Deuteronomy 28 memes.

So I came across this in Daily Devotional readings.  Deuteronomy 28.

And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:

And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.

"Y sucederá que si escuchas diligentemente la voz de Jehovah tu Dios, procurando poner por obra todos sus mandamientos que yo te mando hoy, también Jehovah tu Dios te enaltecerá sobre todas las naciones de la tierra.

Cuando obedezcas la voz de Jehovah tu Dios, vendrán sobre ti todas estas bendiciones, y te alcanzarán:"

"Bendito serás en la ciudad, y bendito en el campo."

And I made some memes of it, and some other.

Post-Thanksgiving 2023

Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.

Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.

For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.
 

Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.
 

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
 

-Psalm 139

 

Tú conoces cuando me siento y cuando me levanto; desde lejos entiendes mi pensamiento.

Mi caminar y mi acostarme has considerado; todos mis caminos te son conocidos.

Pues aún no está la palabra en mi lengua, y tú, oh Jehovah, ya la sabes toda.
 

Detrás y delante me rodeas y sobre mí pones tu mano.

Tal conocimiento me es maravilloso; tan alto que no lo puedo alcanzar.
 

Watching stories of God's intervention, and it puts me in wonder.  The sick, the infirm, infants, and the elderly, healed by God's mighty hand, delivered from the slings and arrows of Satan.

God has a plan, and our lives fit into that plan, in some way.  Let us, in our daily walks, do Him honor, and give Him praise.

This, after Thanksgiving and the Psalm 100 and 103 quotations floating around everywhere--we survived, and gave praise.  Abundant food, and good times with family, here.  All in all, a great weekend, though we were reminded that some had less, and were in more dire circumstances, and us, such as it was, lacking somewhat in resources, could but pray for them and show them love.

thou art fair. Love is Kind.

"My love thou art fair." -Solomon

Flash forward to today, and we feel a kind of awe at a potential mate, awe and lust, and we might be propelled forward into acting on that impulse.

We were seeing so many stories of infidelity, seeing relationships at an ending point, and I was disheartened.  

"Love is sacrificial; love is kind."

There was a perfectly acceptable woman, cheated on by her husband.  He said he had his reasons, but did he?  Was she not giving him time?

Could he not accept that?

The truth of the matter is that there is one person out there, a significant other for you, for whom you would gladly make sacrifices in a spirit of love and giving.

When you find that person, nothing can tear you two crazy kids apart.

 

El perdon de Jehovah!

If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?

But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared(respected; venerate).

(we are already forgiven, friends, dead to sin, freedom not to sin, but freedom from sin--when we grasp the nature of this truth which Paul puts in the "mystery" of the Gospel, our hearts become so much lighter!)

I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.

And of course, as a Southern Baptist, "just an old sinner saved by grace", the Lord had mercy on me!

Psalm 130 was in one of the One Year devotionals this morning, btw.  I assume tomorrow morning is Psalm 131, along with a reading in Proverbs 28.  If anyone wants to jump in, then have at it, my friends.

Oh Jehovah, si tienes presente los pecados, ¿quién podrá, oh Señor, mantenerse en pie?

Pero en ti hay perdón, para que seas reverenciado.

 

Yo espero en Jehovah; mi alma espera. En su palabra he puesto mi esperanza.

El perdon de Jehovah!

The God of Hope(KJV verse shuffle-up)

If only it were worded this way.  But here are three King James Version verses stringed together from different books.

"Now the God hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us.

And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may bound to every good work."

This was:

Romans 15:13

Ephesians 3:20

2 Corinthians 9:8

Shuffling the verses often makes a great message, but may or may not damage the context of the passage.

 

Daily Reading: Isaiah 43

Isaiah 43

 Now this is what the Lord says—
the one who created you, Jacob,
and the one who formed you, Israel—
“Do not fear, for I have redeemed you;
I have called you by your name; you are mine.
² When you pass through the waters,
I will be with you,
and the rivers will not overwhelm you.
When you walk through the fire,
you will not be scorched,
and the flame will not burn you.
³ For I am the Lord your God,
the Holy One of Israel, and your Savior.
I have given Egypt as a ransom for you,
Cush and Seba in your place.
⁴ Because you are precious in my sight
and honored, and I love you,
I will give people in exchange for you
and nations instead of your life.
⁵ Do not fear, for I am with you;
I will bring your descendants from the east,
and gather you from the west.
⁶ I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’
and to the south, ‘Do not hold them back!’
Bring my sons from far away,
and my daughters from the ends of the earth—
⁷ everyone who bears my name
and is created for my glory.
I have formed them; indeed, I have made them.”

⁸ Bring out a people who are blind, yet have eyes,
and are deaf, yet have ears.
⁹ All the nations are gathered together,
and the peoples are assembled.
Who among them can declare this,
and tell us the former things?
Let them present their witnesses
to vindicate themselves,
so that people may hear and say, “It is true.”
¹⁰ “You are my witnesses”—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
“and my servant whom I have chosen,
so that you may know and believe me
and understand that I am he.
No god was formed before me,
and there will be none after me.
¹¹ I—I am the Lord.
Besides me, there is no Savior.
¹² I alone declared, saved, and proclaimed—
and not some foreign god among you.
So you are my witnesses”—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
“and I am God.
¹³ Also, from today on I am he alone,
and none can rescue from my power.
I act, and who can reverse it?”

