The Boat Tossed Between Wave Crests and Troughs
Our Lord Jesus employs a word of striking precision when He says 'Be not pitched about.' The original term *meteorizō*—to be elevated, raised as a...
This is historical examples on anxiety and trust and worldliness and spiritual stability, drawing on Luke 12:29.
Our Lord Jesus employs a word of striking precision when He says 'Be not pitched about.' The original term meteorizō—to be elevated, raised as a meteor—carries a vivid nautical image familiar to the fishermen dwelling by the Sea of Galilee with its sudden, violent squalls. The prohibition is not against reasonable foresight, but against anxious foreboding, that wretched state in which a man is 'rent asunder' by care.…
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