Slip and slide….

 

Slip and slide…

Slip and slide, a game played with a roll of plastic, some good slippery soap, water, a slightly inclined yard and a bunch of people…I recently witnessed this game but the winning was going up the hill not sliding down…a challenge…we talk about a slippery slope…we get involved with something that takes our joy, our thought and pretty soon, there we go down the slope back to our sin nature…not guarding our promises…reading this psalm, the author begins with how mighty is our God, his instruction, judgment and we go directly to the thought that others are FINALLY going to be taken care of…but, no….we find out He is going to judge his people first…what a deflater!  Aren’t those around me needing that before me…my pride steps up…then I read about needing a clean heart ….my sins assail me…my thoughts, actions that I have let slide down that slippery slope…

I have slid…

As much as I don’t want it, I need His judgement….His discipline…

Thank YOU…

The Mighty Judge…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsgebOIKxE0

The Mighty One, God, the Lord,speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to where it sets. 

( Accept instruction from his mouth and lay up his words in your heart.

Job.22.22)

( From the rising of the sun to the place where it sets,the name of the Lord is to be praised.

Ps.113.3)

From Zion, perfect in beauty,God shines forth. 

(  Beautiful in its loftiness,the joy of the whole earth,like the heights of Zaphon is Mount Zion,the city of the Great King.

Ps.48.2)

( He said:“The Lord came from Sinai-and dawned over them from Seir;he shone forth from Mount Paran.He came with myriads of holy onesfrom the south, from his mountain slopes.

Deut.33.2)

( Hear us, Shepherd of Israel,you who lead Joseph like a flock.You who sit enthroned between the cherubim,shine forth

Ps.80.1)

Our God comes and will not be silent;a fire devours before him,and around him a tempest rages. 

( Let all creation rejoice before the Lord, for he comes,he comes to judge the earth.He will judge the world in righteousness and  the peoples in his faithfulness.

Ps.96.13)

( Fire goes before himand consumes his foes on every side. His lightning lights up the world;the earth sees and trembles. The mountains melt like wax before the Lord,before the Lord of all the earth. The heavens proclaim his righteousness,and all peoples see his glory.

Ps.97.3-6)

( A river of fire was flowing,coming out from before him.Thousands upon thousands attended him;ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him.The court was seated,and the books were opened.

Dan.7.10)

He summons the heavens above,and the earth, that he may judge his people: 

( I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live there long but will certainly be destroyed.

Deut.4.26)

( Hear me, you heavens! Listen, earth!For the Lord has spoken:“I reared children and brought them up,but they have rebelled against me.

Isa.1.2)

 

“Gather to me this consecrated people,who made a covenant with me by sacrifice.” 

( Sing the praises of the Lord, you his faithful people;praise his holy name.

Ps.30.4)

( Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people. They responded, “We will do everything the Lord has said; we will obey.”

Exod.24.7)

And the heavens proclaim his righteousness,for he is a God of justice.

( It is God who judges:He brings one down, he exalts another.

Ps.75.7)

( In the council of the holy ones God is greatly feared;he is more awesome than all who surround him.

Ps.89.7)

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