Meditation: Joan Boney
Psa. 4:5 ... Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD.
This is the work of God ... that you believe.
Job. 13:15 ... Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him:
We, as humans, want to know "WHY" things happened, especially to us. We, who are of God, learn to trust HIM. God allowed Jesus to die on a cross. God allowed Herod to kill John the Baptist. Sometimes God spares us from the earthly problem. Other times we are given grace to go through the problem and endure. The important thing is to continue in the faith, believing as did Abraham that even if God had him kill his own son, God would raise him from the dead. And this was a type and shadow of Jesus who was slain by the will of God and then raised from the dead. We, who belong to God, though we be slain know God will raise us from dead as HE raised Jesus from dead.
Psa. 69:34 ... Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.
Sun ... moon ... stars ... staying where God put them ... continuing to do what God told them to do. God set a boundary for the sea that it could only come up so far on the beach. And that is what the sea does, obeying God, doing what God said to do. These are examples for us. We praise God when we do what HE says to do and when we continue in that Word, doing it.
Psa. 71:24 ... My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long:
Many people talk of the "righteousness", good, they do ... and they speak of the "righteousness" done by others, praising men.
We talk of the righteousness of God.
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