May I ...

02/11/2011

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Teach me.  Show me the path.  Guide me today.
Shine, so I can see where to put my feet.  Lord, I am walking in obedience.  Give me renewed passion & purpose for You. 
May I, like Phinehas, do Your will in this complicated world.
Psalm 106:30-31, Numbers 25

Jesus, You were there in the beginning; fashioning, shaping the world, the generations and me.  Thousands of yeas ago (in human terms:) You were planning, strategizing and creating. 
May I be struck by Your Majesty!

Jesus, if You were there in the beginning, then you were surely there when perfection fell.  You saw the greed & forgetfulness, the shame & nakedness.  You saw the cowering to hide as Your holiness drew near in friendship.  And you clothed them.
May I know Your love.  May I fear Your holiness. May I love like you do.
Genesis 3

And Jesus, You watched the generations trust, then forget over and over again.  You watched with Your Father as the nations chose to not serve You wholly.  You watched Your very own people choose evil over good.  And yet, You came to give another chance.  To redeem.  You gave everything to woo them back.  They didn't even know it was You!  You suffered humiliation.  You took all of our sin... my sin.  You sacrificed it with Your body and died.
May I be full of Your grace & mercy toward others.

Then, Jesus, You rose up; back to life.  Death could not hold Innocence.  You put all my sin to death and came back stronger than ever!  You are my King.  You have killed my debt.  You have given me life without shame.
May I live in it!
May I worship You forever!
May I always remember.

Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.  John 15:13
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Fear not, you worm...

10/25/2009

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There's a verse in Isaiah 41 that has messed with my head for a long time!  You see, in this portion of scripture, God is busy assuring Israel of His help, comfort and deliverance.  He repeatedly encourages them, telling them not to be afraid of the future and that He is holding them.  Then, in verse 14 He comes out with this, "Fear not, you worm Jacob...!"  Why would God say that to them?!

So, I went searching and found the meaning of the word... The original word (Towla) according to Strong's is:  worm, scarlet stuff, crimson.  Now this gets really good, so keep reading...  Listen to what is written as explanation to the above meaning: 
"the worm "coccus ilicis" ++++ When the female of the scarlet worm species was ready to give birth to her young, she would attach her body to the trunk of a tree, fixing herself so firmly and permanently that she would never leave again. The eggs deposited beneath her body were thus protected until the larvae were hatched and able to enter their own life cycle. As the mother died, the crimson fluid stained her body and the surrounding wood. From the dead bodies of such female scarlet worms, the commercial scarlet dyes of antiquity were extracted. What a picture this gives of Christ, dying on the tree, shedding His precious blood that He might "bring many sons unto glory" (Heb. 2:10)  (from page 73, "Biblical Basis for Modern Science", 1985, Baker Book House, by Henry Morris)
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Hesed.

07/14/2009

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"How deep, how wide is the love of God..."  What God loves, He loves always. 

I can read about it (Deuteronomy 7:9; Exodus 34:6; Psalm 136; Psalm 107...), I can see it all around me and I can experience it (in fact, I have). 

Today, I was reading in Hosea and saw the heart of God, His sympathy, His agonizing love toward His people.  This is 'hesed'... never ending, renewing mercy, loyal, covenant love.

May God's hesed bring us to worship Him.  May it compel us to love like He does.

Hosea 11:8
“ How can I give you up, Ephraim?
      How can I hand you over, Israel?
      How can I make you like Admah?
      How can I set you like Zeboiim?
      My heart churns within Me;
      My sympathy is stirred..."

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