Declaring His truth, His love for us.

Ps. {30:9} What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit?
Shall the dust praise thee?
shall it declare thy ********TRUTH******?
{30:10} Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me LORD,
be thou my helper.

**In death, we don’t praise God.
In death, we don’t declare God’s truth.

Declaring God’s truth.

I’ve been reading from a book called, ‘Mere Christianity’ by C.S. Lewis. Now, I don’t agree with it 100%, but I have to say 98% of it has hit home. Lewis tried to right a book that when outside of any one Christian faith, not for Catholics or Protestants be for any Christian or either main faith. I think for the most part he succeeded. If you haven’t read the book you should.

I bring up the book because in it Lewis talks in one section about living for heaven. I’m not going to give exact quotes, but he says something along the lines of if we live for heaven we’ll automatically live life here in a much better way. How those who don’t live for heaven actually have less respect for life here. It’s sort of paradoxical but I can understand what he was trying to say.

Living for heaven as a reality, a place where we will one day live, a place promised to us to be free of all the pain that we encounter in our lives, and others in theirs, a place where Jesus our Lord and Savior lives, living with heaven in our sights can be amazing. Knowing that the here and now isn’t all there is, it something Jesus did, something Jesus taught. He taught hope and placed the hope where it belonged- in Heaven.

Right here in this particular truth Psalm it says-

Ps. {30:9} What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit?
Shall the dust praise thee?
shall it declare thy ********TRUTH******?
{30:10} Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me LORD,
be thou my helper.

**
In death we are not able to praise God. In death we cannot declare the Lord’s truth.

We are to praise God and declare His truth.

John {17:17} Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

John {1:1} In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God.
{1:2} The same was in the beginning with God.
{1:3} All things were made by him;
and without him was not any thing made that was made.
{1:4} In him was life;
and the life was the light of men.
{1:5} And the light shineth in darkness;
and the darkness comprehended it not.

John {1:14} And the Word was made flesh,
And dwelt among us,
and we beheld his glory,
the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,
full of grace and truth.

**

Jesus is the truth, His way is the truth, He became man and brought with him grace and truth.

Declaring His truth, His love for us.

Jesus came to earth and sacrificed Himself for us out of love, and His apostles declared His truth, we are all to declare His truth in our lives, all of us.

Help us oh Lord God to declare Your truth, Your love, life in You now while we live. We can’t witness of You and Your love and mercy once we are dead, we have to witness for You now and we need You in us to do so. Bless and keep us Lord, by the mercy of Your amazing, all merciful, all loving Son, Jesus Christ, who came to declare You to the world, now and forever in Him, by His grace.
Amen.