Tag - Beautiful

Black Is Beautiful

S. O. A. P. Here’s Your 90 second AM Devotional! S-cripture: Song of Songs 1:5 Dark am I, yet lovely, daughters of Jerusalem, dark like the tents of Kedar, like the tent curtains of Solomon. O-bservation: Solomon had three hundred wives and seven hundred concubines. It’s no wonder that at least one of them was black. Some have said this is the Queen of Sheba, mentioned in other places of the Old Testament. This seems unlikely, yet this woman here is real, and most believe she was from the North Arabian tribes and descendants of Ismael. She was black, by some translations, and most likely...

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Something Beautiful From Something Broken

S. O. A. P. Here’s Your 90 second AM Devotional! S-cripture: 2 Chronicles 3:1 Then Solomon began to build the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to his father David. It was on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite, the place provided by David. O-bservation: Sometime earlier, David had sinned in numbering the fighting soldiers of Israel. God sent a plague and struck down 70,000 men of Israel because of David’s sin! David begged for the Lord to relent. God sent him to Araunah the Jebusite, who was threshing wheat, and David said, “I want to...

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