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Psalm 85 (2)
Dear friends. Have you been sick before? If you have, you will know if someone else had the same sickness at the same time, it is an understanding between you two beyond words. You feel like you need not speak no more.
God doesn't need anything because he is God. We are created with needs. And God can satisfy all our needs. Our food, water, sleep, family can all from him and through him and in him. It could be hard to believe sometimes but it is true. Psalm 85 remembers God's turning away from wrath and impute Jesus' righteousness to us. We always needed his righteousness to live more than we need food and water. It is one thing that we can not live without. God's wrath is not like ours which is temporal, complicated, and selfish. His righteous wrath is eternal, characteristic, personal, internal, and simple. God's righteousness and his wrath are always positive. In other words, it is good for us. Everything that is in God, we are desperately in need of.
However, when we feel pain, we needed more than righteousness and food and water, what do we need then?
We need to know the purpose of it, when does it stop. And it matters to us that we have company. We are not alone. In the beginning, we shared with you that when I have migraines for a while, I got to know more friends who also are suffering from it. We instantly understand each other. I wish no one will experience it. But it is so wonderful to know that I am not alone when I feel painful. But comfort from each other doesn't cure pain per se, only God does. The understanding exists between human beings, less profound between that between Jesus and us. Why? Let think that Jesus had experienced the pain and death on the cross which of course belonged to us. The pain that matters most to us and to the world. The pain we experience humbles us to think how hard it must have been for Christ to suffer and love. It is hard to love. It is hard to understand. However, his understanding of us is BEYOND words. More profound than the understanding we shared with someone who had similar pain with us. But he took OUR pain. It was OURS. When we feel lonely, and we want to seek someone's understanding. His answer is always, "I know exactly. I know. My beloved. You do not need to tell me."
Yes. God created us and through Jesus, he has shared everything with us, except his wrath, the part Jesus took all on himself.
Music credit to Selah Service
Psalm 85
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Dear friends. Have you been sick before? If you have, you will know if someone else had the same sickness at the same time, it is an understanding between you two beyond words. You feel like you need not speak no more.
God doesn't need anything because he is God. We are created with needs. And God can satisfy all our needs. Our food, water, sleep, family can all from him and through him and in him. It could be hard to believe sometimes but it is true. Psalm 85 remembers God's turning away from wrath and impute Jesus' righteousness to us. We always needed his righteousness to live more than we need food and water. It is one thing that we can not live without. God's wrath is not like ours which is temporal, complicated, and selfish. His righteous wrath is eternal, characteristic, personal, internal, and simple. God's righteousness and his wrath are always positive. In other words, it is good for us. Everything that is in God, we are desperately in need of.
However, when we feel pain, we needed more than righteousness and food and water, what do we need then?
We need to know the purpose of it, when does it stop. And it matters to us that we have company. We are not alone. In the beginning, we shared with you that when I have migraines for a while, I got to know more friends who also are suffering from it. We instantly understand each other. I wish no one will experience it. But it is so wonderful to know that I am not alone when I feel painful. But comfort from each other doesn't cure pain per se, only God does. The understanding exists between human beings, less profound between that between Jesus and us. Why? Let think that Jesus had experienced the pain and death on the cross which of course belonged to us. The pain that matters most to us and to the world. The pain we experience humbles us to think how hard it must have been for Christ to suffer and love. It is hard to love. It is hard to understand. However, his understanding of us is BEYOND words. More profound than the understanding we shared with someone who had similar pain with us. But he took OUR pain. It was OURS. When we feel lonely, and we want to seek someone's understanding. His answer is always, "I know exactly. I know. My beloved. You do not need to tell me."
Yes. God created us and through Jesus, he has shared everything with us, except his wrath, the part Jesus took all on himself.
Music credit to Selah Service
Psalm 85
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All rights reserved.