March 19. 2022

 God With Us

I hope that your Saturday was filled with beautiful experiences

Psalms 79

Before David becomes King, his writing is more individual. It is about his personal experiences but as he become crowned to serve the great nation of Israel his thinking and psalms moves more into a people who serves God and not just an individual.  It is no longer just him standing before God. But it is this great Nation of Israel. 

A psalm of Asaph.

1 O God, the nations have invaded your inheritance.

    they have defiled your holy temple,

    they have reduced Jerusalem to rubble.

2 They have left the dead bodies of your servants

    as food for the birds of the sky,

    the flesh of your own people for the animals of the wild.

3 They have poured out blood like water

    all around Jerusalem,

    and there is no one to bury the dead.

4 We are objects of contempt to our neighbors,

    of scorn and derision to those around us.

5 How long, Lord? Will you be angry forever?

    How long will your jealousy burn like fire?

6 Pour out your wrath on the nations

    that do not acknowledge you,

on the kingdoms

    that do not call on your name;

7 for they have devoured Jacob

    and devastated his homeland.

8 Do not hold against us the sins of past generations;

    may your mercy come quickly to meet us,

    for we are in desperate need.

9 Help us, God our Savior,

    for the glory of your name;

deliver us and forgive our sins

    for your name’s sake.

10 Why should the nations say,

    “Where is their God?”

Before our eyes, make known among the nations

    that you avenge the outpoured blood of your servants.

11 May the groans of the prisoners come before you;

    with your strong arm preserve those condemned to die.

12 Pay back into the laps of our neighbors seven times

    the contempt they have hurled at you, Lord.

13 Then we your people, the sheep of your pasture,

    will praise you forever;

from generation to generation

    we will proclaim your praise.

THE SHEEP OF HIS PASTURE

We are the sheep of his pasture. 

Jesus goes to the Home of Martha and Mary

Luke 10 38-42

As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. She had a sister called Mary who sat at the Lord's feet listening to what he said. But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, Lord, don't you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!

Martha, Martha," The Lord answered. "You are worried and upset about many things, but few things are needed--or indeed only one. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her."

Worried about doing good things

Even those things the Lord says choose the best thing (listening to him). 

Have a great day!

As Jesus and his disciples were on their way