September 17, 2016

Good day,  美好的一天,  dobrý den,  god dag,  goede dag,  magandang araw,  hyvää päivää,  bonne journée,  Schönen Tag,  καλή μέρα,  Selamat siang,  lá maith,  buona giornata,  良い一日,  좋은 날,  dobry dzień,  dia bom,  o zi buna,  хорошего дня,  dobrý deň,  dober dan,  buen día,  хороший день.....


Blessings on all!!!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-OZbn1MsRc


Today's Bible message is once again from Jeremiah 52 and Lamentations 1....

Jeremiah 52.....

There's no food for the people to eat.....all scattered...
The King of Babylon (Isis/Iraq).....set fire to important buildings....broke down walls...carried into exile...the poorest of people
The temple of the Lord....they also took away....The two pillars...which King Solomon made...also took as prisoners....and three doorkeepers..in charge...had them executed....(speaks of something physical and symbolic over there)
Jehoichin freed from prison....and gave a seat of honor higher with Him....the King......(A bad king of Israel in past who seems was freed from the pit and raised up to high place)


From Lamentations, chapter 1....

Jerusalem in terrible conditions...the shattered city...the destruction....their struggle to understand how GOD could have allowed it
To give them extra prominence...a legitimate part of the drama
Once great among nations...her friends betrayed her...overtaken her...
All gateways are desolate...foes have become masters...
Weakness fled before the pursuers
Remember days of old...when her people fell into enemy hands...
Jerusalem has sinned...did not consider her future...
The Lord....from on high sent fire....by His hands


You will not find His peace in incessant plans for the future.  Trying to control your future is a form of unbelief and taking away something that only He has control over, this is idolatry.  Constantly seeking to plan out the future causes His peace to elude you.  Something unexpected always pops up to ruin or change your plans and if you were so rigid in them you will not be able to adjust.  He did not design our minds to be able to know the future, for that is His domain and figures into what faith and trust in Him is about.  He made us to depend on Him in communion with our lives.  Of course free will He gave so as not to make it a forced thing.  He wants to know all your fears, doubts worries, so share them, even tho He already knows them.  Its like a parent knowing whats wrong but just waiting to be sought out for help.  Make your path one of His peace not of your planning. 
I use the example of wheat and a fencepost.  A fencepost all firm hard rigid strong standing in place ready to take on what comes.   The wheat flexible, simple, going with the flow, seemingly puny next to the fencepost.  yet when a storm comes it bends and flows moving adjusting to what befalls it and the fencepost remains stolid, strong, all planned out in its place.  A disaster comes and the wheat is ripped up carried off going where it is taken.  The fencepost is bent mangled ripped out and twisted mutilated devastated.  The wheat can even be driven right through the steel fencepost.  Which do you choose to be?

Humble yourselves, therefore, under GOD's mighty hand, that He may lift you up in due time.  Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you.....1 Peter 5:6-7

In his heart a man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps....Proverbs 16:9

Commit your way to the Lord, trust in Him, and He shall bring it to pass....Psalm 37:5

GOD BLESS!  PRAISE JESUS CHRIST!  GOD IS AWESOME!