Your word, Father, You have founded forever. FOREVER!! My heart finds such comfort and rest in these words! The world roils as the sea but Your word, O God, is forever settled...immutable. You pull me up out of the deep mire and the rising flood waters and set my feet on the rock of Your word. Nothing about Your word is uncertain...it is fixed and sure and is true from the beginning. Every one of Your righteous judgements endures forever. Mercy is built up forever and Your faithfulness is established in the heavens. All that is in Your word...every jot and every tittle...will be fulfilled. Heaven and earth will pass away but Your word will not. These words play in my heart, Father, as such a joyful theme filled with glad tidings! So much of my world changes constantly. Time waits for no man...but the word of my God is from old the SAME!!!
O Father, set my heart to gaze upon You...to behold the Lamb who takes away the sins of the world and grants us His peace forever. When my spirit is overwhelmed within me, You are not...You know my path! Help me to think and meditate on the promises found in Your word and the hope I have in Your Son. No matter how dark and unsettled things become here...my refuge and shelter is in You who rules over them all. All of Your word is settled forever in heaven as are all of Your purposes for me. Renew my mind with Your word and likewise a steadfast spirit within me.
“Therefore know that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments; --Deuteronomy 7:9
PSALM 100
Make a joyful shout to the Lord, all you lands!
Serve the Lord with gladness;
Come before His presence with singing.
Know that the Lord, He is God;
It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves;
We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.
Serve the Lord with gladness;
Come before His presence with singing.
Know that the Lord, He is God;
It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves;
We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.
Enter into His gates with thanksgiving,
And into His courts with praise.
Be thankful to Him, and bless His name.
For the Lord is good;
His mercy is everlasting,
And His truth endures to all generations.
And into His courts with praise.
Be thankful to Him, and bless His name.
For the Lord is good;
His mercy is everlasting,
And His truth endures to all generations.
