We meditate on Christ, He is a balm for every wound;
We muse on our Father, With Him there is a peace for every grief
We yield to the influence of the Holy Spirit, Through whom there is a healing ointment for every sore.
He is where we lose our sorrow
He is where we release our cares
He is where we open our heart to His filling
We immerse ourselves in the Godhead’s deepest sea; We’re lost in his immensity; We sink into the soft cushion of His rest,
He refreshes us He invigorates us He is our source of soul comfort He calms the surging billows of sorrow & grief; He commands peace in the winds of trial,
How can we ever wander away from reflective contemplation on the Godhead
This interesting squalor about embedding a computer tracking devise in us or on our devises is an oddly invasive suggestion. It’s creepy. It’s macabre. It’s eerie, spooky & a through violation
Only God has limitless all comprehensive omnipresence
We’re an open book to Him; He knows our every thought. He knows every step we take; We’re never out of His sight. He knows everything we’re going to say before we even say it. He’s behind us He’s in front of us He’s all around us constantly with His reassuring presence, He records everywhere we go & every time we return There’s not a single place where we can go to avoid His Spirit We’re always in His sight
He knows every sickness we have Our Physical ailments Our Mental ailments Our Emotional weaknesses & our spiritual condition are all exposed to Him
And God loves us perfectly & is our source of love, joy, peace & strength
O LORD, my God, God who avenges, shine Your light.
Stand up, Judge of all the earth & give the proud what they deserve.
We’re so tired of seeing the wicked have their fun and wreak their havoc while so many good people suffer at their hands.
They make evil assumptions, They spread their rumors, They tell their lies & never once reflect on their own arrogance & spitefulness.
They enrage us & they crush Your people, LORD, and hamstring the church.
They don’t stop to think that You see & why should they, for it looks for all the world like You intend to let them get away with it all.
Give us patience to wait for You & trust Your justice and Your timing.
You formed the ear & You hear everything. You fashioned the eye & You see all. You discipline whole nations & You are adequate to teach puny haters a lesson.
You know the thoughts of man, LORD. You know that they are futile.
Let us be the person You discipline, O LORD, let us be the person You teach from Your Word; grant us relief from the machinations of petty people & surround us with protection.
We know You will not reject us You will not forsake us You will not let us be ravaged by wolves in sheeps’ clothing.
You Yourself will rise up against the wicked. You yourself will stand against evildoers.
How many times would we have been lost if you, LORD, had not given us help? How many times, when our foot was slipping, did Your loving hand reach out to us & find us and lift us to safety?
When depression drags us down, Your consolation brings joy to our soul.
We entrust to You all those who band together against us all those who condemn us
You are our fortress, You are our rock You shelter us from harm. We trust You to save us & our loved ones from all who seek our destruction, in Jesus’ name
Their throats are gaping graves, their tongues slick as mudslides.
Every word they speak is tinged with poison.
They open their mouths & pollute the air.
They race for the honor of sinner-of-the-year,
They litter the land with heartbreak & ruin,
They Don’t know the first thing about living with others.
They never give God the time of day.
Rom. 3:13-15 the message
Theirs corruption of so much in our human speech!
None of us are innocent
The offensive stench exhaling from an open sepulcher is due not to the grave itself but to the rottenness within.
Just so, the unclean, unkind, untrue utterances of others betrays
a defiled head a despiteful tongue a deceitful heart.
Some speech is characterized by the venom of the serpent
“with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: whose mouth is full of cursing & bitterness”
Newell points out that
“the fangs of a deadly serpent lie, ordinarily, folded back in its upper jaw; but when it throws up its head to strike, those hollow fangs drop down & when the serpent bites, the fangs press a sack of deadly poison hidden ‘under its lips’ at the root,
They gash us open with their fangs
Then they inject the venom into the wound.
We are born with moral poison sacks like this.
We strike at one another with venomous words.
Foul speech is not only an offense against others, it is an offense against God.
The Lord Jesus warns that
“every idle word that we speak, We give account thereof in the day of judgment”
Matt. 12:36
John Phillips notes
The average articulate person uses thousands of words a day.
These daily words would comprise a fair sized volume & enough volumes in a lifetime to fill a college library.
