Isaiah 7:15
15Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
Isaiah 7:22
22And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.
Psalms 119:103
103How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
**
I was fascinated by this verse- 'Butter and honey shall he eat-- that he may know to refuse the evil and choose the good.'
We read of God having Moses lead the children of Israel through the wilderness to the promised land flowing with milk and honey.
Milk and honey signifying what exactly?
Think about it a moment.
If someone promised to take you to a land flowing with milk and honey you'd most likely look at them as if they were screwy. Why would you want to go to a land flowing with milk and honey? You might not even like milk or honey all that much, then again you could love them both. Even if you did love them do you imagine yourself in a land flowing with milk and honey? Yet, this was the promised land, a land flowing with milk and honey. Surely it signifies something a bit more doesn't it?
A land where there is no hunger.
Not only is there no hunger the food is sweet and rich.
Surely back then milk and honey were reserved for the wealthy Egyptians, with the Israelites subsisting on foods much less rich and sweet. Throughout time slaves were given nothing like those of their masters. Slaves were given just what they needed to survive and nothing overly good, nothing overly special. I'm talking about the majority of slaves, not a miniority that might have been treated differently.
Being enslaved leaves you at the mercy of your masters and very few masters wanted their slaves to exist on the same level as they did. Slaves were beneath their masters and the quality of living reflected this fact.
Promised a land flowing in milk and honey.
Maybe that doesn't exactly excite your thoughts, what about a promise land of endless wealth? Got your attention now? Not surprising.
The promise of a land flowing in milk and honey was the promise of a land where the Israelites could live free of enslavement and in comfort. Did that mean they no longer had to work? No. But it meant they were working for themselves and their families in a land that would bring forth abundantly as opposed to being enslaved and working so another reaped the wealth of your labor while leaving you virtually nothing but what was necessary to survive.
Milk and honey, butter and honey. Good things, wonderful things.
Isaiah 7:15
15Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
Wouldn't it be amazing if we were simply to eat butter and honey and then we'd know to refuse evil and choose good? I'd run out and buy a ton of butter and honey if that were the case and that's all I'd eat.
What made it so that 'he' may know to refuse the evil and choose the good?
Perhaps knowing the good was enough to know that evil was bad?
Knowing the sweetness and tastiness of butter and honey surely made a striking contrast to anything bitter and distasteful.
When you have the good why would you seek the bad?
Be content with the good knowing it's good rather than go to anything that might be evil.
Choose the good, knowing good.
Refuse the evil, because if you have the good already you need nothing else, nothing.
It's not necessary to seek the good if you have it already, right?
How much evil in our lives comes about when we're not at all content with the good we know to be good, but rather we seek something more...something better than good.
What allure do mind altering drugs and excess of alcohol hold for people?
The promise of something special? A feeling that will supercede all others? And yet, think about it for a moment. Drugs and alcohol offer that feeling at a cost don't they? When something comes with a cost- taking from us, giving us a price to pay for those fleeting moments of illusory special feelings- is it really good? When we're ripped of our ability to reason is this a good thing, really?
Evil offers an illusion of goodness and makes you pay in the end.
Goodness will not cost you a thing. Goodness will not exact from you a price. Goodness is pure and not chock full of regret. Anything that has the potential to cause endless regret- can it be a good thing? I suppose some might argue that you can come to regret doing good things and it's true but usually when sin is hounding you, pounding at you relentlessly trying to drag you back down into the depths of despair.
To be content with goodness, learning of the good things early on teaches us that choosing good is right, and refusing the evil necessary.
Read this--
Isaiah-
{7:14} Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign;
Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall
call his name Immanuel. {7:15} Butter and honey shall he
eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the
good.
Truely, if (and I'm no Biblical scholar in any way, shape, or form) these verses meld together and it is the child Jesus eating butter and honey so that He may know to refuse the evil and choose the good, well, we really need to think about this a little bit and contemplate the meaning, don't we?
I could be way off on my interpretation, but God willing, not too far.
May our hearts and minds be open to the Holy Spirit guiding us into all truth, all by the mercy and grace of our Lord and our Savior, Jesus Christ God's only Son! Forgive us Jesus and open our hearts and mind to you now and always.
By His grace!
Amen.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Friday, February 27, 2009
Here am I send me
Isa. {6:5} Then said I, Woe [is] me! for I am undone; because
I [am] a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a
people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King,
the LORD of hosts. {6:6} Then flew one of the seraphims
unto me, having a live coal in his hand, [which] he had
taken with the tongs from off the altar: {6:7} And he laid
[it] upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips;
and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. {6:8}
Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I
send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here [am] I; send
me.
