Tag: Looking within

Posted on

Psalm 103, the best is yet to come!

Psa 103:1-2, BLESS THE LORD, O MY SOUL; And all that is within me, bless His holy name! BLESS THE LORD, O MY SOUL, AND FORGET NOT ALL HIS BENEFITS:

Most people remember the LORD only when they fall into hard times! LORD HELP! But, when everything is well they tend to forget!

1Th 5:18, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. 

Psa 103:3, WHO FORGIVES ALL YOUR INIQUITIES, Who heals all your DISEASES, 

The first Benefit listed here is by far the most important blessing one can receive! Forgiveness of sins! WHAT GOOD IS IT IF HE HEALS ALL YOUR DISEASES, YET WE END UP IN HELL?

Mar 2:5, When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the PARALYTIC, “SON, YOUR SINS ARE FORGIVEN YOU.” 

The Paralytic needed to be forgiven, but he and the others only saw his need to walk!

Mar 2:10-11, BUT THAT YOU MAY KNOW THAT THE SON OF MAN HAS POWER ON EARTH TO FORGIVE SINS”—He said to the paralytic, “I SAY TO YOU, ARISE, TAKE UP YOUR BED, AND GO TO YOUR HOUSE.”

Does HE heal all our diseases? Well in this world no, because our great grandparents chose to disobey GOD from the very start! But, in a future sense YES, we shall receive new bodies and we shall be like HIM! 1John 3:2

1Cor 15:51, 53, Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, BUT WE SHALL ALL BE CHANGED— … FOR THIS CORRUPTIBLE MUST PUT ON INCORRUPTION, AND THIS MORTAL MUST PUT ON IMMORTALITY.

Psa 103:4, WHO REDEEMS YOUR LIFE FROM DESTRUCTION, WHO CROWNS YOU WITH LOVINGKINDNESS AND TENDER MERCIES,

HE has redeemed us from hell, like a twig being pulled out of the furnace! We all deserve death, yet HE clothes us with HIS tender mercies!

Isa 61:10, I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, My soul shall be joyful in my God; FOR HE HAS CLOTHED ME WITH THE GARMENTS OF SALVATION, HE HAS COVERED ME WITH THE ROBE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, …

The best is yet to come! Stand fast with the LORD for HIS mercies endure forever!

Posted on

Psalm 101, Know yourself!

Psa 101:2, I WILL BEHAVE WISELY IN A PERFECT WAY. OH, WHEN WILL YOU COME TO ME? I WILL WALK WITHIN MY HOUSE WITH A PERFECT HEART. 

King David wanted his reign over Israel to be marked by integrity and godliness (Perfect way)! Not just in public where he is seen but even in the privacy of his own home!

Pro 20:7, The righteous man walks in his integrity; His children are blessed after him. 

David wanted to live righteously before the LORD is order to have fellowship with HIM! How can we have fellowship with the LORD and walk in darkness? It’s impossible! LIGHT CANNOT DWELL WITH DARKNESS!

1John 1:6-7, If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.

Psa 101:3, I WILL SET NOTHING WICKED BEFORE MY EYES; I HATE THE WORK OF THOSE WHO FALL AWAY; IT SHALL NOT CLING TO ME. 

A way to measure a man’s righteousness is not what he does at church or at work where he is clearly seen, but in his private times! What are you watching on TV, what goes through your mind when a beautiful lady is near you?

Job 31:1, “I HAVE MADE A COVENANT WITH MY EYES; WHY THEN SHOULD I LOOK UPON A YOUNG WOMAN? 

Even righteous Job noticed that he had a problem with the lust of the eyes! I KNOW I’M GUILTY, HOW ABOUT YOU?

1Jn 2:16, For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—IS NOT OF THE FATHER BUT IS OF THE WORLD. 

Know it or not, but we all fall short of the glory of GOD! But I’m a Christian, I don’t do these things! APPARENTLY, YOU ARE ALSO A LIAR!

Rom 3:9-10, What then? ARE WE BETTER THAN THEY? Not at all. For we have previously charged both Jews and Greeks THAT THEY ARE ALL UNDER SIN. As it is written: “THERE IS NONE RIGHTEOUS, NO, NOT ONE;

True Christians know that we don’t deserve to be called a child of GOD; our righteousness are but dirty rags! YET, HE MADE A WAY FOR EVEN THE WORSE OF SINNERS TO BE SAVED! THANK YOU, LORD! THANK YOU!

Posted on

Psalm 26, Wise or fool?

