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Let's go to the potter's house for our coffee with Jesus this morning!
Today's reading is from Jeremiah 18:1-10:
As we read, if in His anger He ever spoke anything against us and we repent and plead for mercy, He immediately relents. On the other hand any blessings we have been promised could be reverted based on our evilness.
Often times we take the Scripture so lightly that we do not realize it is the very Word of God Almighty. Let us give the Word the reverence it so deserves.
King David lifts up a beautiful prayer in Psalm 119:33-40, which can serve as an example for us as to how to develop reverence for the Word of God:
Teach me, O LORD, the way of Your statutes,
And I shall observe it to the end.
Give me understanding, that I may observe Your law
And keep it with all my heart.
Make me walk in the path of Your commandments,
For I delight in it.
Incline my heart to Your testimonies
And not to dishonest gain.
Turn away my eyes from looking at vanity,
And revive me in Your ways.
Establish Your word to Your servant,
As that which produces reverence for You.
Turn away my reproach which I dread,
For Your ordinances are good.
Behold, I long for Your precepts;
Revive me through Your righteousness.
Amen!
Look at the key points that I have highlighted here, which covers from all different angles of distraction one may encounter during the walk of faith. It takes a concious effort to refocus our attention to the reverence of the Lord's commandments. Let this be our lessons learnt this morning.
Let's go to the potter's house for our coffee with Jesus this morning!
Today's reading is from Jeremiah 18:1-10:
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: “Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message.” So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel. But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.
Then the word of the Lord came to me: “O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter does?” declares the Lord. “Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.
If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down and destroyed, and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned.
And if at another time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be built up and planted, and if it does evil in my sight and does not obey me, then I will reconsider the good I had intended to do for it."
As we read, if in His anger He ever spoke anything against us and we repent and plead for mercy, He immediately relents. On the other hand any blessings we have been promised could be reverted based on our evilness.
Often times we take the Scripture so lightly that we do not realize it is the very Word of God Almighty. Let us give the Word the reverence it so deserves.
King David lifts up a beautiful prayer in Psalm 119:33-40, which can serve as an example for us as to how to develop reverence for the Word of God:
Teach me, O LORD, the way of Your statutes,
And I shall observe it to the end.
Give me understanding, that I may observe Your law
And keep it with all my heart.
Make me walk in the path of Your commandments,
For I delight in it.
Incline my heart to Your testimonies
And not to dishonest gain.
Turn away my eyes from looking at vanity,
And revive me in Your ways.
Establish Your word to Your servant,
As that which produces reverence for You.
Turn away my reproach which I dread,
For Your ordinances are good.
Behold, I long for Your precepts;
Revive me through Your righteousness.
Amen!
Look at the key points that I have highlighted here, which covers from all different angles of distraction one may encounter during the walk of faith. It takes a concious effort to refocus our attention to the reverence of the Lord's commandments. Let this be our lessons learnt this morning.
Love this! I just read Psalm 119 yesterday. So, powerful. So many times my mind thought of Pastor Saeed (SaveSaeed.org)as I read it. Do you know his story?
Hi Becky: Nice to hear from you after so long.
Yes, we did hear of him and I had been praying some time. It's a shame I haven't carried it thru'.
Let us pray in unison for him and his family.
In Christ's love,
Hephzibah
Hello Hephzibah!
I really do love this post. And it is about distractions and yes, distractions have kept me away. Some of them are wonderful though... I've started spending a lot of time alone with the Lord and reading and studying His Word. I have so a many things I want to do and my thoughts are so disorganized so I've been spending quite a bit of time trying to organize my thoughts and get better at writing down what the Spirit teaches me through these times and the questions I may have etc. I'm also trying to organize my prayer time. I hate telling someone I'll pray for them and then end up forgetting and there are also so many people I want to be intentionally praying for on a consistent basis. I've found my prayer time can get away from me, time-wise, and I love it! Just like a phone call from a friend that lasts for hours! Then there are the household chores and activities once kids are out of school and time slips away and before I know it, its been a while since stopping in. :/ I do love your blog and am so impressed how you never miss a post. I do hate the times I miss it.
Praying always for Pastor Saeed. It seems there is hardly any Scripture I can read where his case/cause doesn't come across my heart and I must stop to pray. But this is only lately. There have been many days since first hearing of his story that I didn't.
Love,
Becky
Also, I just found where I should "check" the box to get notifications of your comments. I never knew you had replied. Ooops!