Aren't we all people with unclean lips?
Don't we all dwell with people of unclean lips?
Are any of us clean?
We desire to be the Lord's even as sin reigns in and around us.
We fight against the sin in ourselves striving to resist the devil so he'll flee from us.
We cling to Jesus and beg for His mercy, His grace.
We long to be made clean by our Lord and Savior.
Isaiah knew his unclean state, knew he was not fit to be the Lord's.
One of God's angels plucked a live coal from the altar and touched Isaiah's lips with it.
Then the angel said-
'Lo, this hath touched thy lips- and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin is purged.'
The coal from the altar touched his lips.
Isaiah was lamenting the fact he was a man of unclean lips living among those with unclean lips.
He was a sinner among sinners.
His sin was taken away by the Lord's messenger with a live coal.
Purged, burned away, the unclean made cleaned.
We all need to be made clean, every one of us.
May the Lord's mercy rain down upon us. May our lips be touched by a live coal from God.
May we hear the call of the Lord and reply-- Here we are Lord, send us.
Only by the grace and mercy of the Lord can we be saved, can we be made clean.
Lord, hear our prayer as we cry out to be made clean, to be used by you.
By the mercy and grace of Jesus.
**
A song based on this verse in Isaiah--
Kutless
Take me in
Take me past the outer courts
Into the Holy place
Past the brazen altar
Lord I want to see Your face
Pass me by the crowds of people
The priests who sing Your praise
I hunger and thirst for Your righteousness
But it's only found one place
Take me in to the Holy of Holies
Take me in by the blood of the Lamb
Take me in to the Holy of Holies
Take the coal, touch my lips, here I am
Take me past the outer courts
Into the Holy place
Past the brazen altar
Lord I want to see Your face
Pass me by the crowds of people
The priests who sing Your praise
I hunger and thirst for Your righteousness
But it's only found one place
Take me past the outer courts
Into the Holy place
Past the brazen altar
Lord I want to see Your face
Pass me by the crowds of people
The priests who sing Your praise
I hunger and thirst for Your righteousness
But it's only found one place
Take me in to the Holy of Holies
Take me in by the blood of the Lamb
Take me in to the Holy of Holies
Take the coal, touch my lips, here I am
Take me in to the Holy of Holies
Take me in by the blood of the Lamb
Take me in to the Holy of Holies
Take the coal, touch my lips, here I am
Take the coal, touch my lips, here I am
I [am] a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a
people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King,
the LORD of hosts. {6:6} Then flew one of the seraphims
unto me, having a live coal in his hand, [which] he had
taken with the tongs from off the altar: {6:7} And he laid
[it] upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips;
and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. {6:8}
Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I
send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here [am] I; send
me.
Aren't we all people with unclean lips?
Don't we all dwell with people of unclean lips?
Are any of us clean?
We desire to be the Lord's even as sin reigns in and around us.
We fight against the sin in ourselves striving to resist the devil so he'll flee from us.
We cling to Jesus and beg for His mercy, His grace.
We long to be made clean by our Lord and Savior.
Isaiah knew his unclean state, knew he was not fit to be the Lord's.
One of God's angels plucked a live coal from the altar and touched Isaiah's lips with it.
Then the angel said-
'Lo, this hath touched thy lips- and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin is purged.'
The coal from the altar touched his lips.
Isaiah was lamenting the fact he was a man of unclean lips living among those with unclean lips.
He was a sinner among sinners.
His sin was taken away by the Lord's messenger with a live coal.
Purged, burned away, the unclean made cleaned.
We all need to be made clean, every one of us.
May the Lord's mercy rain down upon us. May our lips be touched by a live coal from God.
May we hear the call of the Lord and reply-- Here we are Lord, send us.
Only by the grace and mercy of the Lord can we be saved, can we be made clean.
Lord, hear our prayer as we cry out to be made clean, to be used by you.
By the mercy and grace of Jesus.