Psa 26:1-3, Vindicate me, O LORD, For I have walked in my integrity. I have also trusted in the LORD; I shall not slip. Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; Try my mind and my heart. For Your lovingkindness is before my eyes, And I have walked in Your truth.

David is not saying that he is perfect, but that he has conducted himself in Godly manner; trying to walk in HIS truth; Not just externally, but also in his heart!

2Co 1:12, FOR OUR BOASTING IS THIS: the testimony of our conscience THAT WE CONDUCTED OURSELVES IN THE WORLD IN SIMPLICITY AND GODLY SINCERITY, NOT WITH FLESHLY WISDOM BUT BY THE GRACE OF GOD, AND MORE ABUNDANTLY TOWARD YOU. 

It is a good thing if we examine our ways, what we do, what we say, how we represent CHRIST to others not in the faith! REMEMBER, WE REPRESENT HIM; WE ARE HIS AMBASSADORS!

Gal 6:4, BUT LET EACH ONE EXAMINE HIS OWN WORK, and then he will have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. 

Psa 26:4-5, I have not sat with idolatrous mortals, Nor will I go in with hypocrites. I have hated the assembly of evildoers, And will not sit with the wicked.

WHO DO YOU HANG AROUND WITH? WHO DO YOU CALL FRIENDS?

1Co 15:33, DO NOT BE DECEIVED: “EVIL COMPANY CORRUPTS GOOD HABITS.” 

Psa 26:6-7, I will wash my hands in innocence; So I will go about Your altar, O LORD, That I may proclaim with the voice of thanksgiving, AND TELL OF ALL YOUR WONDROUS WORKS.

This fallen world needs to hear your testimony. How GOD worked in your life; How HE saved you from your sins! YET, IN THE COMPANY OF FOOLS YOU HAVE NO TESTIMONY AND LOST CREDIBILITY!

Pro 13:20, HE WHO WALKS WITH WISE MEN WILL BE WISE, BUT THE COMPANION OF FOOLS WILL BE DESTROYED.

Posted on

Psalm 19, without excuse!

Psa 19:1, …THE HEAVENS DECLARE THE GLORY OF GOD; AND THE FIRMAMENT SHOWS HIS HANDIWORK.

David could clearly see the glory of GOD in the sunsets, the sunrise, in the starry night skies and in the moon and the sun!

Jer 10:12, HE HAS MADE THE EARTH BY HIS POWER, HE HAS ESTABLISHED THE WORLD BY HIS WISDOM, AND HAS STRETCHED OUT THE HEAVENS AT HIS DISCRETION. 

Psa 19:2-3, DAY UNTO DAY UTTERS SPEECH, AND NIGHT UNTO NIGHT REVEALS KNOWLEDGE. THERE IS NO SPEECH NOR LANGUAGE WHERE THEIR VOICE IS NOT HEARD.

My father, before he passed on, came to faith in GOD by just looking up to the sky! IT SPOKE TO HIM THAT THIS IS NO ACCIDENT! HE WAS ABLE TO SEE THE DESIGNER THROUGH HIS DESIGN! HIS CREATION SPEAKS KNOWLEDGE TO THOSE WILLING TO HEAR!

Rom 1:20, For since the creation of the world HIS INVISIBLE ATTRIBUTES ARE CLEARLY SEEN, BEING UNDERSTOOD BY THE THINGS THAT ARE MADE, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are WITHOUT EXCUSE,

Psa 19:7-9, THE LAW OF THE LORD IS PERFECT, converting the soul; THE TESTIMONY OF THE LORD IS SURE, making wise the simple; THE STATUTES OF THE LORD ARE RIGHT, rejoicing the heart; THE COMMANDMENT OF THE LORD IS PURE, enlightening the eyes; THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS CLEAN, enduring forever; THE JUDGMENTS OF THE LORD ARE TRUE AND RIGHTEOUS ALTOGETHER.

YET GREATER THAN HIS CREATION IS HIS WORD WHICH REVEALS TO SINFUL MAN HIS GREATEST NEED, TO BE FORGIVEN! FROM GENESIS TO REVELATION SINFUL MAN IS CLEARLY SEEN

Psa 86:15, BUT YOU, O LORD, ARE A God FULL OF COMPASSION, and GRACIOUS, LONGSUFFERING and ABUNDANT IN MERCY AND TRUTH.

Eph 2:4-5, But God, WHO IS RICH IN MERCY, BECAUSE OF HIS GREAT LOVE WITH WHICH HE LOVED US, EVEN WHEN WE WERE DEAD IN TRESPASSES, MADE US ALIVE TOGETHER WITH CHRIST (by grace you have been saved),

GET TO KNOW YOUR CREATOR, STUDY HIS WORD, SEEK HIS FACE, SEEK HIS TREASURES FOUND IN HIS WORD! HE IS COMING!

