"Cast your burden on the Lord [release it] and He will sustain and uphold you; He will never allow the righteous to be shaken (slip, fall, fail). (Psalm 55:22, Amplified)
We could also add that, "He will never allow the righteous to be removed." The person who compiled the Amplified Bible was not a Greek or Hebrew "expert." She studied the Bible carefully, using all the tools available to her at the time in order to "amplify" Biblical texts. If you use a modern Interlinear Bible, you could do the same; I do.
The Bible teaches us that the only, "righteous," person of our text is the person in whom Jesus Christ lives, the one absolutely, surrendered to Jesus Christ; we could call it, "unconditional surrender." The one in whom Jesus Christ lives has been washed in the Blood of Jesus and can now sing with the writer of old, as he thought of the repentant thief on his cross, "and there have I, though vile as he, washed all my sins away." And I am "vile as he." But that "Fountain filled with blood," is filled for you and me and all humanity, and in Jesus' Blood is everything; I'm not even going to attempt a "list."
This is another one of the incomprehensible promises of the Blessed Trinity. Centuries later, Jesus Christ appeared, "a Savior which is Christ the Lord." The messenger said to Joseph that He was to be called, "Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins." Jesus would a few years later affirm the "concept" of our text to any one who would listen and obey, "Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden...and you will find rest for your souls," which can be another way of affirming, "never to be shaken, never to slip, never to be removed." Turn again to self reliance, self dependence, however, and, as the colloquialism goes, "all bets are off."
In this day of increasing uncertainty over so many things in life, an ever newer barbarism raising its ugly head, nations in such debt that one wonders what would happen if the proverbial "bubble" bursts, the growing reality which faces us all, that old age brings limitations which we had not imagined in the "can-do-anything" years, it is powerful to be able to rest each day in Jesus and His Word to you and me, "[I] will never allow the righteous to be shaken."
Father, in Jesus' Name, thank You. Amen.
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Good visit yesterday with some First Nations People in Salamanca, New York, the only city in the United States which is within an Indian Reservation.
We could also add that, "He will never allow the righteous to be removed." The person who compiled the Amplified Bible was not a Greek or Hebrew "expert." She studied the Bible carefully, using all the tools available to her at the time in order to "amplify" Biblical texts. If you use a modern Interlinear Bible, you could do the same; I do.
The Bible teaches us that the only, "righteous," person of our text is the person in whom Jesus Christ lives, the one absolutely, surrendered to Jesus Christ; we could call it, "unconditional surrender." The one in whom Jesus Christ lives has been washed in the Blood of Jesus and can now sing with the writer of old, as he thought of the repentant thief on his cross, "and there have I, though vile as he, washed all my sins away." And I am "vile as he." But that "Fountain filled with blood," is filled for you and me and all humanity, and in Jesus' Blood is everything; I'm not even going to attempt a "list."
This is another one of the incomprehensible promises of the Blessed Trinity. Centuries later, Jesus Christ appeared, "a Savior which is Christ the Lord." The messenger said to Joseph that He was to be called, "Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins." Jesus would a few years later affirm the "concept" of our text to any one who would listen and obey, "Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden...and you will find rest for your souls," which can be another way of affirming, "never to be shaken, never to slip, never to be removed." Turn again to self reliance, self dependence, however, and, as the colloquialism goes, "all bets are off."
In this day of increasing uncertainty over so many things in life, an ever newer barbarism raising its ugly head, nations in such debt that one wonders what would happen if the proverbial "bubble" bursts, the growing reality which faces us all, that old age brings limitations which we had not imagined in the "can-do-anything" years, it is powerful to be able to rest each day in Jesus and His Word to you and me, "[I] will never allow the righteous to be shaken."
Father, in Jesus' Name, thank You. Amen.
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Good visit yesterday with some First Nations People in Salamanca, New York, the only city in the United States which is within an Indian Reservation.
When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"
Hebrews 12:2
Hebrews 12:2
