I get judgmental about how much time of life people give to Facebook and other social media. They look at it a lot. They let the things they see there tell them what the world is like.
We all look to other things to tell us what the world is like. We need to inspect carefully the source of what we are looking at, or what we are listening to.
It is helpful to think: do they want something from you; do they want you to act a certain way; do they want to define certain things for you; do they want your health or your destruction? Do they want to give you something helpful; do they want to take away something from you; do they want you to come with them or do they want you to disappear?
Everything has a reason for being. What is that reason; what is its purpose? Humans have a real reason for being, and they have a reason they imagine for themselves, which may have no relation to the real, actual reason.
“But evil people and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. You, however, continue in the things you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them . . .” (2 Tim 3:13, 14)
Saturday, November 28, 2020
Wednesday, November 25, 2020
REST AND ACTION
Psalm 46
The Psalm alternates between a description of rest and a description of action. The rest (verses 1, 4 - 5, 7, 11) speaks of God as our refuge, a peaceful safe place. The action (verses 2 - 3, 6, 8 - 10) speaks of jostling seas and mountains and of God’s control of them, as he controls the quaking events in our lives.
A refuge is a place to go to get away from an unwelcoming set of events. It is a place to be safe from them. God may be our refuge in two ways: we withdraw inwardly to where God is, or God protects us from the events that are happening around us. Verse four says, "there is a River". Is this the spirit of God? Is this the, "rivers of living water"? Is this the WORD, "the washing of water by the word"? It could possibly be all three.
Verses 4, 5 show that God is in us.
“There is a river whose streams make the city of God happy, the holy dwelling places of the Most High. God is in the midst of her, she will not be moved; God will help her [when morning dawns.”
You are of the city of God.
The Psalm alternates between a description of rest and a description of action. The rest (verses 1, 4 - 5, 7, 11) speaks of God as our refuge, a peaceful safe place. The action (verses 2 - 3, 6, 8 - 10) speaks of jostling seas and mountains and of God’s control of them, as he controls the quaking events in our lives.
A refuge is a place to go to get away from an unwelcoming set of events. It is a place to be safe from them. God may be our refuge in two ways: we withdraw inwardly to where God is, or God protects us from the events that are happening around us. Verse four says, "there is a River". Is this the spirit of God? Is this the, "rivers of living water"? Is this the WORD, "the washing of water by the word"? It could possibly be all three.
Verses 4, 5 show that God is in us.
“There is a river whose streams make the city of God happy, the holy dwelling places of the Most High. God is in the midst of her, she will not be moved; God will help her [when morning dawns.”
You are of the city of God.
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