Each of these volumes represents the thoughts of the speaker in their own words & every word is open to the inspection & judgment of God.
Not one of the words can be recalled nor one of the volumes withdrawn.
So our words form an important indictment of each one of us.
Every day we should look over the words we’ve scattered.
My wife is such an example of choosing an economy of words. She just edited two briefs of writs going to the Supreme Court.
Becoming a student of what the court wants to hear
Then arranging each sentence & supporting arguments to logically & legally persuade a Judge is an amazing skill set
Designing appropriate terms & admirable phraseology is an art form all it’s own.
It’s so easy swelteringly bungle ahead with a cluster of reactive rankle with no lid
Let the words of our mouth & the meditations of our be acceptable O Lord
It’s difficult to explain it but I’m not exaggerating.
It’s an uncomfortable phenomenon,
Our breath is vitally important.
Having your breath knocked out of You, or struggling to breathe can be a major scary.
God started our life by giving us breath.
And the Lord God formed us of the dust of the ground, and breathed into our nostrils the breath of life; and we became a living soul.
Genesis 2:7
That’s super intimate.
Having our designer & creator make our nose & then put His mouth over it & blow life giving breath into us
This is super & extremely intimate & warmly personal.
This is face-to-face intimacy like a kiss.
Its an act of giving, as well as making.
The more we think about breath we realize it’s Our self-giving giving God, who with every breath gives us Himself.
With omniscient genius God takes dust & dirt, those odds & ends of things & formed & fashioned us.
The human body, so marvelous & intricate, is an eloquent testimony to God’s wisdom & power.
I like to try my hand at creativity. I go out into the yard & pick up some dirt & put a seed in & a colorful blooming life rises from the dust.
But breathing into the nostrils of dust is a phenomenal image.
Hannah, wanted a baby. She prayed, praising God for hearing her request for a son, then she worshipped the Lord saying
“He raises the poor from the dust & lifts the needy from the ash heap”
1 Sam. 2:8; Ps. 113:7
Lord, we’re poor dust. Please Jesus, lift us up from our staggering face in the dust ask heap
Job said The Spirit of God has made me, And the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
Job 33:4
For as long as life is in me, And the breath of God is in my nostrils
Job 27:3
We beg for more breath & Your life blooming in us
Isaiah wrote Thus says God the LORD, Who created the heavens & stretched them out, Who spread out the earth & its offspring, Who gives breath to the people on it & spirit to those who walk in it
Isaiah 42:5
Breath Your Spirits fullness in us
In the book of Acts it’s explained.
We need God’s breath every moment.
God doesn’t need us. He isn’t served by human hands, as though He needed anything, But, He Himself gives to all people life & breath & all things
Acts 17:25
We need the Lord to speak to our dry creaking bones & say
I will cause breath to enter you that you may come to life. ‘I will put sinews on you, make flesh grow back on you, I cover you with skin & put breath in you that you may come alive & you will know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 37:5-6
If God doesn’t constantly breath on us Job writes.
God takes our breath away.
If He should determine to do so, If He should gather to Himself His spirit & His breath, All flesh would perish together, And man would return to dust.
Job 34:14-15
I read somewhere that I’m just fifty-eight pounds of oxygen fifty quarts of water, two ounces of salt, three pounds of calcium, twenty-four pounds of carbon some chlorine, some phosphorous, some fat, some iron, some sulphur, some glycerine.
I’m just dust and some water.
Our life is in God breathing into us
A mere piece of skin the size of a postage stamp requires three million cells; a yard of blood vessels, four yards of nerves; one hundred sweat glands, fifteen oil glands, and twenty-five nerve endings!
For our spirit can grow faint in us, And our breath
Isaiah 57:16
Lord, please breath on us and fill us with Your Spirit.
In the Song of Solomon we hear our deep longings echoing
Kiss me— full on the mouth!
Yes! For your love is better than anything imaginable,
Your love is headier than your aromatic oils.
The syllables of Your name murmur like a meadow brook.
No wonder everyone loves to say your name!
Take me away with you!
Let’s run off together! We need deep kisses An elopement with my King-Lover! We’ll celebrate, we’ll sing, we’ll make great music. Yes!
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