John Dear said: “Put your sword back! These are the last words – a definitive rebuke – the disciples hear from Jesus before they run away. If ever there was a moment in God’s eyes when violence would be justifiable, this is it! But Jesus is clear: Put your sword back! His followers are not allowed to respond with violence. They are not allowed to kill. They are not allowed to harm others. They are not allowed to threaten others….
Indeed, this might highlight outside control: the rapscallion has no restraining infrastructure of wrongdoing. Rods [Scepter] as in Psalm 125, here, possibly taken for persecution, for rule; afterward it might be along these lines deciphered: The fiendish will not be allowed to persecute consistently, nor to have a permanent rule. Notwithstanding how insidious the occasions, they realized that the Lord had guaranteed never to permit the evil to prevail over the righteous, who are to Him the exemplary.
All that love God must deal upon trust, and He will offer solace to those solitaries that provide credit to Him and cause it to show up they do as such by stopping different confidences and daring to the most extreme for God. The closer our desires are bound to God, the higher our hopes might be raised. It is great to see a lot, and to trust in the Lord with developing information, at the same time, dear soul,…
N. T. Wright said: “Here is the mystery, the secret, one might almost say the cunning, of the deep love of God: that it is bound to draw on to itself the hatred and pain and shame and anger and bitterness and rejection of the world, but to draw all those things on to itself is precisely the means, chosen from all eternity by the generous, loving God, by which to rid his world of the evils which have resulted…
C. H. Spurgeon said: “When we worship the Creator, let us increase our trust in our Comforter. Did He create all that we see, and can He not preserve us from evils which we cannot see?”
Yes, worship must remain in a well contextually dictate of God. Yes, our thinking in worship should run through the whole Scripture. I mean those Scriptures we are led to use in worship. Remember that the sole actor in our deliverance is Jesus Christ as the Jehovah God was the only actor in the liberation of Israel. Yes, no human arm has been bared for them; no created might could have rescued them from the surge of the bulging cascade,…
Mother Teresa said: “I always begin my prayer in silence, for it is in the silence of the heart that God speaks. God is the friend of silence – we need to listen to God because it’s not what we say but what he says to us and through us that matters. Prayer feeds the soul – as blood is to the body, prayer is to the soul – and it brings you closer to God. It also gives you…
Believers’ journey on earth has its goal. I mean, the main objective of the walk with Christ is to look up to Him always. In Psalm 123, the encouragement is apparent; look above the hills to the LORD in heaven. Meaning, the goal of the pilgrim is not Jerusalem, as crucial as that city was, or even the temple in Jerusalem, as vital as it was, but God Himself, whose real throne is not anywhere down in and on earth,…
Yes, Psalm 123 asserts the need to look beyond ourselves, sky, and the likes for help. The psalmist declares his intention and action to look up his eyes to the LORD. Simply, his eyes are not on his circumstances or himself, but on the LORD. C. H. Spurgeon said: “It is good to have someone to look up to. The Psalmist looked so high that he could look no higher. Not to the hills, but to the God of the…
Christian Wiman said: “It is easy enough to write and talk about God while remaining comfortable within the contemporary intellectual climate. Even people who would call themselves unbelievers often use the word gesturally, as a ready-made synonym for mystery. But if nature abhors a vacuum, Christ abhors a vagueness. If God is love, Christ is love for this one person, this one place, this one time-bound and time-ravaged self.”