**
A song based on this verse in Isaiah--
Kutless
Take me in
Take me past the outer courts
Into the Holy place
Past the brazen altar
Lord I want to see Your face
Pass me by the crowds of people
The priests who sing Your praise
I hunger and thirst for Your righteousness
But it's only found one place
Take me in to the Holy of Holies
Take me in by the blood of the Lamb
Take me in to the Holy of Holies
Take the coal, touch my lips, here I am
Take me past the outer courts
Into the Holy place
Past the brazen altar
Lord I want to see Your face
Pass me by the crowds of people
The priests who sing Your praise
I hunger and thirst for Your righteousness
But it's only found one place
Take me past the outer courts
Into the Holy place
Past the brazen altar
Lord I want to see Your face
Pass me by the crowds of people
The priests who sing Your praise
I hunger and thirst for Your righteousness
But it's only found one place
Take me in to the Holy of Holies
Take me in by the blood of the Lamb
Take me in to the Holy of Holies
Take the coal, touch my lips, here I am
Take me in to the Holy of Holies
Take me in by the blood of the Lamb
Take me in to the Holy of Holies
Take the coal, touch my lips, here I am
Take the coal, touch my lips, here I am
Thursday, February 26, 2009
The Gardener
Isaiah
{5:1} Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill
{5:2} And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
{5:3} And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
{5:4} What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
{5:5} And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; [and] break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down
{5:6} And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
{5:7} For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts [is] the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
Imagine a loving person creating a beautiful vineyard, in a beautiful location. There He is putting up a protective wall around the vineyard to keep it safe. Then as any good gardener He prepares the soil by getting all the rocks out of the ground. Only when the ground is prepared does He plant the best plants He possibly can. With great hopes for His vineyard He builds a wonderful tower in the garden as the plants are growing, He even builds a winepress as He anticipates creating the best wine ever.
Then...as the time approaches to examine the grapes coming forth what does He see!? Wild grapes! He hadn't planted wild grapes, but there they are. His garden, His vineyard are ruined.
The gardener asks all those around who had been watching Him create this wonderful vineyard what He could have done more for the vineyard, didn't He do all He could to make it the most wonderful vineyard ever?
He has no choice, He has to do something with this horrible mess of a vineyard.
So He takes away the protective wall about it, it's a slow process as He lays waste to what was once was supposed to be wonderful.
The Gardener will no longer prune the vines, no longer dig at the soil to loosen it up to keep it so the water can get to the roots. He will no longer pull the weeds, the thorns, the briers. In fact there is no longer reason to water the plants they are wild and can no longer be pure and good.
What's all this mean?
As an analogy it means God lovingly created a people whom He nourished and gave all the advantages He could so that His people would flourish and become wonderful, happy, content, beautiful people. Instead, even after having all the advantages His people turn out to be spiteful, unhappy, bad. God did ALL He could do for His people. God did not leave a single thing undone and still His people turned from Him.
No true judgment but oppression.
No righteousness but a cry.
God did and does all He could and can for His people.
Free will.
The ability to choose to count on self over God.
Free will.
The ability to believe that by self you can exist and live happily, contentedly, forever.
Free will.
The ability to cut loose from the Creator and strike out on your own.
Free will.
Mankind chose to strike out on their own and as a result all they believe they can do of themselves are lies.
Man cannot save themselves. Mankind cannot live on their own- they die. A life meant to live forever was cut short because mankind with the beguiling of Satan (who had already given himself over to self) chose to live on their own power, their own steam. It's impossible for man to stay alive. From the moment of birth people are on the road to death. No one alive has ever been born, who on their own has lived forever. God's only Son became one of us, a person born to die. On His own He would be dead still. Only God's love does Jesus live. God, because His Son sacrificed Himself to save mankind- because He proved that a human being can live connected to God as intended.
We need to cling to God, He is our only hope. By the grace and mercy of Jesus alone we can do this, we can live connected to God.
It's my prayer that we grasp hold of Jesus, accept the sacrifice He's made for us; that we receive the power of the Holy Spirit sent to us so that we can be connected with God and live as God would have us live fully dependent upon Him for life.
Please Lord, hear our prayer as we cry out to You to send Your Holy Spirit to us, to guide us in Your path, to lead us in the way everlasting, in You now and forever.
Amen.
{5:1} Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill
{5:2} And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
{5:3} And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
{5:4} What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
{5:5} And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; [and] break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down
{5:6} And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
{5:7} For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts [is] the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
Imagine a loving person creating a beautiful vineyard, in a beautiful location. There He is putting up a protective wall around the vineyard to keep it safe. Then as any good gardener He prepares the soil by getting all the rocks out of the ground. Only when the ground is prepared does He plant the best plants He possibly can. With great hopes for His vineyard He builds a wonderful tower in the garden as the plants are growing, He even builds a winepress as He anticipates creating the best wine ever.