Posted on

Psalm 12, the tongue!

Psa 12:1, …HELP, LORD, FOR THE GODLY MAN CEASES! FOR THE FAITHFUL DISAPPEAR FROM AMONG THE SONS OF MEN. 

The men around David started to gossip speaking evil of him! SLOWLY BUT SURELY THESE ONCE FAITHFUL MEN NOW COULDN’T BE TRUSTED! BECAUSE OF THEIR TONGUE!

Psa 12:2, THEY SPEAK IDLY EVERYONE WITH HIS NEIGHBOR; WITH FLATTERING LIPS AND A DOUBLE HEART THEY SPEAK.

Psa 5:9, FOR THERE IS NO FAITHFULNESS IN THEIR MOUTH; THEIR INWARD PART IS DESTRUCTION; THEIR THROAT IS AN OPEN TOMB; THEY FLATTER WITH THEIR TONGUE.  

Even though the tongue is encased by strong bars of teeth, being held in place by the strong jaw, YET IT GETS OUT TO DO HARM! THE TONGUE HAS THE POWER TO DO GOOD OR EVIL; IT’S EITHER CONTROLLED BY GOD OR BY SIN!

Pro 15:4, A WHOLESOME TONGUE IS A TREE OF LIFE, BUT PERVERSENESS IN IT BREAKS THE SPIRIT. 

Col 4:6, LET YOUR SPEECH ALWAYS BE WITH GRACE, SEASONED WITH SALT, that you may know how you ought to answer each one. 

Psa 12:3-4, MAY THE LORD CUT OFF ALL FLATTERING LIPS, AND THE TONGUE THAT SPEAKS PROUD THINGS, Who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail; Our lips are our own; WHO IS LORD OVER US?”

THE LORD WILL ONE DAY CUT OFF THE LYING AND PERVERSE TONGUE WHO SPREADS OUT RUMORS AND GOSSIP! THESE PEOPLE ALL HAVE ONE THING IN COMMON, THEY DO NOT KNOW GOD!

Jer 9:3, “AND LIKE THEIR BOW THEY HAVE BENT THEIR TONGUES FOR LIES. They are not valiant for the truth on the earth. For they proceed from evil to evil, AND THEY DO NOT KNOW ME,” SAYS THE LORD. 

YET IN CONTRAST, THE WORDS OF THE LORD!

Psa 12:6-7, THE WORDS OF THE LORD ARE PURE WORDS, LIKE SILVER TRIED IN A FURNACE OF EARTH, PURIFIED SEVEN TIMES. YOU SHALL KEEP THEM, O LORD, YOU SHALL PRESERVE THEM FROM THIS GENERATION FOREVER.

DO YOU KNOW THE LORD? DO YOU SEEK FOR JUICY GOSSIP FROM ONE TO SPREAD TO OTHERS; OR DO YOU SEEK THE LORDS WORDS? IT’S A CHOICE! CHOOSE WISELY!

Posted on

Psalm 10, THE LORD will not see??

Psa 10:1, WHY DO YOU STAND AFAR OFF, O LORD? WHY DO YOU HIDE IN TIMES OF TROUBLE? 

In good times we can easily say, “THE LORD IS GOOD”, BUT, in times of trouble when we FEEL alone we may say, “GOD WHERE ARE YOU”?

Mat 10:29-31, Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin? And NOT ONE OF THEM FALLS TO THE GROUND APART FROM YOUR FATHER’S WILL. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. DO NOT FEAR THEREFORE; YOU ARE OF MORE VALUE THAN MANY SPARROWS.

WE LIVE BY FAITH NOT BY SIGHT OR FEELINGS! IT MAY SEEM HE IS NOT THERE OR DOESN’T CARE, BUT YOU ARE VALUABLE TO HIM! REMEMBER WHO HE SENT FOR YOU!

Psa 10:3-4, For THE WICKED boasts of his heart’s desire; He blesses the greedy and RENOUNCES THE LORD. The wicked in his proud countenance DOES NOT SEEK GOD; GOD IS IN NONE OF HIS THOUGHTS.

The wicked reject any concept or thought of GOD and doesn’t seek HIM; EVEN THOUGH THE EVIDENCE IS OVERWHELMING!

