Thursday, February 01, 2007
It's Jeremiah 9:23-24 NLT
This is what the Lord says:
"Don't let the wise boast in their wisdom,
or the powerful boast in their power,
or the rich boast in their riches.
But those who wish to boast should boast in this alone:
that they truly know me and understand that I am the Lord
who demonstrates unfailing love and who brings justice and righteousness to the earth,
and that I delight in these things."
I the Lord have spoken!
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Sunday, January 21, 2007
From zee Psalms
From Psalm 3
4 I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.
5 I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.
6 I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about.
From Psalm 5
4 For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.
5 The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
6 Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
7 But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.
8 Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.
11 But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee.
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Friday, December 22, 2006
Jeremiah, continued.
And yet more. Jeremiah, though speaking to Israel, reminds me of me. I am ashamed to admit I've been distant. The reasoning of this is because I didn't want to be reminded of things that happened at a time when I wasn't. But how stupid of me to think that drifting would help get over the hurt, you dumb idiot. God take me back.
2 “Look at the shrines on every hilltop. Is there any place you have not been defiled by your adultery with other gods? You sit like a prostitute beside the road waiting for a customer. You sit alone like a nomad in the desert. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and your wickedness.
3 That’s why even the spring rains have failed. For you are a brazen prostitute and completely shameless.
4 Yet you say to me, ‘Father, you have been my guide since my youth.
5 Surely you won’t be angry forever! Surely you can forget about it!’ So you talk, but you keep on doing all the evil you can.”9 Israel treated it all so lightly—she thought nothing of committing adultery by worshiping idols made of wood and stone. So now the land has been polluted.
10 But despite all this, her faithless sister Judah has never sincerely returned to me. She has only pretended to be sorry. I, the Lord, have spoken!”
11 Then the Lord said to me, “Even faithless Israel is less guilty than treacherous Judah!
12 Therefore, go and give this message to Israel. This is what the Lord says: “O Israel, my faithless people, come home to me again, for I am merciful. I will not be angry with you forever.
13 Only acknowledge your guilt. Admit that you rebelled against the Lord your God and committed adultery against him by worshiping idols under every green tree. Confess that you refused to listen to my voice. I, the Lord, have spoken!
14 “Return home, you wayward children,” says the Lord, “for I am your master. I will bring you back to the land of Israel— one from this town and two from that family from wherever you are scattered.
15 And I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will guide you with knowledge and understanding.
16 “And when your land is once more filled with people,” says the Lord, “you will no longer wish for ‘the good old days’ when you possessed the Ark of the Lord’s Covenant. You will not miss those days or even remember them, and there will be no need to rebuild the Ark.
17 In that day Jerusalem will be known as ‘The Throne of the Lord.’ All nations will come there to honor the Lord. They will no longer stubbornly follow their own evil desires.
18 In those days the people of Judah and Israel will return together from exile in the north. They will return to the land I gave their ancestors as an inheritance forever.
19 “I thought to myself, ‘I would love to treat you as my own children!’ I wanted nothing more than to give you this beautiful land— the finest possession in the world. I looked forward to your calling me ‘Father,’ and I wanted you never to turn from me.
20 But you have been unfaithful to me, you people of Israel! You have been like a faithless wife who leaves her husband. I, the Lord, have spoken.”
21 Voices are heard high on the windswept mountains, the weeping and pleading of Israel’s people. For they have chosen crooked paths and have forgotten the Lord their God.
22 “My wayward children,” says the Lord, “come back to me, and I will heal your wayward hearts.” “Yes, we’re coming,” the people reply, “for you are the Lord our God.
23 Our worship of idols on the hills and our religious orgies on the mountains are a delusion. Only in the Lord our God will Israel ever find salvation.
24 From childhood we have watched as everything our ancestors worked for— their flocks and herds, their sons and daughters— was squandered on a delusion.
25 Let us now lie down in shame and cover ourselves with dishonor, for we and our ancestors have sinned against the Lord our God. From our childhood to this day we have never obeyed him.”
Jeremiah 3: 2-5, 9- 25
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Friday, October 27, 2006
More from Jeremiah
Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
Jer 2:5
Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
Jer 2:32
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12:37 AM
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Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Open rebuke is better than secret love.
Proverbs 27:5
I know, that one is really random.
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11:52 PM
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I've been reading Jeremiah. I wanted to read Jeremiah. I just felt like reading Jeremiah. But I'm too tired to comment too much on it right now...
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1:34 AM
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."
Jeremiah 29:11
Maybe a too-often quoted for anything and everything verse. But it always comes back to mind when I worry about what the future holds for me, which I do more than I'd like to admit. Why should I worry. Of course it doesn't mean that there won't be challenging times. But the hard times are used to form me into what God wants me to be. There's always good in everything even if I don't always find it. I don't believe there's conincidences. Simply, it's all for a reason. God made me. He knows what He's doing. Rest in it.
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12:28 AM
Thursday, September 28, 2006
Probably one of the more stupid things that I've pondered...
So if you have a real friend, do you talk to them out loud? And if you try to talk to that friend in your head, do they actually know what you're saying, unless you're into telepathy...
No, my point is not, if you pray to God in your head, He's not going to hear you unless you're into telepathy. But rather, if God is a real friend, make more of a practice of talking aloud to the real, alive friend that He is. None of this, I'm praying before I go to bed, and if I pray out loud, someone will think I've gone mental talking to myself thing.
Now I'm one who doesn't really like talking. Some people find that hard to believe, and I guess some days it isn't very believable. But make more work for my faulty jaw by talking out loud when in my head is just as good? Why take the effort?
Maybe I don't have a point. But I went to prayer meeting last night. I've never done that before. Mostly because I didn't have time to drive. But I found that I meant it that much more praying out loud, and thought about what I was saying that much more. And I decided that I should make the switch over more, which will be weird for me, the non-talker. Not because,
I am pious. I'm praying aloud, oh puh, but only for the reasons I mentioned before.
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11:59 PM
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