Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Come near to God and he will come near to you

James 4:1-17
Battle within you is come from your desires.
No matter what you do you can't have what you want, because you do not ask God, or you ask with wrong motives.
Anyone who choose to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
God oppose the proud but gives grace to the humble. (Prov 3:34)
Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come near to God and he will come near to you.
Sinners wash your hands, double-minded purify your hearts. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
Brothers , do not slender one another. Who are you to judge your neighbor?
Our life is a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes We ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will love and do this."
Anyone, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it ,sins.
Why
James teach Christians many behaviors we have to do. If we has many desires then we battle within us and suffer many struggling. Humble and purify our heart.
Come close to the Lord, then the Lord comes to us.
Aggressive to do the good things is obligation, if don't do it is sin.
The root cause of quarrels and fighting is envy.
Don't assume you have total control of your life: that is in God's hand too.
The Lord look at our heart, so the motives are important when we ask to God.
Because we like something in the world, then we will have double-minded.
How?
Confess our inner sins to the Lord, humble ourselves and purify our heart, do the good thing when we know. No any excuse can say before the Lord. Honor the name of God and we receive peace.


Monday, January 30, 2012

First learn to control their tongues

James 3:1-18
A perfect man: who is never fault in what he says, he is able to keep his whole body in check.
Tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts.
The tongue is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole person, sets the whole course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.
No man can tame the tongue.
With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God's likeness. Out of the same mouth should not come praise and cursing.
Fig tree can not bear olives, grapevine can not bear figs.
Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show it by his good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.
1)Wisdom comes from earthly, where have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.
2)Wisdom comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere.
Why?
Tongue connect to the heart, if a man's heart with evil mind, his mouth will come out with course and make his life worse.  It is contaminated by the earth.
Speak correctly is a wisdom and it comes from heaven, his life is influenced by the Lord.
Those who want to be teachers in the church must first learn to control their tongues.
Pure wisdom comes from God an shows itself in gentleness, peace, mercy. It is very different thing from being worldly-wise.
James offers a sort of counter-order wisdom, in contrast to the conventional wisdom of the wellborn and educated in the Greco-Roman world.
How?
May be I am foolish in these world, but I like to be wise man in present of the Lord, it is more effort to be done in my deed and learning in my life.
Don't curse or say any destructive or negative words to others. This is I need to do. If showing someone the correct way have to say with love.


Sunday, January 29, 2012

A person is justified by what he does and no by faith alone

James 2:14-26
If a man claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save him? No. faith by it self, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.
You believe that there is one God, even the demons believe that- and shudder.
A person is justified by what he does and no by faith alone.
Abraham and Rahab their faith was made complete by what they did.
The body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.
Why?
Our faith needs deed to prove. Faith is not speak on the mouth only. Claim faith is easy, but when something happen we confess real faith to show it by deeds. What we do is more important than what we claimed.
Faith that stops at words is not faith at all. Even demons believe in God, and fear him, but that won't save them from God's judgments.
If what we believe does not affect the way we live, what we do, it is dead.
How?
Dear heavenly Father, please give me the strength to walk out what my faith in you, get rid of the greedy desire in me. Help me do the words of the Lord. May my mind and my deeds may honor your name.


How Greedy I was

How greedy I was, I like to take some petty profit.
Today I did it again after lunch I took away most of the left food. I should asked others, do they like to take some. But I didn't. Since I left the restaurant, my conscience was blaming me whole day. I know this is a sin in me. I have to get rid of it. Because my  narrow desire make me can do bigger things. Dear Lord please forgive me, have mercy on me, save me from these sin, give me strength to conquer this sin. Don't be a greedy man any more.

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Mercy triumphs over judgement

James 2:1-13
As believers in our glorious Lord Jesus, don't show favoritism.
God has chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom he promised those who love him.
Love your neighbor as yourself. But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreaker.
Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom, because judgement without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgement.
Why?
It is a natural human tendency to defer to social superior and despise those below us on the social scale. There is nothing Christian about this. The right thing is to treat everyone with equal respect.
Christ's law is a law of mercy, freeing people from the penalty of sin- something the law of Moses could no do.
Matthew 6:14-15, 18:21-25- Merciful to others then he has mercy from the Lord.
How?
I have much mercy from the Lord so I should forsake my selfish mind but follow the command of the Lord ; love my neighbor as myself. Who are my neighbor- all peoples live around me.


