King James Version, with Nii Okai's journal notes · 1 note
1The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
2Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
3Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
4He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.
5Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
6And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.
7Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.
8I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
9I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.
10For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
11I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
Really!? He knows. It sounds so much like the teaching of Jesus when he says every sparrow is numbered. And even the very hairs of our head are known and numbered.
This is very possible and is actually the case. Looking especially at how advanced we have become and we are able to keep very detailed records.
How much more the heavens and the systems God has set in place. Giving his creation structures and abilities to ensure that the systems are working. So there are actually heavenly scribes, recorders, recordings and systems of record for all these.
I am beginning to understand why God created man in the first place. Being a businessman myself, I see all the possibilities and the need for people to do all the little things you delegate to them, so that you can do only what you can do.
So God created man, and he, God, does only what he as God can do.
In this light, we messed things up, and the nature of the relationship and our mandate is being mended? But we still are man, and created in the image of God to build and to maintain and grow what has been committed to us.
Let me jump ahead.
This begs the question: what does God expect us to do, and what does he expect us to ask him to do, and what needs no asking but he, God, will do?
12If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
13Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
14Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:
15And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
16But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?
17Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
18When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
19Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
20Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son.
21These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
22Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
23Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.