¹⁴ This is what the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says:

Because of you, I will send an army to Babylon
and bring all of them as fugitives,
even the Chaldeans in the ships in which they rejoice.
¹⁵ I am the Lord, your Holy One,
the Creator of Israel, your King.

¹⁶ This is what the Lord says—
who makes a way in the sea,
and a path through raging water,
¹⁷ who brings out the chariot and horse,
the army and the mighty one together
(they lie down, they do not rise again;
they are extinguished, put out like a wick)—
¹⁸ “Do not remember the past events;
pay no attention to things of old.
¹⁹ Look, I am about to do something new;
even now it is coming. Do you not see it?
Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness,
rivers^[f] in the desert.
²⁰ Wild animals—
jackals and ostriches—will honor me,
because I provide water in the wilderness,
and rivers in the desert,
to give drink to my chosen people.
²¹ The people I formed for myself
will declare my praise.

²² “But, Jacob, you have not called on me,
because, Israel, you have become weary of me.
²³ You have not brought me your sheep for burnt offerings
or honored me with your sacrifices.
I have not burdened you with offerings
or wearied you with incense.
²⁴ You have not bought me aromatic cane with silver,
or satisfied me with the fat of your sacrifices.
But you have burdened me with your sins;
you have wearied me with your iniquities.

²⁵ “I am the one,I sweep away your transgressions
for my own sake
and remember your sins no more.
²⁶ Remind me. Let’s argue the case together.
Recount the facts, so that you may be vindicated.
²⁷ Your first father sinned,
and your mediators have rebelled against me.
²⁸ So I defiled the officers of the sanctuary,
and set Jacob apart for destruction
and Israel for scorn.

Daily Reading: Isaiah 42. "He will not break a bruised reed."

Isaiah 42  

“This is my servant; I strengthen him,
this is my chosen one; I delight in him.
I have put my Spirit on him;
he will bring justice to the nations.
² He will not cry out or shout
or make his voice heard in the streets.
³ He will not break a bruised reed,
and he will not put out a smoldering wick;
he will faithfully bring justice.
⁴ He will not grow weak or be discouraged
until he has established justice on earth.
The coasts and islands will wait for his instruction.”

⁵ This is what God, the Lord, says—
who created the heavens and stretched them out,
who spread out the earth and what comes from it,
who gives breath to the people on it
and spirit to those who walk on it—
⁶ “I am the Lord. I have called you
for a righteous purpose,
and I will hold you by your hand.
I will watch over you, and I will appoint you
to be a covenant for the people
and a light to the nations,
⁷ in order to open blind eyes,
to bring out prisoners from the dungeon,
and those sitting in darkness from the prison house.
⁸ I am the Lord. That is my name,
and I will not give my glory to another
or my praise to idols.
⁹ The past events have indeed happened.
Now I declare new events;
I announce them to you before they occur.”

A Song of Praise

¹⁰ Sing a new song to the Lord;
sing his praise from the ends of the earth,
you who go down to the sea with all that fills it,
you coasts and islands with your inhabitants.
¹¹ Let the desert and its cities shout,
the settlements where Kedar dwells cry aloud.
Let the inhabitants of Sela sing for joy;
let them cry out from the mountaintops.
¹² Let them give glory to the Lord
and declare his praise in the coasts and islands.
¹³ The Lord advances like a warrior;
he stirs up his zeal like a soldier.
He shouts, he roars aloud,
he prevails over his enemies.

¹⁴ “I have kept silent from ages past;
I have been quiet and restrained myself.
But now, I will groan like a woman in labor,
gasping breathlessly.
¹⁵ I will lay waste mountains and hills
and dry up all their vegetation.
I will turn rivers into islands
and dry up marshes.
¹⁶ I will lead the blind by a way they did not know;
I will guide them on paths they have not known.
I will turn darkness to light in front of them
and rough places into level ground.
This is what I will do for them,
and I will not abandon them.
¹⁷ They will be turned back and utterly ashamed—
those who trust in an idol
and say to a cast image,
‘You are our gods!’

Israel’s Blindness and Deafness

¹⁸ “Listen, you deaf!
Look, you blind, so that you may see.
¹⁹ Who is blind but my servant,
or deaf like my messenger I am sending?
Who is blind like my dedicated one,
or blind like the servant of the Lord?
²⁰ Though seeing many things, you pay no attention.
Though his ears are open, he does not listen.”

²¹ Because of his righteousness, the Lord was pleased
to magnify his instruction and make it glorious.
²² But this is a people plundered and looted,
all of them trapped in holes
or imprisoned in dungeons.
They have become plunder
with no one to rescue them
and loot, with no one saying, “Give it back!”
²³ Who among you will hear this?
Let him listen and obey in the future.
²⁴ Who gave Jacob to the robber,
and Israel to the plunderers?
Was it not the Lord?
Have we not sinned against him?
They were not willing to walk in his ways,
and they would not listen to his instruction.
²⁵ So he poured out his furious anger
and the power of war on Jacob.
It surrounded him with fire, but he did not know it;
it burned him, but he didn’t take it to heart.