Friday, January 27, 2012

Put faith in practice and show it

James 1:19-27
Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does ot bring about the righteous life.
Grid of all moral filth and the evil and humble accept the word planted in you, which can save you.
Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. If the man who doing it, he will be blessed in what he does.
Anyone does not keep a tight rein on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless.
Religious that God our father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
Christians have control of their tongues and their tempers. They set themselves to discover God's standards and live them out. They put faith in practice- and show it.
Why?
Spoke wrong words need ten time effort to recover it. And it can do right thing in present of the Lord.
Humble our selves and do what the Bible tells us. The foundation of our words is Love, so humble accept the word.
No only listen but also do what it says, most of us does not care what we have done, meditate the word for ourselves, read the word for me not for others.
Religious: Christian means an action of love and show it to needed people.
How?
Don't talk too much but do it, show our faith in practice.


Thursday, January 26, 2012

The crown of life

James 1:9-18
The brother in humble circumstances ought to take pride in his high position. But one who is rich should take pride in his low position. Because he will pass away like a wild flower.
Blessed if the man who perseveres under trials, because when he has stood the test he will received the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him.
When tempted, no one should say, "God is tempting me", but each one is tempted when, by his own evil desire, he us dragged away and enticed.
Don't be deceived, every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadow.
Why?
Rich is temporary in this world, it will pass away, so every one should humble. Rich man in humble, in low position may get more pride. But usually rich man is uneasy stay in low position.
Blessed man id the man who perseveres under trails, because he has the change to received the crown of life.
Temptation is come from our own desire. After desire has conceived, then birth to sin, when it is full-grown, then sin birth to death. Sin came from very little desire.
People can do good thing thing for all of us has sin after we born to this world, unless he has gift from above. The Lord He was, He is and He will be. He is everlasting God.
How?
James gave us a guide to be a Christian. Humble in any situation and do not blame. We are the first fruits of all the created in his words. Don't look down ourselves. I am a prince of the Lord.
To get the crown of life need offer our faith an strength.



Wednesday, January 25, 2012

when you ask, you must believe and not doubt; James1

James 1:1-8
Who:James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters,whenever you face trials of many kinds.
The testing of your faith produces perseveranceLet perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.
when you ask, you must believe and not doubt.
The one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, who should not expect to receive anything from the Lord, and who are unstable in all they do.
Why?
All of us are servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ.
No matter what we face, wonderful things or trials, should be joy for the Lord our God is a living God.
What is the faith, it have to be experienced the trials and difficulties and finish it work.
Testing of faith→perseverance→finish its work→mature and complete
A complete person is not lacking anything, not much desire in material.
Lack wisdom: Ask God, He will give you, it is we really needed.
Pray to the Load without doubt, this is faith, and the Lord will give us, we will receive gifts even better than we asked.
Wave of the sea looks great, after a while then it disappears soon.
How?
My daily pray is not a regulation, it is a communication with the Lord, I need more faith in my prayer to the Lord.
I need wisdom, O Lord, please give me the spirit of wisdom.







Tuesday, January 24, 2012

To others show mercy, mixed with fear; Jude

Jude 1-25

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James, To those who have been called.
For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ.
Though you already know all this, I want to remind you that the Lord at one time delivered his people out of Egypt, but later destroyed those who did not believe.
The sins
1)They have taken the way of Cain;2) they have rushed for profit into Balaam’s error; 3)they have been destroyed in Korah’s rebellion.
4)These people are blemishes at your love feasts.They are clouds without rain, blown along by the wind; autumn trees, without fruit and uprooted—twice dead.
5)These people are grumblers and faultfinders; they follow their own evil desires; they boast about themselves and flatter others for their own advantage.
The apostles said,"In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.
A call to reverence".
Dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit21 keep yourselves in God’s love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.
Be merciful to those who doubt save others by snatching them from the fire; to others show mercy, mixed with fear—hating even the clothing stained by corrupted flesh
Why?
Jude reminded all of being called Christians, don't 
pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality. The judgement will come on the great day. They will die on their desire.
What we have to careful as a Christian and check to others in Church, 1)Cain: worship without reverence,2)Balaam's error: For his profits 3)  Korah’s rebellion: Do not respect the leader or servants in Church. 4)Dead life, without fruits 5)Grumbler and faultfinder 6)Boast themselves.
In the last time there are those scoffers people among us. They are not real follower of Christ, they do for their own advantages. It is very easy to identify, and we have to reminder us, pray in holy spirit, let us don't like them.
Save others with mercy mixed with fear- for if we careless may do the same evil thing as they do.
How?
Building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit. Be merciful to those who doubt; save others from the fire; to others show mercy,mixed with fear.
Fear is do with aware of the Holy Spirit, I can do nothing, all I am doing is the Lord gave me strength and gifts let me to do it.


