The Lord thinketh on me
I know what you mean. It would be nice to be able to jump off the Earth and land on the far side of the Moon. But the shallow love of man should send us in search of a deeper love—God’s infinite love. But He must be the one to reveal that love. And He will as we continue to seek it. We are so hard-hearted that it’s hard for Him to get through to us. But He will get through. “And therefore will the Lord wait, that He may be gracious unto you, and therefore will He be exalted, that He may have mercy upon you: for the Lord is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for Him.” (Is. 30:18).
More and more, I see that the real problems in this world are due to not knowing the depth of love and grace God has for His ailing planet. The Islamic terrorists who kill for God are a good example. The Jesuits in charge of the Inquisition are another. The protesters on the Mall who are throwing shoes at President Bush with signs that say, “Arrest him” are another.
Our bitterness in this life is due to being cut off from God and His love. If we try to operate a moral life without Him, it will be shallow at the least, and murderous at the most. Who can initiate love? Who can manufacture it? We must be loved before we can love. We must have been nurtured in order to be able to nurture. Yet, because the vast majority is separated from God, they must produce their own fruit. And it’s a life of hard work, or dismal failure.
We don’t know what its like to have love flow through us. Like Jesus giving bread to His disciples and them to the people (Jn. 6:11), we can and must take from Him in order to give away. His love can flow through us, and it must. People are suffering on every side, physically as well as emotionally, because they are not getting loved. Our psych wards are full of people who didn’t get loved until it crushed them mentally. They snapped and got rushed off to a place that could keep them sedated forever. I believe that many of them would still respond to love and pull out of their conditions, whatever they’re called. Those conditions are all basic devil-control because the devils come in when God is not present, because His love is not cognizant.
I’m sorry about your mother, but she doesn’t realize what she is lacking. She is probably totally unaware of the science of salvation. Our nation, the one Protestant nation in the world, has lost its light from the Reformation days, and is in great darkness. And our nation is seeing the results of that loss every day, more so with each passing generation.
As I panned through the photos in the news portion of Yahoo mail this morning, I got a sense of new defiance toward powerful religion. James Taylor sang or will sing, an icon of a better America from the hippy past. A forgetting of the Bible and Bible spirituality and obedience is about to take a bigger step than we saw during the president Clinton days. This can only result in a reaction by the powerful religio-political sector of our country. But either atheistic secular or religious, both are operating apart from God and His love. Neither will ever find it, as they both vie for supremacy. And their in-fighting will only take them farther and farther away from the search for God’s love.
Only those who find in all the fighting such a vacancy that they have to come out of it and look for love, will finally make it out of Babylon. Love will be God’s greatest drawing force before He comes. You already feel that lack. So do I. Let’s not give up the search until we get all the way to Him and have no doubt of His acceptance and joy over us.
I spent yesterday working in the house I’ve been remodeling. They had their nephew over, who is slightly retarded. He was talking loudly all day long—non-stop! :) But I couldn’t help but love him for it. He was being boastful and sometimes braggadocio, self wasn’t hidden in Christ, he wasn’t sanctified. Yet, I felt like he was being honest and genuine and happy. As I thought on it, it seemed like this is what God is like to His creation. They aren’t nor will they ever be as holy and sanctified as He. Yet He joys to have them part of His huge family. His whole family in heaven and earth are dysfunctional compared to Him. Like Paul said, “If Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory;but not before God.” (Rom. 4:2). “The heavens are not clean in His sight.” (Job 15:15). But I’m glad for what David said. “I am poor and needy;yet the Lord thinketh upon me:Thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.” (Ps. 40:17).
Does the Lord think upon David only or for us too? For us too, maybe even more so. “Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written:” (1Cor. 9:10). EGW said we must appropriate the word of God for ourselves. This is why those men wrote what they did. “Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever.” (Is. 30:8). Whatever is written in scripture is for us and our children forever.
And God’s thoughts toward us are no lukewarm, half-hearted thinking upon us, like sinners do to each other. When He says, “I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end,” (Jer. 29:11) He really knows them! He means it with all His heart, all His love is focused on us. It’s like the microwaves that focused on the spoon I accidentally left in my bowl once. Those microwaves were so concentrated and focused that they boiled the glass turntable at the spot where the spoon made contact with it.
When He writes that He loves us with an everlasting love (Jer. 31:3), His Spirit applies that to the needy soul reading that promise, even if its thousands of needy souls reading it simultaneously, sprinkled around the globe. He had it written down and disseminated throughout the world in order to speak to the whole world, for He so loves the whole world (Jn. 3:16). His love is big enough to accept every last sinner, work with them in their sinfulness, and win their hearts back, perfectly cleansed from sin. But the love response can never be forced. The limitation to salvation by love is in that the majority isn’t interested. Satan has ruined them. In many, many cases, Satan has defeated God. And the great Father suffers for His lost children; infinitely does He sorrow.
