"....I will bless Your name forever and ever....My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord, and all flesh shall bless His holy name forever and ever." (Psalm 145:2 &21)
This is the Psalm 145 day of the month.
Apparently, Jesus, "The Word of God," does not grow weary with repetition. At some point in Church History the "Canon" was closed. The Bible, as we now have it, is complete, no additions, no "prophetic utterances," nothing more to be said which can usurp the eternal power, "completion," the all-sufficiency of what we have access to, that which is called, "God-Breathed."
Sometimes I think people come up with, and others demand, "some new thing." It's sort of like Apple. They keep coming up with the "latest," the newest, the different, just to keep customers. There are the mind bending video games for "children," which just keep getting more violent, or the ridiculous horsepower race and gadgetry of some auto makers. Then there is Christendom. For so many, nothing has changed since Mars Hill, "For all the Athenians and the foreigners who were there spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing."
This is the Psalm 145 day of the month.
Apparently, Jesus, "The Word of God," does not grow weary with repetition. At some point in Church History the "Canon" was closed. The Bible, as we now have it, is complete, no additions, no "prophetic utterances," nothing more to be said which can usurp the eternal power, "completion," the all-sufficiency of what we have access to, that which is called, "God-Breathed."
Sometimes I think people come up with, and others demand, "some new thing." It's sort of like Apple. They keep coming up with the "latest," the newest, the different, just to keep customers. There are the mind bending video games for "children," which just keep getting more violent, or the ridiculous horsepower race and gadgetry of some auto makers. Then there is Christendom. For so many, nothing has changed since Mars Hill, "For all the Athenians and the foreigners who were there spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing."
For me, however, the last 46 years have proven to be life changing and saving. Going through the Scriptures over and over again is not wearisome. "God-Breathed," is more than a clever phrase. The Words which one can read as much and as often as one cares to are "wonderful words of life." Some of those words tell us, "Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest....For the Word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword...." I found it interesting to note the connection between, "enter that rest," and, "For the Word of God is...powerful...." I never noticed that before, but I can attest to the connection. The, "rest," here and which our Lord Jesus tells us that we have in Him, is in His Words, "The Word of God,"--- over and over and over again.
So, with David today, you and I can say, "Every day will I bless You, and I will praise Your Name forever and ever," and as Psalm 56 declares, I too say, "In God (I will praise His Word)....In God (I will praise His Word)"----- "forever and ever," no growing weary, no demand, "to hear some new thing."
Father, in Jesus' Name, "Sing them over again to me, Wonderful Words of life." Amen.
So, with David today, you and I can say, "Every day will I bless You, and I will praise Your Name forever and ever," and as Psalm 56 declares, I too say, "In God (I will praise His Word)....In God (I will praise His Word)"----- "forever and ever," no growing weary, no demand, "to hear some new thing."
Father, in Jesus' Name, "Sing them over again to me, Wonderful Words of life." Amen.
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
