#Godsfury

[spiritsoulandbody]

#DailyDevotion Think About Your Mortality Some To Gain Wisdom

#DailyDevotion Think About Your Mortality Some To Gain Wisdom Psalm 90 7Yes, Your anger consumes us; Your fury terrifies us. 8You have set our sins before You, our hidden sins before the light of Your face. Moses on a number of occasions in the wilderness could have written these words. There was the gold calves incident. There were the constant grumblings against the LORD. There were revolts against Moses. People hid corban (things that would have been destroyed because God ordered it, usually booty from war). Of course there were sins people tried to hide and sins we don't even know we have committed. All these things had God's anger consume the Israelites and His fury terrified them. Hopefully, when we sin, we can know God's anger and fury against our sins so we can confess them and look to Him for mercy through Jesus Christ, our LORD. Many in the world reject God, the LORD, the God of the Israelites because they don't want to face His wrath and fury. Because they are terrified by the aspect of God they see revealed in nature and their hearts they reject Him thinking that somehow in doing this, they will escape it, well at least during this lifetime. They do not know the name of the LORD revealed in Ex. 34:6 and made incarnate in our LORD Jesus Christ, “The LORD, the LORD, God, merciful and gracious, slow to get angry, rich in love and faithfulness, 7continuing to show mercy to thousands, forgiving wrong, rebellion, and sin, without treating it as innocent, but disciplining children and children's children to the third and fourth generation for the sins of their fathers.” When we believe in the name of the LORD, we move from fear and terror to faith and love. 9When You pour out Your anger, all our days vanish; we finish our years like a sigh. 10We live as long as 70 years, and if we're strong enough get to be 80. Yet what we are proud of is but toil and trouble; it's gone so quickly and we fly away. 11Who knows how fierce Your anger is? Your fury is as great as the fear due You. 12Teach us to count our days that we learn to be wise. 13How long until You return, O LORD? Have pity on Your servants. Our mortality is lamented here. We would be wise to contemplate it some. We should not put off repenting our sins and turning to God now, today. Life is full of troubles from the moment we are born to the time we die. We should always see our misfortunes as the LORD calling us to repentance and faith. It is His great love for us that He calls us to repent of our sins. We should spend our time trying to please God through faith in Jesus Christ. We await His return so we may be ultimately purified of all sin and enter into His glory. 14In the morning satisfy us with Your mercy; then we'll shout happily and be glad as long as we live. 15Make us glad as many days as You made us suffer, as many years as we've seen misery. 16May Your servants see what you can do, and may Your glory be on our children. 17May the kindness of the Lord our God be upon us; give us success in what we're doing; yes, give us success in what we're doing. They would have had the morning sacrifice which indicated God accepted it and His mercy was upon them. We get up making the sign of the cross and calling upon the name placed upon us in baptism to know we belong to God. We ask these blessings mentioned here to be upon us even as Moses prayed them upon the Israelites. We pray for good days where we are not being disciplined so we may enjoy the goodness of God in our lives. We pray for His kindness to be upon us so we can bear with the troubles of the day. We pray for success in what we are doing, namely, turning from our sins and turning to our LORD Jesus Christ, living out His life in our lives so He may receive the glory and have His glory rest upon us and our children. Heavenly Father, give us a spirit of wisdom that we may rightfully understand our mortality and live our days in holy fear, love and trust in You above all things. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Read the full article

[kathasworld]

