OUR 34th YEAR

INSPIRED BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD

THE 19TH PSALM, THAT IS INSPIRED BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD AND HUMANLY WRITTEN BY KING DAVID OF ISRAEL ALMOST 3000 YEARS AGO, IS AS RELEVANT TODAY AS IT WAS YESTERYEAR.

IF WE ARE HONEST WITH OURSELVES, WE CANNOT OBSERVE THE HEAVENS, ITS STARS, SUN, MOON AND ALL OF THE ENTIRE SPLENDOR, AND NOT IMAGINE THAT SOMEONE GREAT AND POWERFUL CREATED THEM.

THE ISSUES OF CREATION

ISN’T IT INTERESTING THAT WE GO THROUGH LIFE (GENERALLY SPEAKING), LOOKING PARALLEL TO OUR VISION, BUT SELDOM DO WE LOOK UPWARD. WHY, BECAUSE WE SO OFTEN TAKE FOR GRANTED THE ISSUES OF CREATION, AND, SINCE WE ARE LIVING HUMAN BEINGS, WE TEND TO BE BUSY WITH OUR OWN PERSONAL INVOLVEMENTS, AND, UNLESS SOMETHING CATASTROPHIC TAKES PLACE, WE WILL KEEP GOING AND GOING, SELDOM REGARDING THE MAGNIFICENT FACTOR THAT THE ALMIGHTY GOD CONTINUES DAY BY DAY PRESERVING AND RESTORING OUR NATURAL WORLD.

HOW BLESSED WE REALLY ARE.

MAY WE LEARN MORE AND MORE TO APPRECIATE THE MANY BENEFITS THAT GOD HAS PROVIDED FOR US, ESPECIALLY IN THE NATURAL WORLD ALL AROUND US.

THE HOLY BIBLE

I BELIEVE, THAT WHEN WE STUDY AND RESEARCH THE HOLY BIBLE FOR OURSELVES, THEN WE CAN BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND THE GREATNESS AND GRANDEUR OF GODS LOVE FOR EACH ONE OF US IN CREATION AND ESPECIALLY IN THE SPIRITUAL REALM OF REGENERATION.

IN PSALM 115: 16, WE READ, ‘THE HEAVEN, EVEN THE HEAVENS, ARE THE LORD’S: BUT THE EARTH HATH HE GIVEN TO THE CHILDREN OF MEN.’

IT IS EVIDENT

IT IS EVIDENT THAT WE ARE RESPONSIBLE BEFORE THE ALMIGHTY GOD TO KEEP THIS EARTHLY POSSESSION OF OURS AS FREE FROM POLLUTION AS POSSIBLE SO THAT THE EARTH WILL GIVE FORTH ITS MAXIMUM FRUIT FOR OUR LABORS.

NOW, LET US BE REMINDED WHO GAVE US SUCH A WONDERFUL GIFT, SUCH AS THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH.

THERE ARE MANY PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURE THAT WE COULD REFERENCE, BUT FOR BREVITY, LET US LOOK INTO A BEAUTIFUL SECTION OF THE HOLY BIBLE THAT GIVES US ANSWERS NOT ONLY FOR THE EARTHS CREATION, BUT ALSO, FOR OUR NEEDFUL REGENERATED SPIRITUAL LIFE.

THE BRIGHTNESS OF HIS GLORY

IN HEBREWS 1: 1-3, WE READ, ‘GOD, WHO AT SUNDRY TIMES AND IN DIVERS MANNERS SPAKE IN TIME PAST UNTO THE FATHERS BY THE PROPHETS, HATH IN THESE LAST DAYS SPOKEN UNTO US BY HIS SON, WHOM HE HATH APPOINTED HEIR OF ALL THINGS, BY WHOM ALSO HE MADE THE WORLDS; WHO BEING THE BRIGHTNESS OF HIS GLORY, AND THE EXPRESS IMAGE OF HIS PERSON, AND UPHOLDING ALL THINGS BY THE WORD OF HIS POWER, WHEN HE HAD BY HIMSELF PURGED OUR SINS, SAT DOWN ON THE RIGHT HAND OF THE MAJESTY ON HIGH;’

THERE ARE SEVERAL KEY THOUGHTS IN OUR ABOVE TEXT:

FIRST, WE ARE TOLD THAT ‘HE (JESUS OUR LORD) MADE THE WORLDS’.

