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"Cause us to hear Your lovingkindness for on You do we lean and in You do we trust. Cause us to know the way wherein we should walk, for we lift up our inner self to You." Psalm 143:8
"Cause us to hear Your lovingkindness for on You do we lean and in You do we trust. Cause us to know the way wherein we should walk, for we lift up our inner self to You." Psalm 143:8
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I really like Matthew 7:11 "If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will yhour Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!"
Acts 10:15 "...'Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.'" A lot of times I doubt that God has cleansed me and that I am justified by Jesus' blood. I really have to learn to trust in God's grace and to see myself as he sees me--his beloved child.
Kinda relates to Psalm 17:15 "And I--in righteousness I will see your face; when I awake, I will be satisfied with seeing your likeness." I'm guessing the psalmist is talking about God's "likeness" in the psalmist. Yes I must learn to have this view of myself.
The part in Matthew about judging others speaks to me. Matthew 7:3 talks about the mote that is in others' eyes and the beam that is in thine own eye. What I got from the biblegateway footnotes is that one's own faults are not necessarily greater than those of others, but that it takes loving others to see others' faults as a speck and true repentance and humility to see one's own faults as a beam. But I guess people (I) have a tendency to see others' faults as beams at times.. I really need to learn to see people with more loving eyes.
Mmm.. Matthew 7:9-11 is nice. I often think of God as this all powerful guy up in heaven who we can't even look at because we're too sinful (which He is). But the crazy thing is that He is also the one who adopted us, and clothes us, and feeds us, and comforts us. He's like our Big Daddy. So yeah.. we don't have to be scared of anything because God's got our back.
I think that's the struggle that Christians lead once they accept God into their hearts, but I've never phrased it in such a way for myself, but once I read it, it makes sense why I feel so anguished at times, Psalms 7:15:"As for me, I will see Your face in righteousness, I shall be satisfied when I awake in your likeness". It's been pretty awesome, for some reason, I've been waking up with bible passages or X-tian songs running through my head which really comfort me. I have to admit, sometimes I feel like I could do ANYTHING here in Paris, that I truly am by myself here, and could traverse anywhere, but the motivation lacks at times, and I do not feel like doing anything. It's because my friends are far apart from each other and we tend to be independent sometimes, so I hold God's Words all the more dearly to my heart in these times.
I noticed no one blogged about the Genesis reading, with Joseph being sold to traders and Tamar. I read this commentary once that highlighted Tamar's bravery, for doing something when those around her has sinned, her father-in-law has not kept his promise and thus she decides to act against that injustice and do something for herself. I suppose, don't let anyone step over you, and act out for yourself in righteousness.
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