Love is as strong as death, its jealousy is cruel as the grave


Song of songs 8:1-14
Beloved lead lover to her mother’s house, and let everyone knows that they are lover.
 I charge you,O daughters of Jerusalem, that  yet stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.
Set me as a seal upon his heart. As a seal upon his arm; [Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm]: for love and jealousy are exist same time: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it; if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned-scorned,despised.
What shell we do for our sister in the day when she shall spoken for?
If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver; and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.
Love is as strong as death, its jealousy is cruel as the grave.
Why?
Love is stirred from heart of beloved, it cannot be forced or pretended. So this words are mentioned many times.
Love and jealousy re same strong, when love is there, no anyone can exist among them. The power of love like fire, it is with the power of death. No one can stop it, even sacrifice his life for love.
Love is precious cannot be purchased or exchanged with others.
Respect every young lady to choose her real loved one.  Protect her for she is my sister. Even more precious for she is my daughter.
How?
Love is pure and honesty between each other, our love on earth is same as our love with the Lord, so the Load said He is a jealousy God. Love the Lord with all your heart, all your soul and all your strength. We cannot worship the Lord and the Money.

Sunday, January 22, 2012

True love is precious.

Song of songs 7:1-13
Again the bridegroom marvels at the beauty of his bride, ever more intimate in his description.
He described her body every part and the whole body like palm tree.
He cannot tear his eyes away. Every detail is perfection. His mind and senses leap to the mement of possession.
The bride loves him utterly, without reserve, longing to giver herself to him- in all the glory of the springtime.
I belong to my lover, and his desire is for me.
The mandrakes send out their fragrance, and at our door is every delicacy.
Why?
Mandrakes:a Plant considered from very early days to have aphrodisiac powers.
The bridegroom loves his bride and likes sexual connection. Union of love.
How?
All of these love is gifts from the Lord, He hope man can be fruitful and increase in number.
True love is precious.




Saturday, January 21, 2012

Beautiful, Lovely and Majestic

Song of Songs 6:4-13
My lover are beautiful,  lovely and Majestic.
Turn your eyes away from me; they overwhelm me.
Your temples behind your veil. temples: cheek
My love, my prefect one, is unique, the only daughter of her mother, the favorite of the one who bore her.
Lover went on his work, before he realized it, his desire set him among the rolay chariots of his people.
His lover is so wonderful so don't need to watch dance of Mahanaim or Shulammite.
Why?
v12: set me on the chariots of my willing people
Bridegroom is loving his lover, overwhelmed by her.
Praise his bride as beautiful, lovely and Majestic. Awesome, Terrible as an army with banners. Three characters of a loved woman.
Friends of bridegroom like to watch bride also.
How?
When I am falling in loved one, my heard, my mind will be overwhelmed also.
How beautiful to be a loved one.
Dear Lord you love is so great.


Friday, January 20, 2012

I am my lover's and my lover is mine; Song 5

Song of songs 5:2-6:3
My lover is knocking:"Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one."  I have taken off my robe- must I put it on again? I have washed my feet- must I soil them again?  But her heart pound for him.When she opened for him, he had left. She looked for him but did not find him.
If you find my lover, what will you tell him? tell him I am faint with love.
How is your beloved better than others, most beautiful of women? How is your beloved better than others, that you charge us so?
My lover is radiant and ruddy, outstanding among ten thousand.
Her friends agree look for him with beloved.
My lover has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices.
I am my lover's and my lover is mine.
Why?
The lover loves her, so he went away, don't want to trouble his bride.
Bride heard lover sound her heart was pound, when he left she faint with love.
When lover and beloved can see each other they are faint with love.
They belong to each other and love him/her more than anyone else on the earth. In their eyes their lover is outstanding than anyone else on the world, flawless person.
How?
When I fall in love I have the same mood and mind to love my lover. How beautiful the love between lover and beloved.


