Thematic Bible: Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84
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Spiritual » Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84 » Ps 42; 84
I have asked one thing from the LORD; it is what I really seek: that I may remain in the LORD's Temple all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD; and to inquire in his Temple.
Whom do I have in heaven but you? I desire nothing on this earth.
My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me searches for you. For when your judgments come upon the earth, the world's inhabitants learn righteousness.
Like newborn babies, thirst for the pure milk of the word so that by it you may grow in your salvation.
How blessed are you who are hungry now, because you will be satisfied! How blessed are you who are crying now, because you will laugh!
Everybody in Judah was very glad to make their oath, because they had made their vow with all their heart and had sought him with all of their might, and they found him! The LORD also gave them rest in their surrounding lands.
God, you are my God! I will fervently seek you. My soul thirsts for you; my flesh longs for you in a dry, weary, and parched land.
Lord, all my longings are before you, and my groaning is not hidden from you.
Spiritual » Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84 » Destitution of the truth
and incessant conflict between people who are depraved in mind and deprived of truth. They think that godliness is a way to make a profit.
You say, "I am rich. I have become wealthy. I don't need anything." Yet you don't realize that you are miserable, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.
"Listen to me, Asa, Judah, and Benjamin! The LORD is with you when you are with him. If you seek him, he will allow you to find him, but if you abandon him, he will abandon you. Israel lived for years without the true God, priests to teach them, and the Law,
At that time you were without the Messiah, excluded from citizenship in Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise. You had no hope and were in the world without God.
"Look! The days are coming," declares the Lord GOD, "when I will send a famine throughout the land not a famine of food or a thirst for water but rather a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.
Jerusalem's gates collapsed to the ground; he destroyed and broke the bars of her gates. Both king and prince have gone into captivity. There is no instruction, and the prophets receive no vision from the LORD.
We see no signs for us; there is no longer a prophet, and no one among us knows the future.
Disaster upon disaster will come, followed by rumor after rumor. They'll seek an oracle from the prophet, but the Law will be gone from the priests, and counsel from the elders.
After he had spent everything, a severe famine took place throughout that country, and he began to be in need.
Spiritual » Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84 » Dullness, condemned
No one stops to think. No one has the knowledge or understanding to think yes to think! "Half of it I burned in the fire. I even baked bread on its coals, and I roasted meat and ate it. And am I about to make detestable things from what is left? Am I about to bow down to blocks of wood?"
"Son of Man, you live in a rebellious house that has eyes to see, but they can't see, and ears to hear, but they can't hear, since they're a rebellious house.
A stupid man doesn't know, and a fool can't comprehend this:
You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, yet you don't know how to interpret the present time?"
Why don't you understand what I've said? It's because you can't listen to my words.
No one understands. No one searches for God.
We have much to say about this, but it is difficult to explain because you have become too lazy to understand.
Spiritual » Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84 » Drought
"As for the poor, the needy, those seeking water when there is none and their tongues are parched from thirst I, the LORD, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, won't abandon them.
Therefore my people go into exile because they lack understanding; my honored men go hungry, and the crowd is parched with thirst.
God causes the lonely to dwell in families. He leads prisoners into prosperity, but rebels live on parched land.
God, you are my God! I will fervently seek you. My soul thirsts for you; my flesh longs for you in a dry, weary, and parched land.
You'll be like an oak whose leaf is withering, like an unwatered garden.
He will be like a bush in the desert, and he won't see when good comes. He will dwell in parched places in the wilderness, a land of salt, without inhabitants.
At that time, the beautiful virgins will faint, as will the strong young men from thirst.
Spiritual » Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84 » Discernment
A person who isn't spiritual doesn't accept the things of God's Spirit, for they are nonsense to him. He can't understand them because they are spiritually evaluated.
So give your servant an understanding mind to govern your people, so I can discern between good and evil. Otherwise, how will I be able to govern this great people of yours?"
His delight will be in the fear of the LORD. He won't judge by what his eyes see, nor decide disputes by what his ears hear,
He'll eat cheese and honey, when he knows enough to reject what's wrong and choose what's right.
But solid food is for mature people, whose minds are trained by practice to distinguish good from evil.
Spiritual » Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84 » Disease
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? So why is there no healing for my people?
"Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? Your whole head is sick, and your whole heart is faint.
"For this is what the LORD says: "Your injury won't heal; your wound is severe.
For Samaria's injury is fatal, reaching all the way to Judah, extending even to the gate of my people to Jerusalem."
When Jesus heard that, he told them, "Healthy people don't need a physician, but sick ones do. I did not come to call righteous people, but sinners."
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