Let’s not be the reason He has to suffer more. Let’s ask Him to open our hearts and to leave behind our self-protectiveness and self-defenses, and yield ourselves totally to Him, His law and His grace.
Love you sister,
David
More and more, I see that the real problems in this world are due to not knowing the depth of love and grace God has for His ailing planet. The Islamic terrorists who kill for God are a good example. The Jesuits in charge of the Inquisition are another. The protesters on the Mall who are throwing shoes at President Bush with signs that say, “Arrest him” are another.
Our bitterness in this life is due to being cut off from God and His love. If we try to operate a moral life without Him, it will be shallow at the least, and murderous at the most. Who can initiate love? Who can manufacture it? We must be loved before we can love. We must have been nurtured in order to be able to nurture. Yet, because the vast majority is separated from God, they must produce their own fruit. And it’s a life of hard work, or dismal failure.
We don’t know what its like to have love flow through us. Like Jesus giving bread to His disciples and them to the people (Jn. 6:11), we can and must take from Him in order to give away. His love can flow through us, and it must. People are suffering on every side, physically as well as emotionally, because they are not getting loved. Our psych wards are full of people who didn’t get loved until it crushed them mentally. They snapped and got rushed off to a place that could keep them sedated forever. I believe that many of them would still respond to love and pull out of their conditions, whatever they’re called. Those conditions are all basic devil-control because the devils come in when God is not present, because His love is not cognizant.
I’m sorry about your mother, but she doesn’t realize what she is lacking. She is probably totally unaware of the science of salvation. Our nation, the one Protestant nation in the world, has lost its light from the Reformation days, and is in great darkness. And our nation is seeing the results of that loss every day, more so with each passing generation.
As I panned through the photos in the news portion of Yahoo mail this morning, I got a sense of new defiance toward powerful religion. James Taylor sang or will sing, an icon of a better America from the hippy past. A forgetting of the Bible and Bible spirituality and obedience is about to take a bigger step than we saw during the president Clinton days. This can only result in a reaction by the powerful religio-political sector of our country. But either atheistic secular or religious, both are operating apart from God and His love. Neither will ever find it, as they both vie for supremacy. And their in-fighting will only take them farther and farther away from the search for God’s love.
Only those who find in all the fighting such a vacancy that they have to come out of it and look for love, will finally make it out of Babylon. Love will be God’s greatest drawing force before He comes. You already feel that lack. So do I. Let’s not give up the search until we get all the way to Him and have no doubt of His acceptance and joy over us.
I spent yesterday working in the house I’ve been remodeling. They had their nephew over, who is slightly retarded. He was talking loudly all day long—non-stop! :) But I couldn’t help but love him for it. He was being boastful and sometimes braggadocio, self wasn’t hidden in Christ, he wasn’t sanctified. Yet, I felt like he was being honest and genuine and happy. As I thought on it, it seemed like this is what God is like to His creation. They aren’t nor will they ever be as holy and sanctified as He. Yet He joys to have them part of His huge family. His whole family in heaven and earth are dysfunctional compared to Him. Like Paul said, “If Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory;but not before God.” (Rom. 4:2). “The heavens are not clean in His sight.” (Job 15:15). But I’m glad for what David said. “I am poor and needy;yet the Lord thinketh upon me:Thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.” (Ps. 40:17).
Does the Lord think upon David only or for us too? For us too, maybe even more so. “Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written:” (1Cor. 9:10). EGW said we must appropriate the word of God for ourselves. This is why those men wrote what they did. “Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever.” (Is. 30:8). Whatever is written in scripture is for us and our children forever.
And God’s thoughts toward us are no lukewarm, half-hearted thinking upon us, like sinners do to each other. When He says, “I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end,” (Jer. 29:11) He really knows them! He means it with all His heart, all His love is focused on us. It’s like the microwaves that focused on the spoon I accidentally left in my bowl once. Those microwaves were so concentrated and focused that they boiled the glass turntable at the spot where the spoon made contact with it.
When He writes that He loves us with an everlasting love (Jer. 31:3), His Spirit applies that to the needy soul reading that promise, even if its thousands of needy souls reading it simultaneously, sprinkled around the globe. He had it written down and disseminated throughout the world in order to speak to the whole world, for He so loves the whole world (Jn. 3:16). His love is big enough to accept every last sinner, work with them in their sinfulness, and win their hearts back, perfectly cleansed from sin. But the love response can never be forced. The limitation to salvation by love is in that the majority isn’t interested. Satan has ruined them. In many, many cases, Satan has defeated God. And the great Father suffers for His lost children; infinitely does He sorrow.
Let’s not be the reason He has to suffer more. Let’s ask Him to open our hearts and to leave behind our self-protectiveness and self-defenses, and yield ourselves totally to Him, His law and His grace.
Love you sister,
David
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