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Friday, November 22, 2013

The Devotional - 013 - A heart of Wisdom!

A Thought for the Day – 013 – A heart of Wisdom!

Psalm 90:2-12 – To most of us God is the “go too” guy when we are in any sort of trouble, even the atheist will cry out to God for help in times of need. This is simply the response of a soul that knows God much better than our flesh does. It is far greater to recognize God for who He is since properly numbering our days will calm our flesh and establish our thoughts aright!

 

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Psalm 90:1-3 – A prayer of Moses the man of God. LORD, You have been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever You had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God. You turn man to destruction, and say, “Return, O children of men.” (And we return.)

Verses 4- 6 – For a thousand years in Your sight are like yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night You carry them away like a flood (we do not die alone, there is a flood of people returning to God at the same moment); They are like a sleep, in the morning they are like grass which grows up; in the morning it flourishes and grows up; in the evening it is cut down and withers. (Death is as real as birth so if birth is “beautiful” and it is, then why is death viewed as “ugly”? A well-kept lawn is beautiful after mowing as is the well-kept soul of the child of God)!

Verses 7 – 9 – For we have been consumed by Your anger, and by Your wrath we are terrified, You have set our iniquities before You, Our secret sins in the light of Your countenance. For all our days have passed away in Your wrath; We finish our years like a sigh. (If this thought is the epitaph on the tombstone of Moses ((if there was one) and was there not an argument concerning Moses, between the devil and Michael the archangel in a dispute over the body of Moses))? Take a look in the epistle of Jude in the first half of the chapter.

Verses 10-11 – The days of our lives are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they are eighty years, (Oh! by the way I know this one since I am well past seventy and strength is on the decline, and I rather dislike admitting it). Yet their (mankind’s) boast is only labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off and we fly away. (Yea, LORD we will one day FLY AWAY) PRAISE GOD! I have had enough of this labor and sorrow, most of which I have placed on myself and yet it is in this very thing that reveals God’s wrath over SIN that most of us to believe the following two verses).

Psalm 90:11-12 – Who knows the power of Your anger? For as the fear of You, so is Your wrath. So teach us to number our days that we may gain a heart of wisdom. (So how is your heart doing these days? If you look around as we ought, we would see multitudes of people being consumed in a wrath from God that began in the garden of Eden. A condition that is fixed and cannot be overturned by angels or men; However God loves us and He has overturned this curse or conviction by allowing His Son to be the propitiation (Favored One) to remove the wrath of God. Notice in closing:

John 1:29 – The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world; and.

John 3:36 – He who believes in the Son has everlasting life (a heart of wisdom) and he who does not believe in the Son (the heart of the fool) shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides (currently) on him.

Hebrews 9:28 - so Christ was offered to bear the sins of many, and unto them that look for Him shall He appear a second time without sin unto salvation.  Jesse <><

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