Then...as the time approaches to examine the grapes coming forth what does He see!? Wild grapes! He hadn't planted wild grapes, but there they are. His garden, His vineyard are ruined.
The gardener asks all those around who had been watching Him create this wonderful vineyard what He could have done more for the vineyard, didn't He do all He could to make it the most wonderful vineyard ever?
He has no choice, He has to do something with this horrible mess of a vineyard.
So He takes away the protective wall about it, it's a slow process as He lays waste to what was once was supposed to be wonderful.
The Gardener will no longer prune the vines, no longer dig at the soil to loosen it up to keep it so the water can get to the roots. He will no longer pull the weeds, the thorns, the briers. In fact there is no longer reason to water the plants they are wild and can no longer be pure and good.
What's all this mean?
As an analogy it means God lovingly created a people whom He nourished and gave all the advantages He could so that His people would flourish and become wonderful, happy, content, beautiful people. Instead, even after having all the advantages His people turn out to be spiteful, unhappy, bad. God did ALL He could do for His people. God did not leave a single thing undone and still His people turned from Him.
No true judgment but oppression.
No righteousness but a cry.
God did and does all He could and can for His people.
Free will.
The ability to choose to count on self over God.
Free will.
The ability to believe that by self you can exist and live happily, contentedly, forever.
Free will.
The ability to cut loose from the Creator and strike out on your own.
Free will.
Mankind chose to strike out on their own and as a result all they believe they can do of themselves are lies.
Man cannot save themselves. Mankind cannot live on their own- they die. A life meant to live forever was cut short because mankind with the beguiling of Satan (who had already given himself over to self) chose to live on their own power, their own steam. It's impossible for man to stay alive. From the moment of birth people are on the road to death. No one alive has ever been born, who on their own has lived forever. God's only Son became one of us, a person born to die. On His own He would be dead still. Only God's love does Jesus live. God, because His Son sacrificed Himself to save mankind- because He proved that a human being can live connected to God as intended.
We need to cling to God, He is our only hope. By the grace and mercy of Jesus alone we can do this, we can live connected to God.
It's my prayer that we grasp hold of Jesus, accept the sacrifice He's made for us; that we receive the power of the Holy Spirit sent to us so that we can be connected with God and live as God would have us live fully dependent upon Him for life.
Please Lord, hear our prayer as we cry out to You to send Your Holy Spirit to us, to guide us in Your path, to lead us in the way everlasting, in You now and forever.
Amen.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Woe unto them
Isaiah {5:20} Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil;
that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put
bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! {5:21} Woe unto
[them that are] wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their
own sight! {5:22} Woe unto [them that are] mighty to drink
wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: {5:23}
Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the
righteousness of the righteous from him! {5:24} Therefore
as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth
the chaff, [so] their root shall be as rottenness, and their
blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away
the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the
Holy One of Israel. {5:25} Therefore is the anger of the
LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched
forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the
hills did tremble, and their carcases [were] torn in the midst
of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but
his hand [is] stretched out still.
Sound familiar?
Call evil good.
Call good evil.
Darkness light.
Light darkness.
Bitter for sweet.
Sweet for bitter.
Once we begin changing the meaning of something it alters so much.
Once upon a time swearing was a bad thing.
Now it's so common place you can scarcely turn on a tv show or watch a movie without swearing in it.
Already upon reading that how many of you thought- swearing? So. What's the big deal about swearing? They're just words they hurt nothing.
Why do most people teach their children not to swear?
Why do teachers frown upon children who swear?
Employers wouldn't like their employees swearing to their customers, would they?
And yet we've taken the standard of swearing and broken down so many barriers with it that children to do swear, people expect their children to swear- why not they grew up learning it from their parents. People are willing to bend their sensibilities in many ways, changing wrong to make it right.
Swearing is just a small example.
What about pregnancy before marriage? Acceptable. Has is always been so?
Sexual freedom- mulitple partners, sex in any way, shape, or form. Accepted. Has it always been so?
Lying. Accepted. Expected.
People might say that these things are *normal* and have been around since man, and I wouldn't disagree fully.
What hasn't been around since man is the acceptance of them to completely.
What hasn't been around is the mindset that not accepting these things is wrong.
Even now people are called strange, old-fashioned, unenlightened, odd, when they don't readily accept the way things are. Voicing the opinion against those who are supposedly trying to bring freedoms to people is called suppression. Change is herald loudly and those who don't go with the changes become those in the wrong.
Call evil good.
Call good evil.
Darkness light.
Light darkness.
Bitter for sweet.
Sweet for bitter.
