Returning to Psalm 111 and Daniel 9
Last Tuesday was post-less because Garry and I were serving as poll workers for the primary election here in CA, which took all my energy.
Since then I have returned in my study to Psalm 111 and to Daniel 9.
Psalm 111:5-8 reads: "He provides food for those who fear him; he remembers his covenant forever. He has shown his people the power of his works, in giving them the inheritance of the nations. The works of his hands are faithful and just; all his precepts are trustworthy; they are establised forever and ever, to be performed with faithfulness and uprightness."
Look at Daniel 9:8-16 and you well read a lament for all the disobedience of the kings, princes, fathers, all Israel, which has brought not blessing but cursing as God promised.
Take Daniel 9:12-14 as a sampling: "He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us and against our rulers who ruled us, by bringing upon us a great calamity. For under the whole heaven there has not been done anything like what has been done against Jerusalem. As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us; yet we have not entreated the favor of the LORD our God, turning from our iniquities and gaining insight by your truth. Therefore the LORD has kept ready the calamity and has brought it ipon is, for the LORD our God is righteous in all the works that he has done, and we have not obeyed his voice"
How often does our disobedience not only cause us to experience calamity but also to miss blessing? One experession from 9:13 particularly struck me: yet we have not entreated the favor of the LORD our God, turning from our iniquities and gaining insight by your truth.
Both are necessary; if we don't turn from our iniquities, we won't be able to gain insight from his truth.
Last Tuesday was post-less because Garry and I were serving as poll workers for the primary election here in CA, which took all my energy.
Since then I have returned in my study to Psalm 111 and to Daniel 9.
Psalm 111:5-8 reads: "He provides food for those who fear him; he remembers his covenant forever. He has shown his people the power of his works, in giving them the inheritance of the nations. The works of his hands are faithful and just; all his precepts are trustworthy; they are establised forever and ever, to be performed with faithfulness and uprightness."
Look at Daniel 9:8-16 and you well read a lament for all the disobedience of the kings, princes, fathers, all Israel, which has brought not blessing but cursing as God promised.
Take Daniel 9:12-14 as a sampling: "He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us and against our rulers who ruled us, by bringing upon us a great calamity. For under the whole heaven there has not been done anything like what has been done against Jerusalem. As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us; yet we have not entreated the favor of the LORD our God, turning from our iniquities and gaining insight by your truth. Therefore the LORD has kept ready the calamity and has brought it ipon is, for the LORD our God is righteous in all the works that he has done, and we have not obeyed his voice"
How often does our disobedience not only cause us to experience calamity but also to miss blessing? One experession from 9:13 particularly struck me: yet we have not entreated the favor of the LORD our God, turning from our iniquities and gaining insight by your truth.
Both are necessary; if we don't turn from our iniquities, we won't be able to gain insight from his truth.
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