Micha Jazz
Micha Jazz is Director of Resources at Waverley Abbey, UK.
Your glory is higher than the heavens. Psalm 8:1b
I note the word ‘glory’ is of uncertain origin. This is fitting for something that lies beyond our reach and comprehension as the heavens themselves. Glory indicates honour, splendour and fame....
O Lord, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth! Psalm 8:1a
The name of God is majestic; both beautiful and powerful. It commands our admiration, and while this is easily said, it’s not always evident in our lived experience....
The Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken. Genesis 3:23
Living with the consequences of poor decisions can prove challenging. Yet it requires the same mindset that we...
Also for the man and his wife the Lord God made tunics of skin, and clothed them. Genesis 3:21
Our popular image of right and wrong leads us to imagine right being rewarded and wrong punished. Yet, God doesn’t operate...
Then the man named his wife Eve, because she would be the mother of all who live. Genesis 3:20
Within life there is a source of perpetual hope. While life is contested in so many ways, life is itself irrepressible....
Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. Genesis 3:17b
Life is a struggle. Finding work to provide both a home and food consumes the largest...
And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and hers. Genesis 3:15a
It was St. Paul who helpfully pointed out that we each struggle to do what we positively intend to do: ‘For I...
The man and the woman hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. Genesis 3:8b
Earlier this year Jayne, my wife, had Covid-19. No temperature and no cough, but a loss of voice. Directed to A &...
Satan said to the woman, ‘Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?’ Genesis 3:1b
Rivers of ink have been spilt writing about prayer. Yet, we remain uncertain in our prayers. Do I pray...
For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son. John 3:9
Like Nicodemus, everyone is searching to satisfy an inner angst. So much is demanded of us from life that it’s easy to lose...