Thursday, January 19, 2012

How delight is your love than wine

Song of songs 4:9-5:1
You have stolen my heart, my sister , my bride, with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace.
How delight is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your perfume than any spice!
You are garden locked up, my sister, my bride, your are a spring enclosed, a sealed fountain.
Beloved: Bride:
Awake, north wind, and come, south wind! Blow on my garden, that its fragrance may spread abroad. Let my lover come into his garden and taste its choice fruits.
Lover: I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my spice. I have eaten my honeycomb and my hiney; I have drunk my wine and my milk.
Why?
She has tolen his heart, fired his senses, and he longs to take her for his own.
The bride invites the bridegroom to enjoy his garden- herself.
When bride open her heart to bridegroom, her beauty and her love like a garden, they delight the joy each other
 How?
 Awake, north wind and come south wind! Blow on my garden that its fragrance may spread aboard. A beautiful poem, a beautiful scene of love. True love make us delight.





Wednesday, January 18, 2012

There is no flaw in you.

Song of songs 3:6-4:8
King Solomon prepared himself a carriage and escorted by sixty warriors, which interior lovingly inlaid by the daughters of Jerusalem.
Lover described bride the beauty of her eyes, teeth, lips,neck and two breast. All beautiful you are, my darling, there is no flaw in you.
Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, come with me from Lebanon.
From top of Senir, summit of Hermon- The 3000m/9000ft mountain on the Israel-Lebanon border.
 Why?
It is the nature of sexual love the world with delight. In the bridegroom''s eyes the beauty of the woman he loves is flawless.
The love are collect all of the daughters of Jerusalem. 
In bridegroom's eyes the beauty of bride is beauty and so higher as mountain.
How?
When we fall in love with honest heart follow the words of the Lord, all is beauty and the sexual love are nature and delight. All of these are the creature of the Lord.

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

My lover is mine and I am his

Song of songs 2:8-3:5
Listen! My lover! Look! Here he comes, My lover spoke and said to em,"Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, and come with me.
 Lover: Show me your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.
Beloved: My lover is mine and I am his; he browses among the lilies. Until the day breaks and the shadows flee, turn, my lover, and be like a gazelle on the rugged hills.
All night long on my bed I looked for the one my heart loves.
When I found the one my heart loves I held him and would not let him go till I had brought him to my mother;s house, to the room of the one who conceived me.
Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.
Why?
Lover and beloved are like each other, anticipate to see her/him.
The face and the voice is beautiful and sweet.
Between lovers the heart is belong to each other.
How?
Love is power, fire and strength beyond than anything on the world attract our heart. Do I have those love in my heart?







Monday, January 16, 2012

True love is more precious

Song of songs 1:12-2:7
The beloved like her lover resting between her breast, like a sachet of myrrh, like a cluster of henna blossom.
Lover like her eyes and beauty.
They plan on grass, rest on verdant.
Beloved like her lover as a lily of the valleys, Lover like his girl as a lily among thorns.
Beloved like her lover among the young men as an apple tree among the trees of the forest.
Beloved faint with love. But she want others don't arouse or awaken love until it so desires.
The bride's thoughts dwell on her lover with passionate longing(v3-6) thrilling at his voice(v8,9)
Why?
Between lovers they are a flower or like a sachet of myrrh, always attract each other.
An apple tree is valuable and sweet.
The love is desires can not be forced. the real love is desires from heart.
Red cosmic dye was made from henna. 'Engedi': a beautiful freshwater 'oasis' close to the barren shore of the dead sea.
How?
The love between couples or between we and the Lord is desires. It is not a rule or force to do it. It is inspired from our heart, she or he attracted us to love. True love is more precious than others.









