Psalm 26
Of David.
Vindicate me, O Lord,
for I have walked in my integrity,
and I have trusted in the Lord without wavering.
2 Prove me, O Lord, and try me;
test my heart and my mind.
3 For your steadfast love is before my eyes,
and I walk in your faithfulness.
4 I do not sit with men of falsehood,
nor do I consort with hypocrites.
5 I hate the assembly of evildoers,
and I will not sit with the wicked.
6 I wash my hands in innocence
and go around your altar, O Lord,
7 proclaiming thanksgiving aloud,
and telling all your wondrous deeds.
8 O Lord, I love the habitation of your house
and the place where your glory dwells.
9 Do not sweep my soul away with sinners,
nor my life with bloodthirsty men,
10 in whose hands are evil devices,
and whose right hands are full of bribes.
11 But as for me, I shall walk in my integrity;
redeem me, and be gracious to me.
12 My foot stands on level ground;
in the great assembly I will bless the Lord.
Inconceivable!
Consider the life of David, this doesn't seem self-knowing. Not at all. Not at all. Not at all.
Yet all the time in David's life, David would seek God's Mercy and God would bring forth Grace upon Grace.
Imagine the faith to plan war - - - and listen to the trees. David like most of the believing world well past the Renaissance, looked for God to speak in His Creation. And in listening that closely, David could hear God's Love. Encouragement.
Isaiah 43:25
I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions
for My own sake
and remembers your sins no more.
David's Palace
God's Sake.
God does not require a broken spirit. Saul surely wanted David to have a broken spirit. Saul killed priests to show David was a criminal for the Priests being Comfort to David. David's first wife, and Princess, was chief anti-cheerleader.
David had to have the ability to live past the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. Every day. David learned specifically to put aside put downs and consider God's Opinion of David. We all do this better within the Love and Mercy God has for us. To consider His Source.
God does not require a broken spirit. Saul surely wanted David to have a broken spirit. Saul killed priests to show David was a criminal for the Priests being Comfort to David. David's first wife, and Princess, was chief anti-cheerleader.
David had to have the ability to live past the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. Every day. David learned specifically to put aside put downs and consider God's Opinion of David. We all do this better within the Love and Mercy God has for us. To consider His Source.
David had so many tell him after Saul died - David had failed. (Like the Exodus failed.) Israel saw 3 coronations after David died. God needed David to continue. John calls God, "God of Encouragement."
David's Palace
Consider Jeremiah, in the pit of David's Davidic Line Palace, explaining what God will do.
Most of us would be telling God what to do with our fellow creatures from the jail pit.
How could Jeremiah buy land and house in Judah to remain - from prison. And he did. God's own Word assures us He gave Jeremiah a Promise. Jeremiah kept hoping his neighbors and nation would be blessed.
God's Word 'has to' be seen with faith to believe Jeremiah escaped. Or we could gaze at Jeremiah's servant's Bulla even agreeing with the Bible telling us Baruch bar Neriah. Jeremiah 36:1 32. The Bulla agrees and is found in the pit prison of the Davidic Palace. Or we could check the DNA of the despised Samaritans and find they are actually the remnant of Nebuchadnezzar II's raids and conquest. We know for a fact a remnant remained after the 3 raids.
Jeremiah Lived. Thrived. Sent letters to the exile slaves in Babylon. Encouraged his fellow countrymen. Jeremiah Believed, Believed, Believed in the Light of Christ in mankind.
Jeremiah 31:34
No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more."
The days of yesterday, today and tomorrow carry the Idea:
Hebrews 8
6 But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises.
7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second.
8 For he finds fault with them when he says: “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, 9 not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. For they did not continue in my covenant, and so I showed no concern for them, declares the Lord.
10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 11 And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest. 12 For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.”
Those are a lot of Words and we can become so familiar, it's the same as if our mother or father tell us we look nice on our way to school. Inconceivable! This is overwhelming Love.
God saying the Old System of Laws created a system able to show 'No Concern." God says so Himself. And Now God would have us live in His Kingdom forever. And if we live like David, we will know, hear, feel, bask in reassurance. God remembers our sins no more.
God cut death down. Jesus gave God a New Kingdom. The ability to have Heaven purified. And God said His own Law would change. Jesus paid for the change.
David knew God and God returned the favor!!! Not Really.
John grew and grew and grew living in this world even to the 2nd Century. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof.
John explained Jesus as God. Our God.
1 John 4:19
We love
because he first loved us.
Abba, Father God,
When Julie Andrews sang, "I must have done something Good," with Christopher Plummer - our Father God does agree. When Max Lucado said, "God, if He needs a refrigerator, has your picture on there." You, God would agree. you would be on His Refrigerator.
God said His Creation is Good. The Bang up is saying yesterday, today and tomorrow we are blessed to remember God's creation is Good. We are Blessed to seek and find and ask for more Heaven on earth. God's Word calls Life Good.
We are Blessed to call on the Name of Jesus to cover us. We are blessed to fight our battles with prayer. Our conversation with You that is ongoing. Like Jeremiah in prison buying his next house. Making good plans. W!e are blessed to go forth like Paul, knowing it's not all ok, but we will rush forward with Joy, Peace and Love. God Approves and Runs to us with His Love.
His Word says if we seek to please God - we do.
More Heaven on earth! More seeking and seeing the Willingness of You - our Good Father. More lifting our cares to Heaven and Your Capable Hands.
More being like David listening to Your Love. More of our Good Father God's Encouragement. More covered by Jesus by those we Love. More of Jesus' Love for our Nations and the Nations seeking You. More Heaven on earth.
More Thanks for our blessings. More love for cancer to leave Elliott and, Thank You, Elliott does not have Pneumonia. We pray no more broken spine for this cancer. Remembering Jesus with all love the times Elliott spoke up with such mercy and spine for Your Good. More healing for Elliott who has said I won't have Jesus taken from me. Truly nothing can remove us from Jesus. More Jesus. More Healing. Speak the Word Lord God.
More healing for Dee with a broken lumbar. More Strength for one Strong in the Lord. More of our Prayers Graced as we look and see with expectation more Grace on Grace.
Amen in Jesus. Covered in Jesus. Amen.
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