SEEN AND UNSEEN

EVERYTHING SEEN AND UNSEEN WAS MADE BY OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. HOW? SINCE HE IS ‘THE WORD OF GOD’ HE SPOKE INTO EXISTENCE AND IT WAS. YOU AND I CAN ONLY WORK ON AND DEVELOP THAT WHICH ALREADY HAS BEEN CREATED. WE CANNOT FROM NOTHING MAKE ANYTHING! BUT, WE CAN MOLD, SHAPE AND CONSTRUCT FROM THAT WHICH ALREADY HAS BEEN MADE (CREATED).

NOT SO WITH THE LORD, HE SPEAKS AND IT IS. FROM NOTHING HE MAKES SOMETHING, THAT’S BECAUSE HE IS GOD FROM WHOM ALL THINGS EMANATE.

IN THE BEGINNING GOD

IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED, WHEN THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING IN EXISTENCE BUT HE HIMSELF, FOR HE (THE LORD) IS THE SELF EXISTING ONE, THE ETERNAL ONE. INDEED GOD OF ALL.

A SELF DECLARATION OF THE SON (JESUS) IN JOHN 10: 30 PUTS HIM ON PAR WITH GOD THE FATHER, ‘I AND MY FATHER ARE ONE’. THUS, WHAT JESUS DID, SO ALSO THE FATHER, SO ALSO HIS SPIRIT.

‘FOR THERE IS ONE GOD, AND ONE MEDIATOR BETWEEN GOD AND MEN, THE MAN CHRIST JESUS’ (I TIMOTHY 2: 5).

SECONDLY, WE ARE REMINDED THAT ‘HE … BY HIMSELF PURGED OUR SINS’.

CLEANSED OR PURIFIED

THE WORD PURGED CAN ALSO BE UNDERSTOOD AS SOMEONE OR SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN CLEANSED OR PURIFIED.

AND, SINCE THE HOLY BIBLE REMINDS US IN LEVITICUS 17: 11, THAT IT TAKES A BLOOD ATONEMENT TO PURGE (TO MAKE CLEAN OR PURIFY) US FROM OUR SINS, THUS, THE BLOOD SACRIFICE NEEDED WAS PROVIDED FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL THAT BELIEVES AND RECEIVES THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AS PERSONAL SAVIOR AND LORD.

TO GOD BE ALL THE GLORY AND HONOR, THAT BY HIS GRACE ‘THROUGH FAITH’ WE CAN KNOW FOR SURE THAT ALL OF OUR SINS ARE FORGIVEN. BECAUSE OF THE SHED BLOOD ON THE CROSS, THE ATONEMENT THAT THE MESSIAH OF ISRAEL (THE LORD JESUS CHRIST) HAS ACCOMPLISHED. THE RESULT IS THAT THE LORD PLACES OUR TRESPASSES AS FAR AS THE EAST IS FROM THE WEST, NEVER AGAIN TO BE REMEMBERED.

LOOK UP

IN CONCLUSION, AS WE LOOK UP INTO THE SKIES, MAY IT ALWAYS REMIND US OF OUR CREATION, OUR REGENERATION AND THE GREAT HOPE THAT WE HAVE OF ETERNAL LIFE.

AS Y’SHUA (JESUS) OUR LORD SAID IN LUKE 21: 28, ‘… LOOK UP, AND LIFT UP YOUR HEADS; FOR YOUR REDEMPTION DRAWETH NIGH’.

‘SETTLE IT THEREFORE IN YOUR HEARTS’ (LUKE 21: 14).

MAY THE LORD GRANT EACH ONE OF US WISDOM, UNDERSTANDING AND KNOWLEDGE FROM HIS HOLY WORD TO DIRECT OUR EVERY STEP.

THUS SAITH THE LORD

‘THUS SAITH THE LORD, LET NOT THE WISE MAN GLORY IN HIS WISDOM, NEITHER LET THE MIGHTY MAN GLORY IN HIS MIGHT, LET NOT THE RICH MAN GLORY IN HIS RICHES: BUT LET HIM THAT GLORIETH GLORY IN THIS, THAT HE UNDERSTANDETH AND KNOWETH ME, THAT I AM THE LORD WHICH EXERCISE LOVINGKINDNESS, JUDGMENT, AND RIGHTEOUSNESS, IN THE EARTH: FOR IN THESE THINGS I DELIGHT, SAITH THE LORD.’.

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