Rom 1:20, For since the creation of the world HIS INVISIBLE ATTRIBUTES ARE CLEARLY SEEN, Being Understood By The Things That Are Made, even His eternal power and Godhead, SO THAT THEY ARE WITHOUT EXCUSE, 

Psa 10:11, 13, HE HAS SAID IN HIS HEART, “GOD HAS FORGOTTEN; He hides His face; HE WILL NEVER SEE.” …. Why do the wicked renounce God? HE HAS SAID IN HIS HEART, “YOU WILL NOT REQUIRE AN ACCOUNT.”

EACH AND EVERY PERSON WILL ONE DAY GIVE AN ACCOUNT FOR THEIR LIVES! WHY DID YOU REJECT MY SON!

Rom 14:12, SO THEN EACH OF US SHALL GIVE ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF TO GOD.

Ecc 11:9, REJOICE, O YOUNG MAN, in your youth, And let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth; Walk in the ways of your heart, And in the sight of your eyes; BUT KNOW THAT FOR ALL THESE GOD WILL BRING YOU INTO JUDGMENT. 

THE SCARIEST WORDS IN ALL OF SCRIPTURE!

Mat 7:23, And then I will declare to them, ‘I NEVER KNEW YOU; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS!’ 

Posted on

Job 25, Righteous before GOD?

Job 25:1-3, THEN BILDAD the Shuhite answered and said “DOMINION AND FEAR BELONG TO HIM; He makes peace in His high places. IS THERE ANY NUMBER TO HIS ARMIES? Upon whom does His light not rise?

THE GREATNESS OF GOD IS UNDENIABLE, AND HIS ARMIES ARE WITHOUT NUMBER IMPOSSIBLE TO DEFEAT! Bildad is now just repeating what everyone has already agreed to! GOD IS GREAT!

Psa 99:1-3, THE LORD REIGNS; Let the peoples tremble! He dwells between the cherubim; Let the earth be moved! THE LORD IS GREAT in Zion, AND HE IS HIGH ABOVE ALL THE PEOPLES. LET THEM PRAISE YOUR GREAT AND AWESOME NAME—HE IS HOLY.

Job 25:4, HOW THEN CAN MAN BE RIGHTEOUS BEFORE GOD? OR HOW CAN HE BE PURE WHO IS BORN OF A WOMAN? 

Again, Bildad thinks Job is saying that he is righteous and sinless before GOD! Job agrees with this and in fact he has already stated that!

Job 9:1-2, Then Job answered and said: “Truly I know it is so, BUT HOW CAN A MAN BE RIGHTEOUS BEFORE GOD?

THESE, SO CALLED FRIENDS, ARE OUT OF ARGUMENTS, AND IN FACT THIS CHAPTER IS THE LAST OF THEIR WORDS! BUT TO ANSWER JOB AND BILDAD; HOW CAN A MAN BE RIGHTEOUS BEFORE GOD!

1Cor 6:9-11, Do you not know that the unrighteous WILL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD? DO NOT BE DECEIVED. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. AND SUCH WERE SOME OF YOU. BUT YOU WERE WASHED, BUT YOU WERE SANCTIFIED, BUT YOU WERE JUSTIFIED IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS AND BY THE SPIRIT OF OUR GOD.

IT IS ONLY THROUGH JESUS THAT THIS IS POSSIBLE; FOR ALL HAVE FALLEN SHORT OF HIS GLORY! THERE IS NOT ONE THAT DOES GOOD, BUT THROUGH HIS BLOOD WE ARE HEALED, AND THE CHARGES AGAINST US DROPPED!

Rom 8:33, WHO SHALL BRING A CHARGE AGAINST GOD’S ELECT? IT IS GOD WHO JUSTIFIES. 

Posted on

Job 22, Acquaint your with GOD!

Job 22:1-3, Then Eliphaz…answered and said: “CAN A MAN BE PROFITABLE TO GOD, … IS IT ANY PLEASURE TO THE ALMIGHTY THAT YOU ARE RIGHTEOUS? OR IS IT GAIN TO HIM THAT YOU MAKE YOUR WAYS BLAMELESS?

Eliphaz heard Job, but he heard arrogance! Job thought too highly of himself! BUT TO ANSWER ELIPHAZ, YES JOB’S RIGHTEOUSNESS PLEASED THE FATHER AS WE ARE PLEASED WHEN OUR CHILDREN WALK IN THE WAYS OF THE LORD! IT CAN ONLY BRING JOY!

Job 1:8, Then the LORD said… THAT THERE IS NONE LIKE HIM ON THE EARTH, A BLAMELESS AND UPRIGHT MAN, ONE WHO FEARS GOD AND SHUNS EVIL?” 