Sunday, January 15, 2012

Your name is like perfume

Song of songs1:1-11

Your name is like perfume poured out.
Your love is more delightful than wine.
We rejoice and delight in you; we will praise your love more than wine.
Beloved is dark , yet lovely, like the tent of Kedar, do not stare at me because I am dark, because I am darkened by the sun. My brothers were angry with me and make me take care of the vineyards.
Lover: I like you, my darling,  to a mare harnessed to one of the chariots of Pharaoh. Your check and neck are beautiful, we will make you earring of gold, studded with silver.
The Song is clearly love poetry. It is a genre known the world over, and the ancient Near East had  its own particular conventions which we find in the Song.
The poems are full of images from countryside. The time, appropriately, is spring. They are full of the passion and delight of human love.
Why?
Kedarites wandered the Sinai desert. their tents were made of black goat hair.
When a man fall in love, his/her name is like perfume attract the lover.
Skin color is not important than the feeling between lovers.
King Solomon bought horses from Egypt so here described the lovers as the horse of Pharaoh.
Earring of gold, studded with silver to the beloved is mean they are very intimate and like to serve each other.
How?
The love between couples need such lovely service and anticipate between each other. Usually we will think it is living together and forsake these small mind to take care for her or him. May my love could be recovered to the beginning.


His faithfulness will be your shield and rampart

Psalm 91:1-16
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. Declare the meaning of content
I will say of the Lord,"He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust." The relationship between the Lord and me.
v3-13 describes many benefit of in the shelter of the Most High, it is safe and peace under any danger situation, and I will see the punishment of the wicked
His faithfulness will be your shield and rampart. - We can't see the Lord, the faithfulness make me comfortable.
For he will command his angles concerning you to guard you in all your ways. You will tread upon the lion and cobra; you will trample the great lion and the serpent.
"Because he loves me."says the Lord, " I will rescue him; protect him, for he acknowledges my name. He will call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him. With long life will I satisfy him and show him my salvation."
In this psalm the voice of confident trust and the voice of God speak encouragement and reassurance. Nothing can touch those God protects.
v 11-12 Satan quotes these verses to tempt Jesus, But Christ had no need to test the truth of God's word.
Why?
The Lord will rescue who acknowledge him, but the Lord permit the trouble and disaster be set around us, by our faith to face these circumstance. Then our faith grow up on the way with God.
These world has not peace, but when I dwell in the shelter of the Most High, I will have peace in my heart.
How to dwell in the shelter of the Most Height is believe him,  listen to His words and follow His commands. The Lord knows who trust in him, our faith is the basic foundation, Jesus Christ had be an example in front of us, and there are many witness in present of us.
How?
Thanks God, I won't worry about my health or my situation now, for the Lord will rescue me, because he loves me, he acknowledge me. He will deliver me and honor me.

Friday, January 13, 2012

Establish the work of our hands for us

Psalm 90:7-17
All our days pass away under your wrath; we finish our years with a moan. The length of our years is seventy years- or eighty, if we have the strength; yet their span is but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
Relent, O Lord! How long will it be? Have compassion on your servant.
May your deeds be show to your servants, your splendor to their children.
May the favor of the Lord our God rest upon us; establish the work of our hands for us- yes, establish the work of our hands.
Why?
Our span of life is short, yet even this must be worked out under God's judgement.
The psalmist appeals to God's pity as he begs for the return of joy and gladness.
Our each day is under the Lord, number our days aright: memory the mercy and the deeds of the Lord, then we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Sweep men away in the sleep of death

Psalm 90:1-6
You have been our dwelling place throughout all generations.
From everlasting to everlasting you are God.
You turn men back to dust, saying," Return to dust, O sons of men."
For a thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by.
You sweep men away in the sleep of death; they are like the new grass of the morning- through in the morning it springs up new, by evening it is dry and withered.
Why?
Compared with the eternal nature of God, we mortals are transient as a blade of grass, our life is short.
Dwelling place:  We are living in the place of the Lord, in His love and mercy.
Life of men are short and passed away very soon, but the Lord is everlasting. How little a man is?
No matter how marvelous success in this world, all of these will be sweep away when we sleep of death.
After a man sleep of death, everything relate to him is passed away, no one remember him.
How?
What we can grasp in our life? Only follow with the eternal one - the Lord.