Woe unto them.
God has been very clear in His Righteous path for mankind, very clear.
No wonder fewer and fewer people are believing in God, or changing God and His ways until they suit them.
No wonder God can scarcely find a true people on earth.
May God help us. May the blinders be stripped from our eyes so we may see His truth, His ways in their purity and follow them, follow Him, believe in Him and His ways.
May the Holy Spirit guide our understanding so that we don't call evil good, or good evil, that we don't claim darkness for light or light for darkness, so that we may know without doubt that bitter isn't sweet, and sweet isn't bitter.
We need the Lord. We need the guidance of the Holy Spirit. We need the blinders off our eyes so that only the truth in Christ remains.
By the mercy and grace of our Savior Jesus Christ our Lord now and forever.
Amen.
that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put
bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! {5:21} Woe unto
[them that are] wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their
own sight! {5:22} Woe unto [them that are] mighty to drink
wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: {5:23}
Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the
righteousness of the righteous from him! {5:24} Therefore
as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth
the chaff, [so] their root shall be as rottenness, and their
blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away
the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the
Holy One of Israel. {5:25} Therefore is the anger of the
LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched
forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the
hills did tremble, and their carcases [were] torn in the midst
of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but
his hand [is] stretched out still.
Sound familiar?
Call evil good.
Call good evil.
Darkness light.
Light darkness.
Bitter for sweet.
Sweet for bitter.
Once we begin changing the meaning of something it alters so much.
Once upon a time swearing was a bad thing.
Now it's so common place you can scarcely turn on a tv show or watch a movie without swearing in it.
Already upon reading that how many of you thought- swearing? So. What's the big deal about swearing? They're just words they hurt nothing.
Why do most people teach their children not to swear?
Why do teachers frown upon children who swear?
Employers wouldn't like their employees swearing to their customers, would they?
And yet we've taken the standard of swearing and broken down so many barriers with it that children to do swear, people expect their children to swear- why not they grew up learning it from their parents. People are willing to bend their sensibilities in many ways, changing wrong to make it right.
Swearing is just a small example.
What about pregnancy before marriage? Acceptable. Has is always been so?
Sexual freedom- mulitple partners, sex in any way, shape, or form. Accepted. Has it always been so?
Lying. Accepted. Expected.
People might say that these things are *normal* and have been around since man, and I wouldn't disagree fully.
What hasn't been around since man is the acceptance of them to completely.
What hasn't been around is the mindset that not accepting these things is wrong.
Even now people are called strange, old-fashioned, unenlightened, odd, when they don't readily accept the way things are. Voicing the opinion against those who are supposedly trying to bring freedoms to people is called suppression. Change is herald loudly and those who don't go with the changes become those in the wrong.
Call evil good.
Call good evil.
Darkness light.
Light darkness.
Bitter for sweet.
Sweet for bitter.
Woe unto them.
God has been very clear in His Righteous path for mankind, very clear.
No wonder fewer and fewer people are believing in God, or changing God and His ways until they suit them.
No wonder God can scarcely find a true people on earth.
May God help us. May the blinders be stripped from our eyes so we may see His truth, His ways in their purity and follow them, follow Him, believe in Him and His ways.
May the Holy Spirit guide our understanding so that we don't call evil good, or good evil, that we don't claim darkness for light or light for darkness, so that we may know without doubt that bitter isn't sweet, and sweet isn't bitter.
We need the Lord. We need the guidance of the Holy Spirit. We need the blinders off our eyes so that only the truth in Christ remains.
By the mercy and grace of our Savior Jesus Christ our Lord now and forever.
Amen.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Isaiah 3:12-15
Isaiah
{3:12} [As for] my people, children [are] their oppressors,
and women rule over them.
Have we ever lived in a society that disrespects the elderly, or even adults, more? Have we?
Think about it carefully. We've had many, many different kinds of situations in the world where people will say oh it's always been this way, just not so noticeable. But let history speak for itself. Children oppressing those who have rule over them by sheer age and maturity, no, I've personally never heard of it being something pronounced outside of the occasional prominent spoiled rotten brat.
I suppose I've heard often enough from my mother how things weren't just like this in her day. Children didn't dream of talking back to parents and teachers, and if they did they were the rarity and punished severely.
Today the rarity is more the child who doesn't talk back and act out either at home, school, or both.
Today the child who doesn't oppress authority figures is rare.
A large percentage of elderly live in fear and with good reason.
