What a prayer for Israel in this Psalm (v. 9)- He is their help and shield. And for ALL who fear the Lord, trust in Him!
It is tempting to trust the latest trending shorts or the news of financial hot markets. Instead, God’s word tells us to trust in the LORD.
What is the difference between inanimate objects or trends and a God who has made all that lives and breathes?
Those who create inanimate objects become like them (even AI appears to be living and breathing but is nothing more than a hologram).
God who creates and sustains life is worthy of our trust. His character is steadfast love and faithfulness-aka trustworthy.
Reflecting on the nation of Israel being first (chosen as God’s people to bless the world), we can rejoice at the beauty of this nation. Although their rejection of Jesus Christ as Messiah means salvation for the Gentiles, what will their eventual acceptance of the gospel mean? #goodness-galore
Our job is to praise the Lord and to bless Him from now until forever.
As children of man, we should trust in the creator of mankind. Take time today to speak these words with all sincerity, “I trust you, Lord.”- Teresa #enjoy (I attached 25 pics from my media library below)
Psalm 115: 1-18 (ESV) bold added
To Your Name Give Glory
115 Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory,
for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness!
2 Why should the nations say,
“Where is their God?”
3 Our God is in the heavens;
he does all that he pleases.
4 Their idols are silver and gold,
the work of human hands.
5 They have mouths, but do not speak;
eyes, but do not see.
6 They have ears, but do not hear;
noses, but do not smell.
7 They have hands, but do not feel;
feet, but do not walk;
and they do not make a sound in their throat.
8 Those who make them become like them;
so do all who trust in them.
9 O Israel,[a] trust in the Lord!
He is their help and their shield.
10 O house of Aaron, trust in the Lord!
He is their help and their shield.
11 You who fear the Lord, trust in the Lord!
He is their help and their shield.
12 The Lord has remembered us; he will bless us;
he will bless the house of Israel;
he will bless the house of Aaron;
13 he will bless those who fear the Lord,
both the small and the great.
14 May the Lord give you increase,
you and your children!
15 May you be blessed by the Lord,
who made heaven and earth!
16 The heavens are the Lord’s heavens,
but the earth he has given to the children of man.
17 The dead do not praise the Lord,
nor do any who go down into silence.
18 But we will bless the Lord
from this time forth and forevermore.
Praise the Lord!
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- Psalm 115:9 Masoretic Text; many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Syriac O house of Israel
Romans 11:25-36 (NIV)
I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in, 26 and in this way all Israel will be saved. As it is written:
“The deliverer will come from Zion;
he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.
27 And this is my covenant with them
when I take away their sins.”
28 As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies for your sake; but as far as election is concerned, they are loved on account of the patriarchs, 29 for God’s gifts and his call are irrevocable. 30 Just as you who were at one time disobedient to God have now received mercy as a result of their disobedience, 31 so they too have now become disobedient in order that they too may now receive mercy as a result of God’s mercy to you. 32 For God has bound everyone over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all.
Doxology
33 Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God!
How unsearchable his judgments,
and his paths beyond tracing out!
34 “Who has known the mind of the Lord?
Or who has been his counselor?”
35 “Who has ever given to God,
that God should repay them?”
36 For from him and through him and for him are all things.
To him be the glory forever! Amen.