Pro 29:3, WHOEVER LOVES WISDOM MAKES HIS FATHER REJOICE… 

3Jn 1:4, I HAVE NO GREATER JOY THAN TO HEAR THAT MY CHILDREN WALK IN TRUTH. 

Job 22:5-7, IS NOT YOUR WICKEDNESS GREAT, AND YOUR INIQUITY WITHOUT END? For you have taken pledges from your brother for no reason, And STRIPPED THE NAKED OF THEIR CLOTHING. YOU HAVE NOT GIVEN THE WEARY WATER TO DRINK, AND YOU HAVE WITHHELD BREAD FROM THE HUNGRY.

Eliphaz now starts accusing Job of stealing from the poor, not providing for the needy! I’M JUST AMAZED AT JOB’S PATIENCE, BECAUSE IF IT WERE ME, I WOULD HAVE PUT ON GLOVES REVEALING MY TRUE SELF!

Pro 14:29, HE WHO IS SLOW TO WRATH HAS GREAT UNDERSTANDING, BUT HE WHO IS IMPULSIVE EXALTS FOLLY. 

Job 22:21-22, “NOW ACQUAINT YOURSELF WITH HIM, AND BE AT PEACE; THEREBY GOOD WILL COME TO YOU. RECEIVE, PLEASE, INSTRUCTION FROM HIS MOUTH, AND LAY UP HIS WORDS IN YOUR HEART.

Great advice from Eliphaz, just given to the wrong person! It just doesn’t apply to Job!

WE NEED TO BE ACQUAINTED WITH THE ONLY TRUE AND LIVING GOD WHO HEARS AND KNOWS ALL! HE HASN’T LEFT JOB EVEN THOUGH HE APPEARS DISTANT!

Joh 17:3, AND THIS IS ETERNAL LIFE, THAT THEY MAY KNOW YOU, THE ONLY TRUE GOD, AND JESUS CHRIST WHOM YOU HAVE SENT. 

Posted on

Job 10, Judging ourselves!

Job 10:2, I WILL SAY TO GOD, ‘DO NOT CONDEMN ME; SHOW ME WHY YOU CONTEND WITH ME.

WHY? Why is this happening to me? What have I done to deserve this? THIS IS ALWAYS GOOD TO DO! RATHER THAN BLAMING OTHERS FOR OUR SITUATION, TAKE A LOOK INSIDE AND JUDGE YOURSELF, AND CHANGE THAT WHAT NEEDS TO BE CHANGED! I WOULD RATHER JUDGE MYSELF THAN BE CONDEMNED WITH THE WORLD BY THE LORD!

1Cor 11:31-32, FOR IF WE WOULD JUDGE OURSELVES, WE WOULD NOT BE JUDGED. BUT WHEN WE ARE JUDGED, WE ARE CHASTENED BY THE LORD, THAT WE MAY NOT BE CONDEMNED WITH THE WORLD.

Job 10:3-4, Does it seem good to You that You should oppress, THAT YOU SHOULD DESPISE THE WORK OF YOUR HANDS, And smile on the counsel of the wicked? DO YOU HAVE EYES OF FLESH? OR DO YOU SEE AS MAN SEES?

Again, Job blames GOD, because he doesn’t know that it is satan who is causing all of this!

The eyes of the LORD are not limited like ours!

Pro 15:3, THE EYES OF THE LORD ARE IN EVERY PLACE, KEEPING WATCH ON THE EVIL AND THE GOOD. 

Job 10:20-21, Are not my days few? CEASE! LEAVE ME ALONE, that I may take a little comfort, BEFORE I GO TO THE PLACE FROM WHICH I SHALL NOT RETURN, TO THE LAND OF DARKNESS AND THE SHADOW OF DEATH

Psa 39:13, Remove Your gaze from me, that I may regain strength, Before I go away and am no more.”

King David felt the same thing as Job, please leave me alone that I may die in peace! Complete desperation of Job, wanting to die!  BUT, HIS UNDERSTANDING IS WRONG IN LIGHT OF THE SCRIPTURES! FOR THE BELIEVER, DEATH HAS BEEN ABOLISHED BY THE LORD JESUS! LIFE DOESN’T END WHEN WE DIE HERE ON EARTH! IT’S JUST THE START!

2Ti 1:10, BUT HAS NOW BEEN REVEALED BY THE APPEARING OF OUR SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST, WHO HAS ABOLISHED DEATH AND BROUGHT LIFE AND IMMORTALITY TO LIGHT THROUGH THE GOSPEL,