Wednesday, January 11, 2012

What man can live and not see death

Psalm 89 38-52
A the end of this song, psalmist cried out to the Lord they have suffered and rejected from the Lord.
The angry with his anointed one: renounced the covenant with your servant, put an end to his splendor and cast his throne to the ground, cut short the days of his youth; covered him with a mantle of shame.
Remember how fleeting is my life. For what futility you have created all men! What man can live and not see death, or save himself from the power of the grave?
Remember,  Lord, how your servant has been mocked, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the nations.
Praise be to the Lord forever! Amen and Amen.
The tone change dramatically. God is accused of breaking faith with his king.
Where now are the promises of old? Where are the proofs of former love? How long...?
Why?
Verse 52 is not related to what has gone before.
The God does not breaking the covenant with his servant, but because of their rebellion and turned away from the Lord to other gods, so the angry of the Lord poured upon them. These were the punishment form the Lord.
The Lord keep the throne of Jesus Christ, instead of the throne of Israel on the earth. A few hundred years later, the nation of Israel was rebuilt again.
When a nation or a man leave the Lord there are not any safety and peace in his country or his heart.
How short  a man of his life is on the world, how futility he is? The real value of a man is rely on the Lord and trust in Him.
How?
Pray to the Lord, Remember his mercy and love to his created all men, let them turn from sin and praise the Lord. Trust in Him, He is the Lord.



Tuesday, January 10, 2012

God swore by his holiness

Psalm 89:30-37
The Lord make covenant with David -his line will continue forever, God swore by his holiness.
If his sons forsake the law of God and do not follow statutes of the Lord, the Lord will punish their sin with rod , their iniquity with flogging, but the Lord will not take his love from them, nor will ever betray his faithfulness.
The psalmist sings the story of God's faithful love to Israel; his covenant and promise to David of an everlasting dynasty of kings.
Why?
God is higher than everything, He created the whole world, so he swore by his holiness,
The Lord is faithfulness and full with love, he will punish his sons with rod, but the Lord will let the line of David continue forever. He will establish the kingdom of Jesus forever. The Lord will establish Israel also.
How?
Trust in Him, He is the Lord, my king forever. He never forsake me for his faithfulness.

Monday, January 9, 2012

My father, my God, the Rock my savior.

Psalm 89:19-29
Psalmist remember the promise and the anointment of the Lord on David.
I have found David my servant. My hand will sustain him; surely my arm will strength him. No enemy will subject him to tribute. I will crush his foes before him.
My faithful love will be with him, and through my name his horn will be exalted.
He will call out to me,' You are my father, my God, the Rock my savior.'
I will establish his line forever, his throne as long as the heavens endure.
Why?
Psalmist prayed and though the Lord promised will sustain the king David, so hope the Lord crush their enemies.
The Lord promised be the savior Christ Jesus. His throne will be forever. The Lord will establish Israel but might not as the psalmist thought.
Jesus give us his name that we may pray through him name, then the Lord will listen to our prayer. His name is holy and is with power. Through the name of God our horn will be exalted.
V19 refer to Nathan's message to David, 2 Samuel 7:8-16
How?
The Lord is my father, my God, the Rock my savior, I will follow Him , love Him forever.





Sunday, January 8, 2012

Rejoice in your name all day long

Psalm 89:9-18
Psalmist praised the power of the Lord, for he rule over the surging sea;crushed Rahab like one of the slain.
The heavens are yours, and yours also the earth, you founded the world and all that is in it. You created the north and the south.
Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne;love and faithfulness go before you.
Blessed are those who have learned to acclaim you, who walk i the light of your presence, O Lord.
They rejoice in your name all day long. For you are their glory and strength, and by your favor you exalt our horn, our shield belongs to the Lord, our king to the Holy One of Israel.
Why?
Rejoice with the power and righteousness of the Lord, not for the benefit or deal for something.
Rejoice in your name, for the Lord is the creator of heaven and earth. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of the throne of the Load, so who walk is blameless don't fear or worry about our future, for the Lord's love and mercy conquer the enemy over the earth.
He is the king of kings. Rejoice and praise to the Lord like psalmist.
How?
Do I rejoice with his name? Yes, I will. I have to confess that sometimes I frustrated when I had difficult time or I felt uncomfortable. But I know when I turn to the Lord, every problem will be resolved. He is leading my way. He is my Lord.


