Thursday's Blog - 005 - Catching the Rabbit

A Prayer of Moses the man of God.

 

 

Do you know where those words in the title above show up in your Bible? it would be Psalm 90, before verse 1 and it is included as the Word of God. I would say that it is knowing how to put first things first, which in many lives is a personal error since we overlook our priorities all too often. For an example, there was a day when the recipe for rabbit stew began with this command; "First catch the rabbit."

 

His conversation in this Psalm is a prayer: "LORD, You have been our dwelling place in all generations".

 

My! My! Do we even think to acknowledge the omnipresence of God when we begin praying? I can hardly get a hold on that thought. God has been very present or I can say that God has a Personally intense presence with Creation since time began; He is personally involved with our life. Just the thought of this "rocks" my soul. Thus I believe that this is why King David can say in Psalm 51:1.

 

"Have mercy upon me, O God. According to Your loving-kindness; According to the multitude of Your tender mercies. Blot out my transgressions".

 

I believe that we fail to acknowledge the presence of God in every moment of every day; which should be our very first priority, even as soon as we get up each morning. He is that close to us, if it were not so, then think about it. We simply would not be alive. Don't think of saying "Bosh!" to this... notice what David says a little later in life in Psalm 139:17 "How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them. 18. if I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand; When I awake, I am still with You.

 

Oh my soul! What a joy to know that God is so ever present with me; also I think that this is the bottom line to the apostle Paul's words in Romans 8:37-39

 

"Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loves us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our LORD.

 

So carry on brothers and sisters in Christ. Go and catch the rabbit!

 

 

Thursday's Blog - 004 - Faithfulness, the Character of God's People

Thanks Giving

Psalm 100

 

This month we in the United States of America have set aside a day to give Thanks to God for such a great Homeland. Thursday two weeks from today, people all across this nation will have some awareness to say thank you; but sadly it will not be to Thee God of the Holy Bible.

 

While we do not have time to go into all of avenues of thanks available for this day out of one year, I would; just like to look at the word "Thanksgiving" it is a grand looking word is it not? Traditionally it appears in our history as one of the pillars of Freedom, but sadly like all of our " U.S. American Pillars" it is stained with the deceptive ideologies of unprincipled men and women, who for a piece of bread on this sanctified day have sold their soul to the devil.

 

Our nation once led the shout of Psalm 100 for all the earth to praise God, but today I am told that the United States of America is the saddest country of all in the lands of God's inhabited world. It is time that we change our tune... don't you think!

 

Make a joyful shout to the LORD, all you lands!

Serve the LORD with gladness; Come before His presence with singing.

Know that the LORD, He is God;

It is He who made us, and not we ourselves;

We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.

 

Enter into His gates with thanks giving,

And into His courts with praise.

Be thankful to Him, and bless His name.

For the LORD is good; His mercy is everlasting,

And His truth endures to all generations.

 

 

Thursday - Psalm 119:1-8

Matthew 24:44 - Then He said to them, "These are the words which I spoke to your while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me."

PSALM 119:1-8

 

Aleph

Blessed are the undefiled (blameless) in the way,

Who walk in the law of the LORD!

Blessed are those who keep His testimonies (witness),

Who seek Him with the "whole" heart!

These also do no iniquity (evil)

They walk in His ways.

 

You have commanded us to keep Your precepts (mandates) diligently.

Oh that my ways were directed to keep Your statutes! (appointments)

Then I would not be ashamed,

When I look into all Your commandments. (collective as in precepts, judgments, statutes; etc.)

 

I will praise You with uprightness of heart,

When I learn Your righteous judgments. (formal decrees)

I will keep Your statutes; (appointments)

Oh, do not forsake me utterly!

 

We cannot in our fleshly heart obey Gods, commands, precepts, judgments and statutes; our witness of these attributes of God falls short of what He expects. What is it that God expects - Holiness, or absolute purity; Jesus states clearly that the burden of holiness is easy. Matthew 11:28-30 - Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.