Our equity and the old Sin Man, from Psalm 44.

"All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten three, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant...."  -Psalm 44

In all things, let brotherly love continue, a covenant of peace, justice and equity amongst our peers, our family and anyone we may happen to see; let not our equity fail.

However, if our equity falls, that's the old Sin Man that lives in us, and we can speedily repent of that, speedily rebuke and deny the old Sin Man.

This was the story of Legion, the evil spirit, that he was like the old Sin Man, and Christ had no sooner sent him on his way than he destroyed an entire heard of swine.  This is the self-destructive nature of sin guilt that lies within us, the hopelessness and calculus of hatred and doubt.

"Shalt not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.." -Psalm 44

water that satisfies for the long-term, nourishing the soul.

..every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

-Isaiah 55 KJV

Returning to our earlier bleatings about thirst meaning kind of a spiritual longing, we return to see bread and waters, and the procurement, but here on earth, none of that lasts very long.

Luckily we have an even better consolation in salvation.

Free wine and milk, which are salvation, freely given by the Father.

Eating herein is taken for spiritual nourishment, and the Father, as with the Woman At The Well, is offering something that lasts longer than a simple handful of water or a piece of bread.

It is freely given to those that long for it!

Give to the site if you so choose.

Tozer and the Darkness before the Dawn.

...God will crucify without pity those whom He desires to raise without measure!... -AW Tozer

We forget so easily that in the spiritual life there must be the darkness of the night before there can be the radiance of the dawn. Before the life of resurrection can be known, there must be the death that ends the dominion of self. -AW Tozer

St John of the Cross had "The Dark Night of the Soul", and the Apostle John had the Woman At The Well.

Each reflect a sort of longing or want that comes to a head, and is then extinguished via faith, be it called "thirst" or what have you, the kind of discovery of peace that befuddles the day-to-day grind and hustle of the secular world.

It's a kind of death to self, a kind of worldly death, just like the believer going to the afterlife, is reaching for salvation, hitting a low point of longing and then walking into the light of faith, be it a metaphorical ascent into heaven, or just retrieving water from the well.

As Christ notes, one drinking His water, will never be thirsty again, but will be satisfied; it's spiritual water that nourishes the soul and spirit, providing a calm and peace, a joy that cannot be explained in this world, but only dimly hinted to be a kind of "mystical" calm that comes through faith.

Verse of the day, December 11, 2022

Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.  -Isaiah 7

Readings(KJV recommended):

Psalms 29

Psalms 71

Isaiah 54, 55.

December 8, 2022 Verse of the Day.

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. -John 14

Mind-boggle in the shadow of the Tabernacle.... a psychological reading...

So I was doing some independent study for my home church's weekly Bible study, not to be working from behind, but really digging in to the meat and potatoes of the material on my own, when possible.

The Tabernacle.

I've read Neville Goddard which gives a mindset-oriented or psychological reading of so much of the Bible, and I thought to myself that in classical psychoanalysis, the mind is often portrayed as a structure, usually a singular but complex room, or more commonly an entire house.

Such as the Tabernacle.

We should note a fence, said to be a barrier between the Romans 3:23("..for all have sinned..") sin-lost and the believers, the believers authorized to enter the gate.

We see an ante-room with a light source and a table with the "showbread".

This would be ordinary consciousness, the ordinary running narrative in our head.

Meanwhile, the Inner Chamber, the Holiest of Holies with the Ark inside.  The very interior little core of the mind, in which, the Tabernacle: only one could enter, they tied a rope to him lest he fell dead.

There is the mercy seat on the lid of the Ark, solid gold.  This is basically an interface between so much and the inner little nugget of core, our very center.

Now this whole design was transferred from an actual building in Heaven that Moses was shown.  Consider that, an earthly remnant, a kind of homage, like also that man is made in the image of God.

december 7, 2022 verse of the day.

Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

-John 11