Praise the faithfulness of the Lord

Psalm 89:1-8
Praise the faithfulness of the Lord.
Faithfulness
1)Known through all generations.
2)The Lord established in heaven itself.
3)In the assembly of the holy ones
4)It surrounds you, O Lord.
Psalmist will sing of the Lord's great love forever; with my mouth I will make your faithfulness known through all generations. Heavens praise your wonders.
The Lord is almighty, is greatly feared, is more awesome than all who surround him.
Why?
The faithfulness established in heaven, but not on the earth for the earth have more evil among human beings. No one is righteousness on the earth.
The Lord have sworn to David his servant, He will establish your line forever and make our throne firm through all generations- the line of David is Jesus Christ.
All of the words of the Lord are truth and are written in the Bible.
Faithfulness is the basic foundation of all relationship among men and the God.
For the faithfulness and love of the Lord so we have hope and could be his children.
How?
Praise the Lord for his faithfulness, wonder, great love and almighty forever.
I should be a trusted man on the earth.





Friday, January 6, 2012

A cry of despair

Psalm 88:1-18
1.My soul is full of trouble and my life draws near grave. I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I am like a man without strength. Described my situation.
2. You have put me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths. Your wrath lies heavily upon me. You have taken from my close friends  and have made me repulsive to them. It was the Lord who permitted.
3. But I cry to you for help, O Lord; in the morning my prayer come before you why, O Lord, do you reject me and hide your face from me?  I still pray to the Lord with faith.
Psalmist sad for who are cut off from the Lord.
Psalmist cry out, pray to the Lord for help everyday.
A cry of despair. The prayer is the darkest of all the Psalms. Here is a man who feels life ebbing away and has no hope beyond death. There is not one to turn to but God.
Why?
Even no hope to turn but pray to the Lord, the Lord is the only hope for a faithful man. It looks silly but He is a reliable savior.
The Lord may save us from the deepest pit, but it may not, the authority is belong to the Lord. But the mercy and faithfulness of the Lord is forever.
The hope we can't see, but it is always come truth. It needs our experience in life. The Lord save every life by different way.
How?
No matter what happen the Lord is my savior,my God, I haven't strength or no way to go, He has the way. He is the way, the truth and the life.



Thursday, January 5, 2012

All my fountain are in you

Psalm 87:1-7
He has set his foundation on the holy mountain.
The Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwelling of Jacob- Israel.
Glorious things are said of you, O city of God.
Egyptian, Babylon, Philistia and Tyre will say, "This one was born in Zion."  All are includes as citizens.
Zion will be said,"This one and that one were born in her and the Most high himself will establish her."
The Lord will write in the register of the peoples:"This one was born in Zion."
They will sing "All my fountain are in you."
Why?
City of God: Zion: Jerusalem's temple hill. Be the focus and the capital of the nations
This festival psalm looks forward to the glorious future God has planned for his holy city.
The Old Testament sees this triumph largely i material and geographical term, the New  in spiritual.
How?
Everyone of us, his people, will be registered in the holy city- Zion. Rejoice!
Born in Zion- belong to the Lord; He gives us the fountain of life.

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

A compassionate and gracious God

Psalm 86:1-17
David's prayer. Answer to me, hear my prayer, listen to my my cry for mercy. Turn to me and have mercy on me; grant your strength to your servant.
Guard my life, for I am devoted to you. You are my God; save your servant who trust in you.
Your are forgiving and good, O Lord, abundant in love to who call to you.
For you are great and do marvelous deeds; you alone are God.
Teach me your way, O Lord, and I will walk in your truth; Give me a sign of your goodness, that my enemies may see it and b put to shame.
O Lord, you are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger and abounding in love an faithfulness.
Why?
David prayed in trouble. Troubled though he is, he can trust God to help.
David believed that the Lord have abundant love and listen to his prayer. He devoted him live on the Lord.
Teach me your way and give me a sign of your goodness is a good prayer that we should pray to the Lord. Le me walk in hid way - in righteousness.
How?
When I have trouble, the best way is prayed to the Lord, have faithfulness trust in God.

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

His salvation is near those who fear him

Psalm 85:1-13
You forgave the iniquity of your people and covered all their sins.
Will you not revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?
Surely his salvation is near those who fear him, that his glory may dwell in our land.
Faithfulness springs forth from the earth, and righteousness looks down from heaven. The Lord will indeed give what is good, and our land will yield its harvest.
Righteousness goes before him and prepared the way for his steps.
A prayer for the nation.
Why?
Psalmists have experienced the love of the Lord before (in History).
Faithfulness from the earth, from people, then the righteousness is the Lord look down from heaven. No one is righteousness on the earth.
Love and faithfulness meet together; righteousness and peace kiss each other. It means the Lord and his people get along with each other very well.
How?
What we have to do is fear him and prepared the way for his steps. Doing the faithfulness then the Lord's love and righteousness comes upon us. Actually the Lord has showed His love to us.



