy of companionship is how it starts. We clap for the fiddler as he taps his toes, and the swaying of happy collaboratin' flows. As we are one Body, we rejoice as one kin, the joy of our fellowship is how it begins. We clap for the Master, who in...

Contemplating Philippians 1:3-6 3 I thank my God every time I remember you. 4 In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy 5 because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now, 6 being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to...

Life before light, before substance illumined.* Life before light, grace, before saints’ soul-soothing.** To each dead of night, Daystar came pursuing^: a crash per dark’s knights,^^ for us, soft-landing to His bosom.+ ___________ All scripture quotes are taken from the King James Version *...

When we are thinking about the relationship between our "faith" in Messiah Jesus and our "works", it helps to consider the words that Jesus said to the Apostle Paul: Acts 26:17-18 I am sending you to [the Gentiles] to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of...

Concerning Luke 2:21-24: On the eighth day after Messiah Jesus was born, Joseph and Mary had Jesus circumcised. This could have been done by a rabbi at Bethlehem or in Jerusalem: On the eighth day, when it was time to circumcise him, he was named Jesus, the name the angel had given him before...

Could the action described in Mark 2:3-5 be an early form of “retaining and forgiving sin”? The point is that when Jesus “saw their faith”, it was then that He told the paralytic “your sins are forgiven. It appears to me that the ones carrying the stretcher knew that the man needed healing...

Truth, be told this Christmas as with every morn. Prophecy has come to pass, the Messiah is born. True, it was for centuries God told time to wait, till magi saw the Lord was pleased by the sign He gave. Wondrous revelation: Immanuel from His courts took good news to Bethlehem, grew as lad and...

Trembled, shepherds at the shout * of the angels near Zion’s Mount. Filled with words of “Fear ye not”, sandals rightly ran with awe! Babe, too small to open the door, ** lay in a manger at the floor. Better than dining is to adore, ^ thus the shepherds communed more. Tremble, saints at Holy...

After reading Psalms 119:145-152 Promises ring through the night, like owls, good-haunting the wise, echoing through forests of days, promises--what moonlight can’t shoo away. Wicked schemes may feel so near, yet far away are they from the clear conscience that is succored by law of the...

(Whether one is “Arminian”, “Calvinist”, or in-between in their theological bent, there is something to be, shall we say, “wildly joyful” about in knowing that God intimately thought about us and stretched his arms toward us even before “the beginning of time” (2 Timothy 1:8-10 NIV)...

The Apostle Paul carried the banner theme of "faith, hope and love" everywhere he went. We mostly recognise this as if it were the refrain of the 1 Corinthians "Love Chapter": 1 Corinthians 13:3 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. This trifecta...

A meditation, after considering Colossians 3:11-17 11 Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all. 12 Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness...

I recently heard a pastor assuage his congregation's perceptions about the Old Testament, assuring attendees that even if it (the OT) seems "weird", it forms part of the canon of the inspired word of God. For my part, having thoroughly read both testaments, I'm struck by how "weird" one...

Not in a corner, but on every corner, from high to unlearned, the lofty to leper, the halt and the lame, some proud: all ready to earth's salt be, to this very day. He is Lord, Jesus is Lord! He opens the door, in dark lights a torch. He makes sin, the grievous, become almost myth, displaced as...

In the first chapter of 1st Corinthians, the Apostle Paul expresses his concern that some of the believers were treating fellowship with God as a matter of which minister of the Gospel one is following: 12 What I mean is this: One of you says, "I follow Paul"; another, "I follow Apollos"...

1 Corinthians 15:40-41 40 There are also heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies; but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is one kind, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is another. 41 The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another and the stars another; and star differs from star...

2 Chronicles 20 explains how Jehoshaphat, King of Judah, called the people his kingdom together to earnestly pray while invaders from Moab and Ammon threatened them. What followed was like an Early Church charismatic service: (1) United as One 2 Chronicles 20:13 All the men of Judah, with...