He remains, He endures, He outlasts.

Sadly I know many people who get to repititious parts of the bible and skip over it. I do know, however, that there are so many places where in the bible the writers could have added superfluous "How crazy awesome is that?!" lines in a large amount of places. Psalm 136 is one of those places where the writer actually does that. The "His love endures forever" Psalm.

After every section, why not trying to add in your own "God is so awesome!", "How are you so good?", or "Thank you so much Lord!"

Add your superfluous vernacular. And praise Him! Because His unending love and abundant mercy and goodness never stops!

"O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good! O Give thanks to the God of Gods, O give thanks to the Lord of lords, to Him who alone does great wonders, to Him Who by wisdom and understanding made the heavens, to Him Who stretched out the earth upon the waters, to Him Who made the great lights, the sun to rule over the day, the moon and stars to rule by night, to Him Who smote Egypt in their firstborn, and brought out Israel from among them.

To Him who divided the Red Sea into parts, and made Israel to pass through the midst of it, but shook off and overthrew Pharaoh and his host into the Red Sea.

To Him Who led His people through the wilderness, to Him Who smote great kings, and slew famous kings, Sihon king of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan, and gave their land as a heritage even a heritage to Israel his servant.

To Him Who earnestly remembered us in our low estate and imprinted us on His heart, and rescued us from our enemies.

To Him who gives food to all flesh, O give thanks to the God of heaven!"

Our God REIGNS!

Psalm 93

 - The Lord is king! He is robed in majesty.

Indeed, the Lord is robed in majesty and armed with strength.

The world stands firm and cannot be shaken.

 - Your throne, O Lord has stood from time immemorial.

You yourself are from the everlasting past.

 - THe floods have risen up, O Lord.

The floods have roared like thunder,

the floods have lifte dtheir pounding waves.

 - But mightier than the violent raging of the seas,

mightier than the breakers on the shore--

the Lord above is mightier than these!

 - Your royal laws cannot be changed.

Your reign, O Lord, is holy forever and ever.

The Cross..

I want to touch the feet of He,

Whose blood was poured out for me

When darkness was all I could see.

I want to hold the hand of His,

Who was pierced my sin

While I was in the depth of it.

God let us not forget...

The power of cross, the power of the cross,

To make us new, and to draw us near to you.

The power of cross, the power of the cross,

To open up our eyes, to give abundant life.

Embracing accusation

This is all I have for you today.

The praise that God saves us in the midst of our sins.  That while in the midst of our sins, while we are naked and left barren in the streets, he covers us.  The enemy can cast no stone that can break the bonds of our salvation.  Satan cannot harm us more potently than God can heal us.  He cannot attack in overwhelming power of God's defense.  There is no doubt that can deny God's firm stability, reliability, and unchanging nature.  There is nothing undone that God cannot redo and nothing done that God cannot undo.

Watch this video and let it be blessing to your soul.

A friend in need.

Romans gives us a pretty clear picture in terms of what we're supposed to do for other people.

Everything.

We give it our all.  If it is physically possible it says in Romans 12:18, live at peace with everyone.  You should take notice that in that verse it does not say, "If you get a chance to, live at peace with those who are peaceable." Instead, it says "If possible, as far as it depends on you", which for those who don't speak old archaic languages means "If it is in your power to obtain, or in the realm of physically capabilities or possibilities".

Then it continues to humble us further saying "live at peace with everyone".

It's hard for some people to live at peace with others.  It's especially hard when you have the commandments of God telling you not only love them, but that you owe it to them.  In Romans 13:8 Paul says "Owe nothing to anyone-except for your obligation to love one another.  If you love your neighbor, you will fulfill the requirements of God's law."  We take a sharper turn down spiritual alley and we say something even more alien to our society: Not only should we take all efforts possible to love one another, but we owe it to them.  Forget the money we owe, the economy we're in and our mortgages.  Love one another.  Love is your debt.  May we always try to pay it with abundant interest.

Woe is me!

After Isaiah's epic encounter with God, it reveals one thing: things are not as they seem.  After the angelic chorus rings and the entire temple starts shaking, Isaiah's reaction is a worshipful "Woe is me!"  How filthy I am, compared to God.  He realizes he is nothing and everything he knows in this world is a sham compared to the majesty of God.

Isaiah 6:5,7: Then said I, Woe is me!  For I am undone and ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts! And with [a hot coal from off the altar, the angel] touched my mouth and said, Behold, this has touched your lips; your inequity and guilt are taken away, and your sin is completely atoned for and forgiven.

Only after we experience God, TRULY experience his magnificence in a pure way, can we fully realize who we are in relation to Him.  We realize our follies and our mistakes, and immediately realize our necessity for Him.  When we see God, we see who we are.  And when we see who He is, we see exactly who we're not.  But the glorious news is that he is God and able to forgive all who are repentant.  May we search for God, with the fervent expectation that we will see Him, then see exactly how we can be more like Him.