Yearly archives: 2023

The Lord Was Grieved

August 26, 2023 testadmin

 

The Lord saw how great man’s wickedness
on the earth had become, and that every inclination
of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all
the time.

The Lord was grieved that he had made man on the earth,

and his heart was filled with pain.

Genesis 6:5,6

“Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it
be in the days of the Son of Man. People were eating,
drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to
the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and
destroyed them all.”       Luke 17:26, 27

We Will Not Fear

July 31, 2023 testadmin

God is our refuge and strength,
an ever-present help in trouble.

   
Therefore we will not fear, though
the earth give way and the mountains
fall into the heart of the sea, though
its waters roar and foam and the
mountains quake with their surging.

Psalm 46:1-3

How awesome is the Lord Most High,
the great King over all the earth!

He subdued nations under us,
peoples under our feet.

Psalm 47: 2,3

You Mighty Man

July 30, 2023 testadmin

 

Why do you boast of evil, you mighty man?
Why do you boast all day long, you who are
a disgrace in the eyes of God?

Your tongue plots destruction; it is like a
sharpened razor,

you who practice deceit.

You love evil rather than good, falsehood
rather than speaking the truth.
You love every harmful word, O you deceitful tongue!

Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin:

He will snatch you up and tear you from your tent;

he will uproot you from the land of the living.
The righteous will see and fear; they will laugh
at him, saying,

“Here now is the man who did not make God his
stronghold but trusted in his great wealth and
grew strong by destroying others!”

Psalm 52: 1-7

Their Homes Are Safe

July 29, 2023 testadmin

“Is my complaint directed to man? Why should I not be impatient?
Look at me and be astonished; clap your hand over your mouth.
When I think about this, I am terrified; trembling seizes my body.

Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?
They see their children established around them, their offspring before their
eyes. Their homes are safe and free from fear; the rod of God is not upon them.
Their bulls never fail to breed; their cows calve and do not miscarry.

They send forth their children as a flock; their little ones dance about. They sing
to the music of tambourine and harp; they make merry to the sound of the flute. They
spend their years in prosperity and go down to the grave in peace.

Yet they say to God, ‘Leave us alone! We have no desire to know your ways.

Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him?

What would we gain by praying to him?’

But their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stand aloof from the counsel of
the wicked. “Yet how often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out? How often does
calamity come upon them, the fate God allots in his anger?

How often are they like
straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a gale? It is said, ‘God stores up a man’s
punishment for his sons.’ Let him repay the man himself, so that he will know it!

Let his own eyes see his destruction; let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

          For what does he care about the family he leaves behind

when his allotted months come to an end?

Job 21: 4-21

Take A Firm Stand

July 28, 2023 testadmin

If they tell you that in some other place,
one can find solace
And true salvation, other than in one God,
They mean to destroy your soul;
Take a firm stand.

 

Marguerite De Navarre (1492-1549)

“Reformation Women” by Rebecca VanDoodewaard p.33

I Lift Up My Eyes

June 18, 2023 testadmin

 

I lift up my eyes to you, to you whose throne is in heaven.
As the eyes of slaves look to the hand of their master,
as the eyes of a maid look to the hand of her mistress,
so our eyes look to the Lord our God, till he shows us his mercy.

Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us, for we have endured
much contempt.
We have endured much ridicule from the proud, much contempt
from the arrogant.

Psalm 123

Seek My Face

June 17, 2023 testadmin

 

if my people, who are called by my name,
will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked
ways,

then will I hear from heaven and
will forgive their sin and will heal
their land.

2 Chronicles 7:14

Slavery/Worship

June 16, 2023 testadmin

The State takes the place of God…
the socialist dictatorships are religions,
and State slavery is a form of worship.

Carl Jung (1875-1961)

 

No One Like You

June 15, 2023 testadmin

 

Then Asa called to the Lord his God
and said, “Lord, there is no one like
you to help the powerless against the
mighty.

Help us, O Lord our God,
for we rely on you, and in your name
we have come against this vast army.
O Lord, you are our God; do not let
man prevail against you.”

2 Chronicles 14:11

Your Path

May 31, 2023 testadmin

 

Your path led through the sea, your way through the mighty waters, though your footprints were not seen.

Psalm 77:19

 

And the sea appears to be the most trackless of worlds! The sea is the very symbol of mystery, the grim dwelling-house of the innumerable things that have been lost. But God’s way moves here and there across this trackless wild. God is never lost among our mysteries. He knows His way about. When we are bewildered He sees the road, and He sees the end even from the beginning. Even the sea, in every part of it, is the Lord’s highway. When His way is in the sea we cannot trace it. Mystery is part of our appointed discipline.

J.H. Jowett (from Daily Meditation. 1914)