Nor is his ear too dull to hear.
Rather, it is your own crimes that separate you from your God;
your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he doesn't hear.
For your hands are stained with blood and your fingers with crime; your lips speak lies, your tongues utter wicked things.
No one sues with just cause, no one pleads honestly in court, they trust in empty words, and say worthless things, they conceive trouble, and give birth to evil.
They hatch vipers eggs and spin spider-webs; whoever eats their eggs dies, and the crushed egg hatches a snake.
Their webs are useless as clothing, their deeds are useless for wearing, their deeds are deeds of wickedness, their hands produce violence. Their feet run to evil, they rust to shed innocent blood, their thoughts are thoughts of wickedness, their paths lead to havoc and ruin.
The way of shalom (peace) they do not know, their goings-about obey no law, they make devious paths for themselves, no one treading them will never know shalom.
This is why justice is far from us,
and righteousness doesn't catch up with us.
we look for light, but see only darkness, for brightness, but we walk in gloom.
We grope for the wall like the blind; like people without eyes we feel our way; we stumble at noonday as if it were dusk, we are in dark places like the dead.
We growl, all of us, like bears and moan pitifully like doves; we look for justice but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.
For our crimes multiply before you, our sins testify against us; for our crimes are present with us; and our sins, we know them well:
Rebelling and denying Adonai (God)
turning away from following our God', talking about oppression and revolt, uttering lies which our hearts have conceived.
Thus justice is repelled, righteousness stands apart, at a distance;
for truth stumbles in the public court, and uprightness cannot enter.
Honesty is lacking, he who leaves evil becomes a target.
Adonai saw it, and it displeased him, that there was no justice.
He saw that there was no one, was amazed that no one interceded.
Therefore his own arm brought him salvation, and his own righteousness sustained him.
He put on righteousness as his breastplate, salvation as a helmet on his head; he clothed himself with garment of vengeance and wrapped and wrapped himself in a mantle of zeal.
He repays according to their deeds - fury to his foes, reprisal to his enemies, to the coastlands he will repay their due; in the west they will fear the name of Adonai, and likewise, in the east, his glory.
For he will come like a pent-up stream, impelled by the Spirit of Adonai.
"Then a Redeemer will come to Tziyon, to those in Ya'akov who trun from rebellion"
So says Adonai
"And as for me" says Adonai,
"This is my covenant with them: my Spirit, who rests on you, and my words which I put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth or from the mouth of your children, or from the mouth of your children's children, now or ever" says Adonai
When we consider the fact that most of the world churches and people do not really believe that God is going to do what he says he is going to do. Most of the so called people who worship God do not really understand his mighty power. You only have to look into the scriptures to really get a good idea of how powerful God really is.
Whenever I read a scripture which is where people are in dire straights and being surrounded by their enemies, yet in the midst of all the danger, there is always one voice which cries out to God of Israel with heartfelt full blown awe for the Living God that God hears his cry and listens to him and in his mercy he shows that person the way out of any given situation.
We today, often call out to God yet not really believing that he is going to hear us, we really do not consider his awesome power - this mighty creator of the universe, many people just put God in a box on Sunday and forget about the awesome everyday things that God is actually involved with.
Do you realize that God choose to create Human beings for his pleasure - He gave us this magnificent planet to enjoy, to bring glory and thanks giving back to himself.
God gave us his precious son so that we may have a mediator between us and God who shared for a short time our planet living with us as a human being - obeying God unto death for our benefit - no other love has any man shown to any like this God has given to us.
God created us, gave us a brilliant home, and yet how do we repay him, we deny him, we consider his word as nothing, we cast out his laws as if they were antiquated - yet in reality when studying his laws you would see that they are for our benefit for all mankind.
He has been so generous to us, he gave us a rainbow in the sky to remind himself not to flood the earth again as he did in the time of Noah - wow - and when we look and see the rainbow are we amazed at the truth behind it or do you just look and say hey isn't that nice. For me to see a rainbow is a great reminder of the promise that God gave to us as Mankind.
How do we repay this mighty living God - we dont
God says all those that call on his name in that day shall be saved.
Well, on the day I cried out to a God I did not believe in and had his hand personally touch my life and change it for me, I do not look at God in quite the same way.
He gave me life, he has given me hope, he has restored to me all the joy that a person could have. I praise God every day I get up. I thank him for every beautiful new day, for the birds that sing, for the trees that oxygenate the planet, for the wonderful seas we have with the abundance of life. I praise God for his wonderful mercy and truth.
I praise God for his mighty delivering hand, he led the children of Israel out into the desert to become their father and he took care of them - every step of the way, how do you repay such a God as this.
In with the children of Israel were also foreigners - that is they were not all Israelite's, some were from tribes outside of Gods chosen people, yet they choose to walk with God and keep His commandments and live just like the Israelite s and to receive all the blessings and also all the curses as God had indicated in Deuteronomy.
Sometimes we forget that there were foreigners in amongst the Israelite's in the desert, yet when you read the book of Genesis you can clearly see that this is a fact, therefore all the laws that God gave to Moses also apply to all mankind. He showed it very clearly in that fact when the foreigners were also given the same rules as they were living with the Israelite's in the desert.
On doing my family tree, I discovered that there were ways to find your line going way back.
When I had a dream once where I was loosed from a chain of my family and was able to walk back down the line I could see it right back into the beginning of time. We all have this line, none of us are just from the modern times, we all have a family history. I took mine down my fathers line, and I was very surprised to discover how far back it went. I discovered from some writings it went as far back as Exodus, amongst the foreigners who were with the Israelite's therefore it showed me that no matter what we think we know about our past sometimes it is even more interesting when you are prepared to walk with God and really discover the truth. When I started to walk down that path and discovered this information, I went one step further and was looking to see where the "gentiles""foreigners" came from, From the sons of Noah - he had with him in the boat, out of these came the tribes of man, so no matter what you think, we are all connected to Gods own story - we all are part of the tapestry of life. We all have our own part to play.
For me the discovery made so much more sense than anything else. To know we are connected right back to Noah - who in turn is connected back to Adam, who in turn is the first creation of God, who gave us life.
When we think that in the beginning God in his heaven decided to stretch forth his hand and create the universe and everything living and breathing, in and out of water, it is an amazing achievement, whether you believe we have evolved from some goo on the planet ponds, the amazing beautiful God decided we were worth creating. He decided that each animal was worth creating, that no matter we may consider as real or not, the fact is that we are all here sharing in this amazing planet.
Do not think that I am a little goofy, I do not care what you think, I do care what God thinks about me, and how he has kept me and sustained me and helped me through all my dark days and nights, how he has held me in his arms and comforted me when I lost my way, how he drew me back to his loving and tender mercies.
I praise the Living God, Creator that without his input this universe would blow apart and never be.
When you read of how he intends to create a new heavens and a new earth for those that will follow him, does it not make you think just a little bit about what you really believe.
I praise God that his are is not too short to save us from ourselves.
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