Tag: spirit

God with Us

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Our blessed hope is that when there was darkness over the world, God spoke Light into it. But He is the Light, so what we learn is that God brings Himself into our darkness to be with us.

That is Emmanuel. God with us.

Genesis 1:2 tells us that the Spirit of God hovered or fluttered over the water – like a dove, close enough to stir the water with the beating of his wings.

The Light isn’t shining from far away. It’s shining so near to us.

Cut Off

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But as for an uncircumcised male, one who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.”
Genesis 17:14 (NASB )

There are two instances of word play happening here in the text.

1. “Person” here is nefesh, or “soul.” As in, spirit. So there is an interplay between flesh and spirit.

2. “Cut off” is the same word for establishing the covenant: one “cuts a covenant” through circumcision.