Homegoing of Jacob Coleman Psalm 121

-

 "How many timid, anxious hearts has this sweet outpouring of quiet trust braced and lifted to its own serene height of conscious safety! This psalmist is so absorbed in the thought of his Keeper that he barely names his dangers. With happy assurance of protection, he says over and over again the one word which is his (protection) against foes and fears. Six times in these few verses does the thought recur that LORD is the Keeper of Israel and the single soul ( Jacob). The quietness that comes of confidence is the singer’s strength. Whether he is an exile, looking across the plains of Mesopotamia towards the blue hills. which the eye cannot discern, or a pilgrim catching the first sight of the mountain on which the LORD  sits enshrined"  Bible Hub commentary, " Expositor's Bible"

He may have an exile in Bablyon and he looks to the hills around Jersualem " As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about His people from henceforth even for ever." 125:2

As we visited on last Friday at the home in Loango, this vs kept going through my head when we prayed as I left, " vs 8- The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore."

Preserve same as keep and protect , watch-used 6 times in this Psalm.

My foot slips & God catches me.  How many dangers have we overcome...and He has led me home---our days are numbered as the very hairs of our head too.

Amazing Grace.  I have to quote the whole thing.

Amazing Grace! How sweet the sound

That saved a wretch like me!

I once was lost, but now am found

Was blind, but now I see.


'Twas Grace that taught my heart to fear,

And Grace my fears relieved.

How precious did that Grace appear

The hour I first believed.


Through many dangers, toils, and snares

I have already come.

'Tis Grace hath brought me safe thus far

And Grace will lead me home.


The Lord has promised good to me.

His Word my hope secures.

He will my shield and portion be

As long as life endures.


When we've been there ten thousand years

Bright shining as the sun,

We've no less days to sing God's praise

Than when we'd first begun. My times are in Your Hands.  We say that often but do not realize what we are saying.  We are trying to make sense of the time we have.  How can we do it?  Realize that we have a Keeper and Protector.  He will keep us and bring us home as He has done with Jacob since Friday and all of his illness and times of going out and coming in.

" And the in -between"  

"Your soul"  He shall watch.  The word is that which breathes, the breathing substance or being = ψυχή, anima, the soul, the inner being of man---our emotions, our steps are always ordered by God as we are His children by faith in Jesus Christ His Son our Lord.

Our goings out and our goings are all watched by God.  He does not slumber or sleep. Today we entrust Jacob into God's loving Hands and never- failing care because God is doing for him better things than we can desire or pray for.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Balancing our Romans 5 Justification with holiness in the life Romans 6

-
  A Balance to Justification Romans 6     Last week we discussed the area of grace in the operation of our salvation.  We saw in Romans 5:1-8 that salvation, we call it justification is by faith through the un-merited grace of the Eternal Trinity. Without peace with God we have no eternal life.  That peace with God and the person of Christ is there as we develop relationships with other Christians in the Church. This is what was so important. "That is to say, in the Christian community we do not relate to one another “immediate[ly],” we relate to one another mediately – through the “mediation of Christ.” For that reason, we love others not directly, but for Christ’s sake."  Article on Life Together by Bonhoeffer.    We said in summary we are not seeking a rules-based Christianity necessarily,  but have grace to access to God through His life-changing Gospel of the good news, that Christ died for the ungodly, and we were all that before Christ came to us.  We did not come to H
Read more

Walk worthily Philippians 1:27

-
  Worthily   Philippians 1:27 Some of my favorite vs are in the Philippians letter.  1:6, "  being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ" 1:21 " For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain." Ch 2 talks about unity through humility and being like Christ, doing things with the mind of Christ.Ch 3 is great too about our citizenship being in heaven and awaiting the Savior from heaven, Jesus Christ who will transform our lowly bodies at the Resurrection Ch 4 may be the best with not being anxious and to cast all our care upon Him and not being anxious.  But in vs 27 of ch 1 we are exhorted to " walk worthily of the gospel of Christ"    As a noun, axiom refers to a statement that is accepted as true and serves as the basis for argument or inference. It can also mean an established rule, principle, or self-evident truth.  Walk worthily of the Gospel of Christ, v. 27 recognized as
Read more

The Vine and the Branches John 15

-
  John 15.  The Vine and the Branches   This is obviously a well-known part of the teaching of Jesus.  Every time I come to it, I gain something new from it.  It makes sense because Israel too was known as a vine.  Unfortunately Israel did not always behave in the way God required of them.  " He looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes." Is 5:2  If we are part of the vine and the branches we too know this all too well. Our intentions may be pure but somehow we act in such a way that we do not experience God's peace.  It usually has something to do with us, not God, for His calling and purposes are always good. 1.  God calls us as He did with the people of Israel.  They did not follow before His call of them individually and as a people.  We too are called to Him .  Vs 16 " Ye have not chosen me, but I have chose you and ordained you, that you should go and bring forth fruit." We cannot be proud or boastful for we know before we
Read more