Category Archives: KWT Paraphrasing

2026, Just Chatty Today, KWT Paraphrasing, Psalm

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I often listen to devotional podcasts and watch teachings on YouTube, and sometimes I think, “No, I would that you did not say it that way.”

Would you like an example? Good.

Scripture teaches us that GOD is ALL-KNOWING. Psalm 139.

So, saying that GOD wanted to see if Abraham would be faithful, if he would go up the mountain with Isaac, makes no sense to me.

Since GOD is all-knowing, how could He not know whether Abraham, or any of us, would be faithful in any given circumstance?

He already knows, has always known, BUT we need to see; we need to know how faithful we are.
We need to know if GOD is important enough to us that we will obey Him, especially when what He has instructed us to do is the opposite of what we want to do.

HE KNOWS, and we need to know too.
He knows us better than we know ourselves, and He is willing to teach us about Himself and us.

Sometimes we need to know we love Him even more than we thought we did!

I can imagine that Abraham went down from that mountain with Issac with more joy and more faith in the faithfulness, the goodness, the grace, and the love of GOD than he thought he could ever have!

When ABBA tests us, it’s not so He can see, but so WE can see!
He is truly AWESOME!!
And to think AWESOME GOD takes up time with ME! AMAZING!

Perhaps you think He is amazing in that way too!

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2 Corinthians, 2026, Colossians, KWT Paraphrasing

New and Renewed

I want us to first read Colossians 3:10.

10 and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him, (link to the Text)

Now 2 Corinthians 5: 17
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. (link to the Text)

Can we agree that new man and new creation mean the same? Good.

This is shaping up to be another backdoor approach to the Text (if you missed yesterday’s post, click here). It seems to me from these verses that we who are in Christ are new men and new women. And from verse 10, we, the new man and new woman, from time to time need renewing. So, do we get dull or something?

But how?
And what could bring renewal to the new? Correct me if I am wrong, but it seems to me that verse 10 says that the new man can (in a sense) become not so new if the man (or woman) does not practice learning Him who rebirthed them.
We need to keep on knowing (learning) JESUS.
And how do we do that?
Only one way I know: conversing with Him in the pages of His Word, continuously.
Which is why I keep coming day after day, year after year, to this digital screen, because I want to keep on knowing/learning Him, and I want to encourage you to keep on knowing/learning Him too.
I hope I am.

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2026, Ephesians, Gospel of Matthew, KWT Paraphrasing

The Back Door

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Sometimes I come at Scripture backwards, shall we say, like coming in the back door. Let me explain.

Matthew 22: 37 Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’  Link to Text

I am thinking in this moment that is exactly what we do, especially when we have a god other than Him.
(Remember now, I said backwards . . . back door.)
The evil one does all he can to see to it that we put other gods before GOD, that we give those gods our heart, mind, and soul. I mean, we go after those little g gods with all we got — careers, cars, houses, prestige, making money, pleasures, comforts, etc., etc.

So, this being true, take heart, my dear Friends, because when we give our allegiance to the LORD GOD, when we surrender to His LORDSHIP, to the GOD and Savior, HE WILL do exceedingly, abundantly more than we can think or ask (Ephesians 3:20-21) to enable us to do just what He said: love Him with all our hearts, soul, and mind. We can REST in this. We can believe this. We can receive this with great joy!

Is my back door making sense to you?
We know from experience that the evil one gives us more help than we want to do the opposite of what GOD says to do.
SO, since the evil one does that, we KNOW the Father will go infinitely beyond and in the other direction to enable us to obey His Word.

Of course! He is going to help us to do every good thing He wants us to do!

And to all that, I can only say, Thank You, Father; we are depending on You.

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