Psalm 101 ~ dwell with Me

Psalm 101


English Standard Version, David Cochran Audio

I will sing of steadfast love and justice;
to you, O Lord, I will make music.
2 I will ponder the way that is blameless.
Oh when will you come to me?
I will walk with integrity of heart
within my house;
3 I will not set before my eyes
anything that is worthless.
I hate the work of those who fall away;
it shall not cling to me.
4 A perverse heart shall be far from me;
I will know nothing of evil.

5 Whoever slanders his neighbor secretly
I will destroy.
Whoever has a haughty look and an arrogant heart
I will not endure.

6 I will look with favor on the faithful in the land,
that they may dwell with me;
he who walks in the way that is blameless
shall minister to me.

7 No one who practices deceit
shall dwell in my house;
no one who utters lies
shall continue before my eyes.

8 Morning by morning I will destroy
all the wicked in the land,
cutting off all the evildoers
from the city of the Lord.

Lots of people thinking of the end of the world billboards. David Letterman wondering about Monday, 2 days after the world ends. Will the world will end in Eastern, Central or Pacific time? I have to spend time congratulating him for the joke - great minds think alike - we were wondering it in our ladies group on Tuesday.

Reddit website had an end of the world celebration releasing human shaped balloons.

All this talk about the end of the world made me think of Heaven. God is God of the Living. I was thinking today of the lack of good fiction about Heaven. We went to see the movie Thor last weekend, interesting Asgard - yet far from my idea of heaven. Some of the ideas of Heaven, in fiction, are chillingly limited to life experiences like "These Lovely Bones." Brrrr.

Christian books like "90 Minutes in Heaven"and "Heaven is for Real" all tell the same ideas of Heaven even listed in my family genealogy of the people from Richardson, Louisiana. With letters dating back more than one hundred years, people discussing entering Heaven as they enter.

Jesus told us about the Kingdom of Heaven, He said it is ... at hand. Now. Living and dwelling with us. We are the hands, feet, conversation, acts, words and work in the Lord's prayer saying Thy will be done on Heaven and on earth. Eternity doesn't start - when, it starts as we trust the Lord and believe in His promises to us.

We live the Kingdom of Heaven: Making music with a repeating chorus ~ in our lives of steadfast love, justice, blameless paths, pure hearts and faithful conversations. The world does not have to end for us to say:

Matthew 5:14
You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.

Psalm 118:24
This is the day that the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.





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