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2018, Gospel of John, Psalms

Valentine’s Day 2018

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I didn’t set out to be absent from the page the first two days of this week. So for me it is good to be here today. Valentine’s Day. 

There are at least a couple of stories reciting the purported origin of Valentine’s Day.  Which are true if any of them I do not know. But this I know. GOD DOES LOVE US!  

John 3:16 (NLT) 16 “For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. source 

Valentine’s Day can be fun. Can be overdone and underdone I suppose.  But if you KNOW the GOD of Scripture and you KNOW He loves you and you have Life Eternal every day is valentine’s. Every day you are celebrated and loved by the ONE Who matters Most!  Let us rejoice! 

Psalm 118:24  (CSB)24 This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. source

 

Click HERE and HERE for a couple of stories as to the origin of Valentine’s Day. 

Selah ~ ~ ~ 
1 Chronicles, 2 Kings, 2018, Gospel of Luke, Gospel of Matthew, Revelation

A Smack to the Head

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JT and I were pleasantly enjoying some errand running this afternoon in our area of Sweet Home Alabama when I noticed a banner erected on the lawn of a church. I honestly don’t recall the name and even if did, I wouldn’t tell you.  :)

So the banner read: Contemporary Worship.

And like a friendly smack to the head my internal word police hit me with this:

That sign just shouted to me this is not about JESUS, this is about you. We are catering to You! 

And it didn’t stop there. That smack to the head went on to say:

Worship is not about style, music, contemporary, traditional or any other such description. Worship is obedience. It’s about ascribing delight in and honor to, with elated gratitude that, GOD would even let us love and adore Him!

Now, what am I supposed to do with that I ask you?!

2 Kings 17:36 (TLV) 36 but only Adonai, who brought you up from the land of Egypt with great power and with an outstretched arm—Him will you fear, and to Him will you bow down and to Him will you sacrifice.  source

1 Chronicles 16:29  (TLV)29 Ascribe to Adonai the glory due to His Name. Bring an offering and come before Him. Worship Adonai in the splendor of holiness.  source

Matthew 14:33  (KJV) 33 Then they that were in the ship came and worshipped him, saying, Of a truth thou art the Son of God. source

Luke 24:52 (KJV) 52 And they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy:  source 

Revelation 22:9 (CSB) 9 But he said to me, “Don’t do that! I am a fellow servant with you, your brothers the prophets, and those who keep the words of this book. Worship God!”  source

For the remainder of the 188 references to Worship found in the KJV, click HERE.

Selah ~ ~ ~
2018, Psalms

Rants

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Oh how we love David. The first king GOD chose for Israel.  He termed him:  A man after Mine Own Heart. 

Even so this man we love and respect was so human; so like us.  Psalm 139.

Verses 19 – 22, David is pitching a rant.  I personally think in that moment he thought he was justified; even exhibiting appropriate behavior. But there were consequences. I think he recognized them. Following his rant he said:

 Psalm 139:23 Search me, O God, and know my heart.
Examine me, and know my anxious thoughts,
24 and see if there be any offensive way within me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.  source

Here’s what I think. Lets try it on for size. 

David had anxious thoughts. David was concerned there was offense in him. He was concerned he had offended GOD. 

Is it possible that David’s ranting; his misplaced hate was causing his anxiety and his offenses?  We believe from the Whole Counsel of God that we ONLY get to hate sin; we do not have permission from God to hate people – even people who openly hate God. 

Could it be our anxious thoughts stem from misplaced hate? Could it be that gnawing that we have offended God comes from hating someone(s) He has called us to love? 

Just pitching that out for us to consider.

Selah ~ ~ ~