The noise of battle is in the land,
the noise of great destruction!
How broken and shattered
is the hammer of the whole earth!
Jeremiah 50:22,23a
Green Tree Dry
And
their shouts prevailed
their demands
their will
what they asked for
Now
weep for yourselves
for the time will come
When
you will beg
the mountains to fall
the hills to cover you
Men
do these things
they do not know
what they do
they get what
their deeds deserve
darkness covering the land
But
those that know
stand at a distance
watching
not consenting
waiting
for the kingdom of God
Walley
Nations That Forget God
The wicked return to the grave, all the
nations that forget God. But the needy
will not always be forgotten, nor the
hope of the afflicted ever perish.
Psalm 9:17,18
The justice which has punished the wicked, and preserved the righteous,
remains the same, and therefore in days to come, retribution will surely
be meted out. How solemn is the seventeenth verse, especially in its
warning to forgetters of God. The moral who are not devout, the honest
who are not prayerful, the benevolent who are not believing, the amiable
who are not converted, these must all have their portion with the openly
wicked in the hell which is prepared for the devil and his angels…
Arise, O Lord, let not man triumph;
let the nations be judged in your presence.
Strike them with terror, O Lord; let the
nations know they are but men.
Psalm 9:19,20
Prayers are the believer’s weapons of war. When the battle
is too hard for us, we call in our great ally, who, as it
were, lies in ambush until faith gives the signal by crying
out,
”Arise, O Lord.” Although our cause be all but lost, it
shall be soon won again if the Almighty doth but bestir himself.
He will not suffer man to prevail over God, but with swift
judgments will confound their gloryings. In the very sight
of God the wicked will be punished, and he who is now all
tenderness will have no bowels of compassion for them,
since they had no tears of repentance while their day of
grace endured.
Charles H. Spurgeon from Treasury of David Vol 1 p.100-101.
Direct My Footsteps
Direct my footsteps according to your word;
let no sin rule over me. Redeem me from the
oppression of men, that I may obey your precepts.
Psalm 119:133,134
This is one of the Lord’s customary mercies to his chosen,
“He keepeth the feet of his saints.” By his grace he enables
us to put our feet step by step in the very place which his
word ordains. This prayer seeks a very choice favour, namely,
that every distinct act, every step, might be arranged and
governed by the will of God.
Charles H. Spurgeon from The Treasury of David Vol 3 P.379
The Lord Is Near
The Lord is righteous in all his ways
and loving toward all he has made. The Lord
is near to all who call on him, to all
who call on him in truth. He fulfills
the desires of those who fear him;
he hears their cry and saves them.
The Lord watches over all who love him,
but all the wicked he will destroy.
Psalm 145:17-20
He Is Risen!
On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the
spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the stone rolled
away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the
Lord Jesus.
While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes
that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. In their fright the women bowed
down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look
for the living among the dead? He is not here;
he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee:
‘The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, be crucified and
on the third day be raised again.’ ” Then they remembered his words.
Luke 24: 1-8
