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2022, Psalms, Questions

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Psalm 92

Have you read it lately? I urge you to do so.

Are you able with an earnest heart to say verse 4 (or 5 depending on your translation) and mean it?

“For, ADONAI, what you do makes me happy;
I take joy in what your hands have made,”
source 

Does GOD make you happy?
I mean I know it is His Will to make us Holy; but does He also make you happy?

Do you have aught against Him?
Has He allowed some hurts into your life that brought you to a place of doubt; doubting His love for you and even His Goodness?

Psalm 92 also reads this way:

“How great are your deeds, ADONAI!
How very deep your thoughts!” 
source

Are you displeased with His Deeds? (See Psalm 145: 17-18)
Some years ago these two verses saved my sanity and my trust in Him.
Hurts happen. Perhaps even more often than we can admit to ourselves.
But there is GREAT NEWS — He forgives. He restores. He makes new over and over when we ask. 

One more:

“15(14) Even in old age they will be vigorous, still full of sap, still bearing fruit,
16 (15) proclaiming that ADONAI is upright, my Rock, in whom there is no wrong.”
source

Is that your testimony?
If we with an open and honest heart will always say He is my Rock, in whom there is no wrong, I think our sap will be full and our fruit delicious even when we are older than I am now. :)

What do you say? 

2022, A Quick Hello, Psalms

A Picture with Words

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Do we believe this?

Then by all means let our faces proclaim it.

Happy Monday, my Friends.

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2 Kings, 2022

Chariots and Horsemen

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2 Kings 2

Elijah. 
Obviously, a Prophet of The LORD.
Obviously, also a man with feet of clay. 
Not perfect.
And yet he did not die. 
He left this earth but he did NOT die. 

Elijah mentored Elisha.
Elisha refused to leave Elijah.
Elisha stayed to see; stayed with Elijah to learn and receive all that would come to him.
A double portion; that was his request. 
His request was granted. 
And Elijah died. (See 2 Kings 13:20)

GOD loves all His children.
He loves each and every one of us BUT our relationship with Him is individual.
No two of us are the same; in other words, each one of us who are His Children is each perfectly loved and individually cared for by Him in individual ways. 

Not that I understand it but I noticed in 2 Kings 2 Elisha said to Elijah as Elijah was leaving: 

12 Elisha saw it and cried out, “My father! My father! The chariots and horsemen of Isra’el!” .  .  .   source 

And in 2 Kings 13 Joash, King of Israel said to Elisha as Elisha was dying: 

14 .  .  . Joash the king of Israel .  .  .   said, “My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!”  source

Perhaps, Prophets of GOD are more important to our defense than chariots and horsemen.
Perhaps, this is something for us to ponder.