'Children are their oppressors and women rule over them'
Alarm bells sound once more for all the feminists, but before they ring too long or loud we know factually that Biblically there have been many women in prominent positions, women that God has used for His purposes. God is not anti-feminist. God does not want women oppressed. God doesn't want anyone oppressed. In God's eyes love is what matters over all and love isn't domineering it's sharing equally, it's helping unconditionally.
When children and women are ruling over man, when they are domineering an oppressive to man they are stripping him of his God given right to be treated with respect.
Why can I just imagine all the uproar over the years of oppression men and parents have dealt their wives, their children? Because in this sinfilled world men have abused their position, parents have abused their children. The abuse goes on and on and revenge takes over and people shout it's good because the revenge means justice is being served, but it's not justice, revenge is not justice. The abused becoming the abuser is not a good thing contrary to the underdog coming out on top mentality.
Back to the disrespect multiplying throughout our society. It's not something we can overlook as unimportant. It's a symptom of the world's degradation down into sin's evil depths. It's one more sign of the times and we can't ignore them. We can't excuse them. We have to see them and understand that God allows the signs so that we know the times and the times are fast coming to a close.
Isaiah
{3:12} [As for] my people, children [are] their oppressors,
and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead
thee cause [thee] to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
{3:13} The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to
judge the people. {3:14} The LORD will enter into
judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes
thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the
poor [is] in your houses. {3:15} What mean ye [that] ye
beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor?
saith the LORD GOD of hosts.
They which lead thee cause thee to err and destroy the way of thy paths.
The corruption in our society is completey.
We are no longer outraged by scandels involving our leaders whether they're secular or religious. We barely bat an eye at the newest scandel of indecency, corruption, murder. We've become desensitized because of familiarity. Our leaders have led us down a road that glorifies the sinner, the sin, the sinning. People are hungry and thirsting for the next scandel to feast on. We no longer expect our leaders in anything to be truly outstanding and honest, upright and such. We want them to be, but we don't delude ourselves into believing they are so when their evil comes to light we aren't surprised...
...it didn't use to be this way.
This is our world today and it's only getting worse and worse, it will never get better, not really. The only 'better' it will get might be under the guise of even more evil.
May the Lord bless us by the mercy and grace of our Savior. May our eyes be open, our hearts be open, our spirits be revived so that we may see and know the truth in the world, that we may know that Christ is coming and see the signs around us, understanding them as they are revealed to us.
Bless us Lord, have mercy upon us all now and forever!
In Christ.
Amen.
{3:12} [As for] my people, children [are] their oppressors,
and women rule over them.
Have we ever lived in a society that disrespects the elderly, or even adults, more? Have we?
Think about it carefully. We've had many, many different kinds of situations in the world where people will say oh it's always been this way, just not so noticeable. But let history speak for itself. Children oppressing those who have rule over them by sheer age and maturity, no, I've personally never heard of it being something pronounced outside of the occasional prominent spoiled rotten brat.
I suppose I've heard often enough from my mother how things weren't just like this in her day. Children didn't dream of talking back to parents and teachers, and if they did they were the rarity and punished severely.
Today the rarity is more the child who doesn't talk back and act out either at home, school, or both.
Today the child who doesn't oppress authority figures is rare.
A large percentage of elderly live in fear and with good reason.
'Children are their oppressors and women rule over them'
Alarm bells sound once more for all the feminists, but before they ring too long or loud we know factually that Biblically there have been many women in prominent positions, women that God has used for His purposes. God is not anti-feminist. God does not want women oppressed. God doesn't want anyone oppressed. In God's eyes love is what matters over all and love isn't domineering it's sharing equally, it's helping unconditionally.
When children and women are ruling over man, when they are domineering an oppressive to man they are stripping him of his God given right to be treated with respect.
Why can I just imagine all the uproar over the years of oppression men and parents have dealt their wives, their children? Because in this sinfilled world men have abused their position, parents have abused their children. The abuse goes on and on and revenge takes over and people shout it's good because the revenge means justice is being served, but it's not justice, revenge is not justice. The abused becoming the abuser is not a good thing contrary to the underdog coming out on top mentality.
Back to the disrespect multiplying throughout our society. It's not something we can overlook as unimportant. It's a symptom of the world's degradation down into sin's evil depths. It's one more sign of the times and we can't ignore them. We can't excuse them. We have to see them and understand that God allows the signs so that we know the times and the times are fast coming to a close.
