Monday, October 31, 2011

Isaiah 2:10


Copyright Ó 2011 J. Neely
Isaiah 2:10

10 Enter [bow'] into the rock, [tsuwr] and hide [taman] thee in the dust, [`aphar] for [paniym] fear [pachad] of the LORD, [Yahovah] and for the glory [hadar] of his majesty. [ga'own] KJV-Interlinear

10 Enter the rock and hide in the dust From the terror of the Lord and from the splendor of His majesty. NASB

Enter the rock and hide in the dust are descriptive phrases for run and hide.   Hide in the caves, crawl into a hole, get down into the dust and blend with the dust such that you cannot be seem, hidden from view, out of sight from discovery.

And why?

Because of the previous verses.

For the person who has ignored God, doctrine, and his spiritual life as God has defined it. 
For the person who has chosen to pursue the world and its pleasures, its beliefs, its views, its conveniences, its enticements, its compromises.
For the person who has decided to pick and choose which principles they will or will not abide by.
For the person who has no respect for God and truth.
For the person who does not fear God.

Then here is the warning.

Judgment, discipline, corrective action are coming, sure as you are reading these words right now, sure as the sun will come up tomorrow, sure as anything can be sure.

For God has but one answer to any and all rejection of truth, all of which rejection only leads to trouble and suffering and pain for all, sooner or later.

Life in this world is temporary at best.  Life in this world only provides you with a logistical mechanism to get by, while giving you an opportunity to grow up in your spiritual life, thus preparing you for eternity.

This is the devils world, and all who choose to rely on this world only, is in for certain trouble, and trouble will come.

Therefore if you are to respect anything, at least respect Gods wrath as it approaches and overwhelms your life.

But where can you hide?  Nowhere.

Hide in the rocks, or in the dust for what good it will do you.  You cannot hide in your success.  You cannot hide in your titles or credentials.  You cannot hide in your beliefs or attitude.  None of these things, nothing of this world, will be able to deflect or stop Gods assault when it comes. 

And Gods punishment does not have to come with overwhelming power and force.  It can come into your life with a slip in the shower, with an accident on the road, with a choke of a piece of food.  And certainly His wrath can come by means of an invading army made up of man or disease.  God has no shortage of arrows or methods with which to straighten out your life, after you have strayed off the path of truth.

And in each and every case, it will not be God who will be the bad guy, but His righteousness and justice will be magnified as right and true and correct and fair.

Gods glory and majesty are never tarnished.  Only mans glory gets placed in its rightful place, in the dust, from whence it came.

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Sunday, October 30, 2011

Psalm 13:6

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Psalm 13:6

6 I will sing [shiyr] unto the LORD, [Yahovah] because he hath dealt bountifully [gamal] with me. KJV-Interlinear

6 I will sing to the Lord, Because He has dealt bountifully with me. NASB

To sing, is a reference to the strolling minstrel.  You are just walking along in your life or in your own thoughts, singing from within your own soul. 

This is a happy attitude, a comforting mental attitude, a feeling of confidence, inner peace and … well … happiness.

Bountifully, ‘gamal,’ is a reference to the perfect ripeness of a harvest of unlimited abundance.

This is not limited to just tangible things in life, like money or things or possessions. But it refers to the vastness of everything related to your life, the most significant of which is your spiritual status.

If you commit yourself to a daily bible study, that does not mean that life will be all rose petals, but in fact you will face turmoil and trouble just like everyone else, some problems more frightening than others.

But you will develop through your daily study, an inner resource of spiritual muscle and power that is like no other.  You will learn to deal with life.   You will learn to be properly oriented to life, to people, to our self, and especially to God.

You will develop an inner relaxed mental attitude, an inner peace, an inner poise that will help you deal with everything that comes along in your life, be they good things or bad.

The best part probably is when you realize all of the phenomenal blessings that God has provided for you (usually in hind sight), that have contributed to the maintenance of your life.  Things that you generally have taken for granted or have not realized just how much you have been blessed at the time.

And when you finally realize just how helpless and worthless and insignificant you are on this planet earth, a speck of dust on a planet that is insignificant in a vast universe, and that through all of this, God has made available to you an inheritance, a future, a meaning and purpose, that are valuable beyond calculation, then you only begin to realize the magnitude of life and all that exists around you, and how lucky and blessed you really are.

And that is only a scratch on the tip of the tip of the tip of the iceberg the size of this universe and beyond.

Then perhaps within your heart and soul, the music will begin to swell up.

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