Tuesday's Blog - Psalm 5 - A few thoughts

 

 

 

Tuesday’s Blog – just a few thoughts

1 To the Chief Musician. With flutes. A Psalm of David. Give ear to my words, O Lord, Consider my meditation.                     

2 Give heed to the voice of my cry, My King and my God, For to You I will pray.                     

3 My voice You shall hear in the morning, O Lord; In the morning I will direct it to You, And I will look up.                     

4 For You are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness, Nor shall evil dwell with You.

5 The boastful shall not stand in Your sight; You hate all workers of iniquity.

6 You shall destroy those who speak falsehood; The Lord abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man. 7 But as for me, I will come into Your house in the multitude of Your mercy; In fear of You I will worship toward Your holy temple.

8 Lead me, O Lord, in Your righteousness because of my enemies; Make Your way straight before my face.    

                  9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; Their inward part is destruction; Their throat is an open tomb; They flatter with their tongue.

10 Pronounce them guilty, O God! Let them fall by their own counsels; Cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions, For they have rebelled against You.

11 But let all those rejoice who put their trust in You; Let them ever shout for joy, because You defend them; Let those also who love Your name Be joyful in You.

12 For You, O Lord, will bless the righteous; With favor You will surround him as with a shield.

 

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On this side of eternity, prayer is one of three sources of communication that links us to our Creator God. We should use all three sources all of the time. These are: (1) Our Soul: Ecclesiastes 3:11 in that our soul knows that eternity exists even though it does not understand the work of God and yet will cry out to Him. (2) The Living Word of God that knows the condition of man’s heart and is able to separate our soul from its residence in the flesh; Hebrews 4:12 and (3) prayer that is able to; at the very moment we pray, connect us to our Creator, Jeremiah 33:3.

 

Believe it or not – these three intrinsic characteristics as developed in life and godliness are the only resources we will take or have reserved in heaven for us when we get there. Looking at prayer first: Revelation 5:8 – Now when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty four elders fell down before the Lamb, each having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

 

Secondly, looking at the Living Word of God, all of Proverbs 3:1-35 and Psalm 19:1-14 helps to understand the eternal results of God’s wisdom in our heart and Psalm 19:14 provides the purpose for you and me to put the Wisdom of God where God intends for us to place it… Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of heart be acceptable in Your Sight, O LORD, my strength and my Redeemer.

 

Thirdly, our soul; our soul belongs to God and it is the one gift from God to you and me that will return to Him. Ezekiel 18:4 says this; well let me start in verse 1. The word of the LORD came to me again, saying “What do you mean when you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying: The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge”? “As I live”, says the LORD God, “you shall no longer use this proverb in Israel. Behold, all souls are MINE; The soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is MINE; the soul who sins shall die. “Fathers do not make your children eat the sour grapes of life; as many of us have” as you could be the root cause for their soul’s death.

 

Now we might be wondering what all of this has to do with Jesus Christ and the Season we celebrate as His Birth. Jesus is the Perfect Gift that fits all the souls created by God; He is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, if our soul is filled with the world. God has provided the Lamb whom we all need – John 1:29. Jesus is also the Living Word of God; again the apostle John makes this very clear in 1 John 1:1-4; with Jesus in your soul you have the capacity for taking in more of the Living Word daily. And lastly, praying to God is taught by Jesus, just as He taught His disciples – Matthew 6:9-15. While it is sometimes automatic to pray, it is always good to know how to pray.