Isaiah
{3:12} [As for] my people, children [are] their oppressors,
and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead
thee cause [thee] to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
{3:13} The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to
judge the people. {3:14} The LORD will enter into
judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes
thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the
poor [is] in your houses. {3:15} What mean ye [that] ye
beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor?
saith the LORD GOD of hosts.
They which lead thee cause thee to err and destroy the way of thy paths.
The corruption in our society is completey.
We are no longer outraged by scandels involving our leaders whether they're secular or religious. We barely bat an eye at the newest scandel of indecency, corruption, murder. We've become desensitized because of familiarity. Our leaders have led us down a road that glorifies the sinner, the sin, the sinning. People are hungry and thirsting for the next scandel to feast on. We no longer expect our leaders in anything to be truly outstanding and honest, upright and such. We want them to be, but we don't delude ourselves into believing they are so when their evil comes to light we aren't surprised...
...it didn't use to be this way.
This is our world today and it's only getting worse and worse, it will never get better, not really. The only 'better' it will get might be under the guise of even more evil.
May the Lord bless us by the mercy and grace of our Savior. May our eyes be open, our hearts be open, our spirits be revived so that we may see and know the truth in the world, that we may know that Christ is coming and see the signs around us, understanding them as they are revealed to us.
Bless us Lord, have mercy upon us all now and forever!
In Christ.
Amen.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Isa. 3:9-11 Woe to the Wicked
Isa. {3:9} The shew of their countenance doth witness against
them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide [it] not.
Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto
themselves. {3:10} Say ye to the righteous, that [it shall be]
well [with him:] for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
{3:11} Woe unto the wicked! [it shall be] ill [with him:] for
the reward of his hands shall be given him.
They declare their sin as Sodom...they hide it not.
How true is this for our day.
So many sins are acceptable today that never were before. Sin is no longer called sin.
Adultery, fornication, selfishness, thievery, murder... yes, even murder we make excuses for, we feel less emotion for.
It's common place to hear of murder, rape, lying, stealing...common.
They declare their sin as Sodom they hide it not.
Sin isn't hidden anymore is it? It's glorified in so much we do, so much we enjoy, so much we call entertainment and fun.
We declare our sin as Sodom, we don't hide it.
The result...
'Woe unto their soul! For they have rewarded evil unto themselves.'
We do it to ourselves.
The righteous shall be well they'll eat the fruit of their doings, this is a good thing. The fruit of the righteous can only be good fruit. The fruit of the wicked is deadly.
Woe to the wicked- for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
Woe to the wicked, woe to their soul.
Do you see the big trap we've made for ourselves?
When sin is no longer called sin the complacency we are lulled into is deadly.
Woe to us.
Woe to the wicked.
As Sodom declared its sin and didn't try to hide it our world mimics Sodom.
People raise their voices to shout out their sins and call it progress, call it enlightenment, and freedom when in truth it's all death and destruction and very few will understand or see this because sin is now acceptable and those who don't accept it are the ones in the wrong. Yes, just like Sodom.
Sodom where not even 10 righteous people lived before it was destroyed.
Our generation is the same only it's not one city, it's the world.
May God have mercy on our souls and may our hearts be turned from sin and made clean by the blood of our Lord and Savior before it's too late.
By His grace, by His love, now and forever...
Amen.
them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide [it] not.
Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto
themselves. {3:10} Say ye to the righteous, that [it shall be]
well [with him:] for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
{3:11} Woe unto the wicked! [it shall be] ill [with him:] for
the reward of his hands shall be given him.
They declare their sin as Sodom...they hide it not.
How true is this for our day.
So many sins are acceptable today that never were before. Sin is no longer called sin.
Adultery, fornication, selfishness, thievery, murder... yes, even murder we make excuses for, we feel less emotion for.
It's common place to hear of murder, rape, lying, stealing...common.
They declare their sin as Sodom they hide it not.
Sin isn't hidden anymore is it? It's glorified in so much we do, so much we enjoy, so much we call entertainment and fun.
We declare our sin as Sodom, we don't hide it.
The result...
'Woe unto their soul! For they have rewarded evil unto themselves.'
We do it to ourselves.
The righteous shall be well they'll eat the fruit of their doings, this is a good thing. The fruit of the righteous can only be good fruit. The fruit of the wicked is deadly.
Woe to the wicked- for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
Woe to the wicked, woe to their soul.
Do you see the big trap we've made for ourselves?
When sin is no longer called sin the complacency we are lulled into is deadly.
Woe to us.
Woe to the wicked.
As Sodom declared its sin and didn't try to hide it our world mimics Sodom.
