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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 ~ ~ ~ 
2018, Psalms

Rants

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Approximate reading time: 2 minutes

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 ~ ~ ~
2018, Psalms

Reading, Hearing

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Let us read and hear the Word of the LORD. 

Psalm 116 World English Bible (WEB)

116 I love Yahweh, because he listens to my voice,
    and my cries for mercy.
2 Because he has turned his ear to me,
    therefore I will call on him as long as I live.
3 The cords of death surrounded me,
    the pains of Sheol got a hold of me.
    I found trouble and sorrow.
4 Then I called on Yahweh’s name:
    “Yahweh, I beg you, deliver my soul.”
5 Yahweh is Gracious and righteous.
    Yes, our God is merciful.
6 Yahweh preserves the simple.
    I was brought low, and he saved me.
7 Return to your rest, my soul,
    for Yahweh has dealt bountifully with you.
8 For you have delivered my soul from death,
    my eyes from tears,
    and my feet from falling.
9 I will walk before Yahweh in the land of the living.
10 I believed, therefore I said,
    “I was greatly afflicted.”
11 I said in my haste,
    “All men are liars.”
12 What will I give to Yahweh for all his benefits toward me?
13     I will take the cup of salvation, and call on Yahweh’s name.
14 I will pay my vows to Yahweh,
    yes, in the presence of all his people.
15 Precious in Yahweh’s sight is the death of his saints.
16 Yahweh, truly I am your servant.
    I am your servant, the son of your servant.
    You have freed me from my chains.
17 I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving,
    and will call on Yahweh’s name.
18 I will pay my vows to Yahweh,
    yes, in the presence of all his people,
19 in the courts of Yahweh’s house,
    in the middle of you, Jerusalem.
Praise Yah!  source

Selah ~ ~ ~