Shalom,
Psalm 70 is pretty short after the Psalms we've just gone through! I want to look particularly at verse 4:
4May all those who seek, inquire of and for You, and require You [as their vital need] rejoice and be glad in You; and may those who love Your salvation say continually, Let God be magnified!
Are YOU seeking and inquiring of and for the Lord? Do you require Him as your vital necessity? If so, then rejoice and be glad! Do YOU love His "salvation", "Yeshuw`ah" (welfare, prosperity, deliverance, and victory)? Then be continually saying "Let the God be magnified"! AMEN!
In Mark 14 we see Jesus and His Apostles preparing for the Passover. As they are eating the woman with the alabaster jar of ointment comes and begins to anoint Jesus with it. Immediately the disciples started playing the "religious" game! See what they said:
4But there were some who were moved with indignation and said to themselves, To what purpose was the ointment (perfume) thus wasted?
5For it was possible to have sold this [perfume] for more than 300 denarii [a laboring man's wages for a year] and to have given [the money] to the poor. And they censured and reproved her.
Do you REALLY think that they were that concerned for the poor? I love the answer that Jesus gives:
6But Jesus said, Let her alone; why are you troubling her? She has done a good and beautiful thing to Me [praiseworthy and noble].
7For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you wish you can do good to them; but you will not always have Me.
8She has done what she could; she came beforehand to anoint My body for the burial.
9And surely I tell you, wherever the good news (the Gospel) is proclaimed in the entire world, what she has done will be told in memory of her.
We see all of the disciples claim that they would never deny knowing Jesus. Then Judas betrays Jesus and we see the events play out that lead to the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth! As they took Him away, we see the fulfillment of what Jesus had told them they would do:
27And Jesus said to them, You will all fall away this night [that is, you will be caused to stumble and will begin to distrust and desert Me], for it stands written, I will strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.
They all DID leave Him for a time! They will hide out in fear, until Jesus shows Himself to them!
In Leviticus 10-11 we see Aaron's sons, Nadab and Abihu, having JUST HEARD the instructions from Moses, burning strange incense before the Lord and paying for it, with their lives! Then the Lord instructs Moses on what the people could and could not eat. What a long list of things to remember! Thank You, Jesus, again, for the New Covenant, based on better promises! AMEN!
Shalom in Him!