People raise their voices to shout out their sins and call it progress, call it enlightenment, and freedom when in truth it's all death and destruction and very few will understand or see this because sin is now acceptable and those who don't accept it are the ones in the wrong. Yes, just like Sodom.
Sodom where not even 10 righteous people lived before it was destroyed.
Our generation is the same only it's not one city, it's the world.
May God have mercy on our souls and may our hearts be turned from sin and made clean by the blood of our Lord and Savior before it's too late.
By His grace, by His love, now and forever...
Amen.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Cry Mercy!
Isa. {2:5} O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the
light of the LORD.
1 John {1:5} This then is the message which we have heard of
him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is
no darkness at all. {1:6} If we say that we have fellowship
with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
{1:7} But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we
have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus
Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. {1:8} If we say that
we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in
us. {1:9} If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to
forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse us from all
unrighteousness. {1:10} If we say that we have not sinned,
we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
Micah ]{4:5} For all people will walk every one in the name of his
god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God
for ever and ever. {4:6} In that day, saith the LORD, will I
assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven
out, and her that I have afflicted; {4:7} And I will make her
that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong
nation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion
from henceforth, even for ever.
Gal. {5:16} [This] I say
then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the
flesh. {5:17} For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the
Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the
other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
Rev. {21:22} And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God
Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. {21:23} And
the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to
shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb
[is] the light thereof. {21:24} And the nations of them
which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of
the earth do bring their glory and honour into it
Gal {5:24}
And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the
affections and lusts. {5:25} If we live in the Spirit, let us
also walk in the Spirit. {5:26} Let us not be desirous of vain
glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
Walk in the light of the Lord.
Walk in the Spirit.
Walk the name of the Lord.
Walking in the light of the Lord God and the Lamb.
Walk in the Spirit-live in the Spirit.
Romans {12:1} I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies
of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy,
acceptable unto God, [which is] your reasonable service.
{12:2} And be not conformed to this world: but be ye
transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may
prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of
God.
Be not conformed to this world.
Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
Psalms {51:10} Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit
within me.
By the mercy of God.
God have mercy on us all.
Mercy.
Pro. {3:5} Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not
unto thine own understanding. {3:6} In all thy ways
acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths
Have mercy on us oh God, have mercy on us please!
By the grace of Jesus Christ our Lord, we cry for mercy. Show us how to walk in the light of the Lord. Teach us to walk in the Spirit, to live in the Spirit. Renew our minds. Create in us clean hearts! Please Lord, renew our spirits.
We cry mercy...mercy.
light of the LORD.
1 John {1:5} This then is the message which we have heard of
him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is
no darkness at all. {1:6} If we say that we have fellowship
with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
{1:7} But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we
have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus
Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. {1:8} If we say that
we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in
us. {1:9} If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to
forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse us from all
unrighteousness. {1:10} If we say that we have not sinned,
we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
Micah ]{4:5} For all people will walk every one in the name of his
god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God
for ever and ever. {4:6} In that day, saith the LORD, will I
assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven
out, and her that I have afflicted; {4:7} And I will make her
that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong
nation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion
from henceforth, even for ever.
Gal. {5:16} [This] I say
then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the
flesh. {5:17} For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the
Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the
other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
Rev. {21:22} And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God
Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. {21:23} And
the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to
shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb
[is] the light thereof. {21:24} And the nations of them
which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of
the earth do bring their glory and honour into it
Gal {5:24}
And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the
affections and lusts. {5:25} If we live in the Spirit, let us
also walk in the Spirit. {5:26} Let us not be desirous of vain
glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
Walk in the light of the Lord.
Walk in the Spirit.
Walk the name of the Lord.
Walking in the light of the Lord God and the Lamb.
Walk in the Spirit-live in the Spirit.
Romans {12:1} I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies
of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy,
acceptable unto God, [which is] your reasonable service.
{12:2} And be not conformed to this world: but be ye
transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may
prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of
God.
Be not conformed to this world.
Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
Psalms {51:10} Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit
within me.
By the mercy of God.
God have mercy on us all.
Mercy.
Pro. {3:5} Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not
unto thine own understanding. {3:6} In all thy ways
acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths
Have mercy on us oh God, have mercy on us please!
By the grace of Jesus Christ our Lord, we cry for mercy. Show us how to walk in the light of the Lord. Teach us to walk in the Spirit, to live in the Spirit. Renew our minds. Create in us clean hearts! Please Lord, renew our spirits.
We cry mercy...mercy.
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