Psa 78:36
Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with
their tongues.
Psa 78:37 For
their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his
covenant.
Psa 78:38 But
he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not:
yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his
wrath.
Psa 78:39 For
he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh
not again.
God, our Creator,
has NEVER been a God who has forgotten His creatures. Paying close attention to
us He has watched as we've rejected Him, over and over, and over again. He has
grown angry at us, at our outright refusal to accept His love. He's had to watch
us make such an awful mess of something He created to be beautiful beyond our
imaginings.
As human beings we
can comprehend anger, righteous anger.
Anger in itself isn't wrong.
Mar_3:5 And
when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the
hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And
he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.
Jesus became angry
and Jesus never sinned, not once in any way at all. Like His Father, Jesus' anger was a righteous
anger, a justified anger.
Eph 4:26 Be ye
angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath
Jas 1:19
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak,
slow to wrath:
Jas 1:20 For
the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
We too can be angry
and not sin, yet our anger MUST be a slow anger. Our anger won't work
righteousness like God's, our anger can turn into something truly awful,
sinful. Is it any wonder our anger needs
to be well in check.
God's anger is
justified.
Psa 78:36
Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with
their tongues.
Psa 78:37 For
their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his
covenant.
Psa 78:38 But
he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not:
yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his
wrath.
Psa 78:39 For
he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh
not again.
People flatter God
with their lips all the time.
People lie to God
every single day.
The heart of people
are NOT right with God.
People are NOT
stedfast in God's covenant.
Regardless of ALL
our disobedience, God is filled with compassion.
God forgive us!
God hasn't destroyed
us outright wiping all humanity out of existence.
God knows we are but
flesh- weak, weak flesh.
We can't forget
this, we can't ignore this aspect of our God, our Creator.
We aren't perfect in
His eyes by a long shot, but He doesn't look to us for perfection. He looks to
His Son's sacrifice and hears His Son's prayer--
Joh 17:1 These
words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour
is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:
Joh 17:2 As
thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to
as many as thou hast given him.
Joh 17:3 And
this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus
Christ, whom thou hast sent.
Joh 17:4 I
have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me
to do.
Joh 17:5 And
now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had
with thee before the world was.
Joh 17:6 I
have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world:
thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.
Joh 17:7 Now
they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of
thee.
Joh 17:8 For I
have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received
them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed
that thou didst send me.
Joh 17:9 I
pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me;
for they are thine.
Joh 17:10 And
all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.
Joh 17:11 And
now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee.
Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that
they may be one, as we are.
Joh 17:12
While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou
gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that
the scripture might be fulfilled.
Joh 17:13 And
now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have
my joy fulfilled in themselves.
Joh 17:14 I
have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not
of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Joh 17:15 I
pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou
shouldest keep them from the evil.
Joh 17:16 They
are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Joh 17:17
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
Joh 17:18 As
thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the
world.
Joh 17:19 And
for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through
the truth.
Joh 17:20
Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me
through their word;
Joh 17:21 That
they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also
may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
Joh 17:22 And
the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as
we are one:
Joh 17:23 I in
them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world
may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved
me.
Joh 17:24
Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am;
that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me
before the foundation of the world.
Joh 17:25 O
righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and
these have known that thou hast sent me.
Joh 17:26 And
I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love
wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
More on this
tomorrow by the GRACE, the WILL of our LORD and SAVIOR, JESUS CHRIST now and
forever!
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