Shalom,
Psalm 119:96;
96 I have seen that everything [human] has its limits and end [no matter how extensive, noble, and excellent]; but Your commandment is exceedingly broad and extends without limits [into eternity].
This reminds me of the song from the Hillsong Beautiful Exchange CD: Like Fire. One verse says: "To all creation I can see a limit, but Your commands are boundless and have none". We will eventually reach the end of our natural human, strength, wisdom and ability. THAT is when HIS supernatural strength and abilities SHINE! COUNT ON IT!!! Verse 99:
99 I have better understanding and deeper insight than all my teachers, because Your testimonies are my meditation.
Re-read Joshua 1:8 and you will see that this is true! Now DO IT! Verse 114:
114 You are my hiding place and my shield; I hope in Your word.
In these days we live in, when everything seems to be chaos, go back to this verse and remind yourself of this over and over again! The Word of God is our place of total refuge, protection, provision and safety! Verse 135:
135 Make Your face shine [with pleasure] upon Your servant, and teach me Your statutes.
He is so very pleased when we WANT to know Him and His Word! WHEN we ask, HE will teach us! AMEN! Verse 160:
160 The sum of Your Word is Truth [the total of the full meaning of all Your individual precepts]; and every one of Your righteous decrees endures forever.
John 17:17 tells us that the Word IS Truth! Make His Word your final authority regarding anything and everything in your life. The result will be a life beyond compare here and many, many rewards in the next life! Hallelujah!
1 John 4:2-3:
2 By this you may know (perceive and recognize) the Spirit of God: every spirit which acknowledges and confesses [the fact] that Jesus Christ (the Messiah) [actually] has become a man and has come in the flesh is of God [has God for its source]; 3 And every spirit which does not acknowledge and confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh [but would annul, destroy, sever, disunite Him] is not of God [does not proceed from Him]. This [nonconfession] is the [spirit] of the antichrist, [of] which you heard that it was coming, and now is already in the world.
There are many voices out there declaring many things that go completely against God's Word! These verses are the very best gauge as to whether what is being said is TRUTH or not! Any person, doctrine or religion that refuses to accept and acknowledge that Jesus is exactly Who He said He is, has shown by that very act to be false! It is very easy to know and recognize false teaching! Just stay away from it! We are not called to expose false teaching! We are called to preach the Gospel! so let's DO IT!
In Ezekiel 4-6 God is again giving Ezekiel instructions to carry out as He is continuing to warn the nation of Israel of what will surely come upon them IF they do not repent and serve Him. I was amazed to see this in Ezekiel 5:6-7:
6 And she has changed and rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the [heathen] nations, and against My statutes more than the countries that are round about her; for [Israel] rejected My ordinances, and as for My statutes, they have not walked in them. 7 Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you were more turbulent and raged [against Me] more than the nations that are round about you and have not walked in My statutes, neither have kept My ordinances, nor have done according to the ordinances [concerning] the nations that are round about you;
The nation of Israel was WORSE than all the heathen nations in obeying the Word of God! It is no wonder that they were taken into captivity! God had to preserve a people to bring the Messiah through and, if left to continue unchecked, there may not have been even ONE righteous person left! Remember whenever you read and study the Word of God that EVERYTHING either points towards or back to the great plan of Salvation: God sending His only Son into the world to pay the price for OUR sin, so that we don't have to! HALLELUJAH!
Shalom in Him!