Monday, January 2, 2012

Walk is blameless.

Psalm 84:1-12
Blessed are 1)those who dwell in your house; 2) those whose strength is in you, who have set their hearts on pilgrimage. 3)the man who thrust in you.
For the Lord is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold from those walk is blameless.
Praise be to the Lord, How lovely is your dwelling place, better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere.
The pilgrim comes to Jerusalem for one of the great annual festivals His heart sings for joy at the prospect of worshipping God in his place.
Why?
Valley of Baca: Possible an actually the pilgrim passes on his way to Jerusalem. But the "thirsty valley" gives the sense.
We don't have like pilgrim went to Jerusalem in this generation, but set out heart on pilgrimage as walk forward to the way of getting award from the heaven.
Blessed man is who dwell in the place of righteous, whose strength is in the Lord and who set his heart in God and has faith in the Lord. Because the Lord does not withhold good thing to those who walk is blameless.
Walk in blameless need more strength from the Lord, he has to bear his cross the follow Christ.
How?
What is our heart thinking and what we are doing make our dwell place belong to the Lord's or to the devil's.
O Lord, bestow favor and honor, strengthen and remind me in your spirit to walk in blameless way.

Sunday, January 1, 2012

You alone are the Most High over all the earth

Psalm 83:1-18
O God, do not keep silent; O God, be not still.
The enemies say:"let us destroy them as a nation, so that Israel’s name is remembered no more.” 
                            “Let us take possession of the pasturelands of God.”
Prayer: "Make them like tumbleweed, my God, like chaff before the wind." "Cover their faces with shame, LORD, so that they will seek your name."
            "May they ever be ashamed and dismayed; may they perish in disgrace."
Let them know that you, whose name is the LORD — that you alone are the Most High over all the earth.
The nation is in grave danger from an alliance of all the old enemies, plus powerful Assyria. The people call on God's aid:remembering past deliverance: "Do to them what you did..." Their victory will show that there is only one god and all the nations are subject to his sovereign rule.
Why?
When enemies are proud, we will think the Lord is quiet and still, so psalmist cried out to the Lord Please do not quiet.
But for us when we pray or after we prayed to the Lord, we should be still, release out burden to the Christ. He presides this world.
The emenies of the Lord want to destroy the nation of Israel and their possession, so as Israelite hope the Lord let them perish in disgrace. There is not any compromise space between them. It is like the Justice and evil could not be presented before the Lord. But the Lord gives chance to the evil one to repent until the coming of that Day.
Finally the prayer hope all people know the Lord is His name- you are the Most High over a the earth.
How?
Acknowledge the Lord is the Most High over all nation, let our behavior could show the witness of God among peoples. Let build house on the Rock. 



Exercise God's right of judgement over others

Psalm 82:1-8
God presides in the great assembly; he gives judgement among the "gods".
How long will you defend the unjust and partiality to the wicked?
They know nothing, they understand nothing. They walk about in darkness; all the foundation of the earth are shaken.
You are "gods"; you are all sons of the Most high. But you will die like mere men; you will fall like every other ruler.
This psalm can be taken as it stands: god takes the gods of the nations to task for their injustice and oppression. This scene recalls Job 1:6. Satan was presented before the Lord.
Psalm can be understood as referring to corruption and injustices in the law-courts: God calling the judges to account. Exercise God's right of judgement over others.
Why?
God presides in great assembly- the final judgement at end of the world.
Man doesn't know the Lord is the almighty. Men are walking in darkness, and doing what they do not know. How pity they are, even they don't know they are gods. People need the gospel to do justice.
John 10:34, Jesus mentioned he is son of God, but the Jews wanted to stone Jesus for blasphemy.  We who believe Jesus is son of the Lord and believe his blood shed on cross is for erase our sin are the sons of God. We are gods. It is noble identity how great we are.
But we all will die as mere men like Jesus, we will transform to another shape with eternal life.
How?
Can I do justice in my living affair? Mercy is needed but do not forsake the justice. Don't afraid the wicked threaten for the Lord is in charge of this world. Aggressively, rescue the weak and needy deliver them from the hand of the wicked.