Wooden butter churn in the yard in old days from wiki. *orally transmitted story from Upper Valais or Oberwallis. We know of an earthquake induced landslide in Visperthal in 1855 burying a vast area. But this story was available even in 18th century. We assume that same kind of disasters might have occurred prior to that, which remained unrecorded. Under a mountain in the Visperthal, not far from Alt-Tesch, locals believed that an entire village with a church and houses was buried under earth. They had a story to explain: The village was once prosperous. The farmers owned large pastures of land and livestock. Housewives used to leave chunks of frozen butter hung over the fire on their chimneys outside to melt. The village produced plentiful milk and butter and cheese. But some of the villagers were uncharitable.  One day, a farmer's wife stood at the hearth with a kettle of butter. The kettle was just half full of brew. An old man in tattered clothes looking like a farm worker came by and asked her if she would like to give him some butter from her kettle with his food. But the woman was unkind. Rudely she replied, “I need all for myself - cannot give a single drop of it away.” The man turned red in anger. He stood straight, looked at the woman and said, “Had you had given me a little, I would have made your kettle special. It could have always full to the brim and be never empty.” Telling this, he walked his way even before the farm wife blinked her eyes. Neither the woman, nor the villagers had slightest idea about the man. This man was our Lord himself. The village has been cursed since that day. Within a short while, the village was hit by a giant earthquake. Then it was completely covered by a terrible landslide. None of the area survived to be seen by anyone in the world.  Nothing but the head of the church altar, which previously stood high in the church was seen on the ground. A brook which previously flowed under the once mountain village began flowing over it. The small stream winds through the gorge of the rocks even today. #belief #folktale #earthquake #switzerland #vispertal #Oberwallis #sin #godsfury #naturaldisaster #justice #richfarmer https://www.instagram.com/p/Cffo-nmLQQI/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[gxalvin]

#GodFirst✨ Here’s the newest member of the Gx Family #GodsFury she’s a blessing! @generation_x_towing_ @tow_hooker_51 @_pedrito_29 @adony_salazar_23 @henrock23 #GodsPlan #GodsWill #GodsGlory #GodsGrace #GodsJourney (at Generation X Towing) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrTc_45ghmbLOwaVFR2k-cFgDQf3lmRWOvUAkw0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=11c37rnoo7g7h

[spiritsoulandbody]

#DailyDevotion When Our Sin Overwhelms Us Bodily

#DailyDevotion When Our Sin Overwhelms Us Bodily Psalm 38 Lord, don't correct me in Your anger and punish me in Your fury. I'm not sure what episode in David's life would have him writing and praying this psalm. It's far too easy to point to the Bathsheba episode. Some of the physical depictions of David aren't reported at any time. However, there are the seven days after David was accused of adultery and murder, having repented and received the LORD's judgment, he fasted and prayed, trying to change the mind of the Almighty concerning the first-born of David from Bathsheba who the LORD was going to cause to die. Yet, this was to discipline David not to exact His anger on David. Yet, when we are afflicted we may join David in this prayer. Christians often think their ailments, illness, or trial is because of some sin they have committed. Sometimes, we might be right. However, we turn to God as our Father. We don't want the Father to punish us in His wrath. We understand we need to be corrected because if we continue in whatever evil we have been living in, we may be cut off altogether. So we ask Him as David does to not punish or correct us in His anger and fury but rather as a loving Father who punishes us so we may see the severity and seriousness of sins. We want His loving correction so our fleshly mind is put to death and our spirit may live to God. 2Your arrows have gone deep into me, and Your hand presses down on me. 3Because You're angry, there's not a healthy spot in my body; because I've sinned, there's nothing sound in my limbs. Whatever discipline from the LORD David is receiving it is manifested in a very physical way with David. Sin, guilt and shame can have some very physical manifestations in our bodies. Our digestive system gets messed up and we can't eat, or it hurts to do so. Because the stress of our sin weighs upon us, our immune system breaks down and we get ill. Our bodies become weak just as David describes here. We indeed feel the heaviness of the LORD's hand on us. David has begun to recognize his problem but he has not come to the solution to it yet. 4My sins overwhelm me, like a heavy load they burden me down. 5Because I was foolish, my wounds stink and fester. 6I'm twisted and very bowed down. All day I go about mourning. What a horrible thing it is to be burdened with sin, guilt and shame. It reminds me of Ebenezer Scrooge, whose ghostly mentor is encumbered by chains. It horrifies me to think of the souls cast into the Lake of Fire, who only have weeping and grinding of teeth without any hope of it ceasing or lessening over time. If this is how it feels when the LORD is having us experience these things in order to call us to repentance and faith in Him, what can it feel like to know there is no help, no relief, not even Lazarus dipping his finger in water and touching our tongue? Let us join David in this psalm, in this prayer. Let us then confess our sins to God our Father. Let us turn to our LORD Jesus Christ and His cross where our sins, guilt and shame has been laid and trust what we are experiencing in time ends on the cross of Christ and not brought into the world to come. Heavenly Father, when we sin, discipline us according to Your great love and mercy, so way repent and trust in Jesus Christ alone for forgiveness and righteousness. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Read the full article