Larry Devich
Sunday, September 17, 2006
Sunday in Week 15 of Pentecost - September 17 - Lora Devich's Birthday!
Happy Birthday to Lora Ann Devich, my one and only daughter! Now having reached the astounding age of 25 Lora is still my baby in my mind :-)
Daily readings
Job 4:1-6, 12-21
Revelation 4:1-11
Mark 6:1-6
Psalter
Morning 84, 85 Evening 86-88
Alas there was no Higher Things reflection posted at 6:00 am Pacific Time so I will be making some comments on the day's scripture readings myself. Which I might start doing more often actually. I suppose I could shift forward a day in the readings that I actually do each day so that the proper reading is posted each day... hmm, well I'll think about that.
Psalm 84 is a description of the joy we experience in going to God's house:
10For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness. 11For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor. No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly. 12O LORD of hosts, blessed is the one who trusts in you!
In the reading form Job is this passage,
17'Can mortal man be in the right before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker? 18Even in his servants he puts no trust, and his angels he charges with error; 19how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like the moth. 20Between morning and evening they are beaten to pieces; they perish forever without anyone regarding it. 21Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them, do they not die, and that without wisdom?'
A clear declaration of our sinfulness before God. Here is a statement of our doom outside of the salvation of Jesus Christ.
In Revelation is our Lord on His throne!
"Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!"
"Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created."
What a glorious time that will be when we are all together with the Lord in heaven!
Finally the gospel shows us our God in his humiliation, having humbled himself to become man for us he is rejected in his own home town, by those who knew him best and ought to have been able to recognize his sinless state. I wonder why they could not see it? Probably it was their sinful nature, we never look on others as they truly are but we look at them through our own sinful eyes that distort what we see.
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Daily readings
Job 4:1-6, 12-21
Revelation 4:1-11
Mark 6:1-6
Psalter
Morning 84, 85 Evening 86-88
Alas there was no Higher Things reflection posted at 6:00 am Pacific Time so I will be making some comments on the day's scripture readings myself. Which I might start doing more often actually. I suppose I could shift forward a day in the readings that I actually do each day so that the proper reading is posted each day... hmm, well I'll think about that.
Psalm 84 is a description of the joy we experience in going to God's house:
10For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness. 11For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor. No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly. 12O LORD of hosts, blessed is the one who trusts in you!
In the reading form Job is this passage,
17'Can mortal man be in the right before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker? 18Even in his servants he puts no trust, and his angels he charges with error; 19how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like the moth. 20Between morning and evening they are beaten to pieces; they perish forever without anyone regarding it. 21Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them, do they not die, and that without wisdom?'
A clear declaration of our sinfulness before God. Here is a statement of our doom outside of the salvation of Jesus Christ.
In Revelation is our Lord on His throne!
"Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!"
"Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created."
What a glorious time that will be when we are all together with the Lord in heaven!
Finally the gospel shows us our God in his humiliation, having humbled himself to become man for us he is rejected in his own home town, by those who knew him best and ought to have been able to recognize his sinless state. I wonder why they could not see it? Probably it was their sinful nature, we never look on others as they truly are but we look at them through our own sinful eyes that distort what we see.
ΒΆ 9/17/2006 06:13:00 AM 0 Comments
