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Posted on 01/04/2025 5:39:07 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska
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Greetings to all at the Canteen!
To all our military men and women, past and present,
THANK YOU
for your service!
Good evening, radu, and a Blessed Lord’s Day to you and yours.
Still cold? It’s 12 here right now.
Psalm 139 is one of the most intimate of the psalms. Such closeness comes through in David’s extensive use of second- and first-person pronouns. John Stott makes this observation in his book Authentic Christianity: “ Psalm 139 is arguably the most radical statement in the Old Testament of God’s personal relationship to the individual. Personal pronouns and possessives occur in the first person (I, me, my) forty-six times and in the second person (you, yours) thirty-two times.” This intimacy prompts the psalmist’s praise (vv. 14, 17-18) and prayers that consider his and God’s enemies (vv. 19-22) and his desire for deeper communion with Him: “Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting” (vv. 23-24).
God truly knows all. But according to an article in The Wall Street Journal, the National Security Agency knows a great deal about us as well through our smartphone data trails. Everyone who owns a cell phone creates “metadata” that leaves a “digital trail.” While each individual crumb of data might seem insignificant, when it’s combined and analyzed, it provides “one of the most powerful investigative tools ever devised.” By tracing our metadata, investigators can pinpoint where we’ve been or where we are at any given moment.
Far more superior than the NSA’s digital trail analysis, David said God knows where we are in relation to Him. In Psalm 139, he addresses a prayer to God, the one who alone can search and examine what’s going on inside of us (v. 1). The psalmist wrote, “Search me, God, and know my heart” (v. 23). He knows everything about us (vv. 2-6), is present everywhere (vv. 7-12), and “created [our] inmost being” (vv. 13-16). His thoughts are higher than our human understanding (vv. 17-18), and He’s even with us as we face our enemies (vv. 19-22).
Because God is all-knowing, ever-present, and all-powerful, He knows exactly where we’ve been, what we’ve been doing, and what we’re made of. But He’s also a loving Father who will help us walk in His ways. Let’s follow Him down the trail of life today.
How does it encourage you to know God truly knows you? How are you walking with Him?
Dear God, thank You for loving me even though You know all about me. Please help me to walk well with You.
Discover how God knows and sees all with this video.
Howdy, Kathy.
BRRRR, it IS cold up there!! PLEASE don’t send that down here! LOL
Cold enough here and it will be for the next week. It’s SUPPOSED to warm up a little next weekend.
Waiting to see if I get rain or icy stuff overnight. There’s a warm front coming up from the SW with a little rain, and that monster that’s wreaking havoc on the mid-west is moving down from the NW. The warm front is SUPPOSED to move up here in time to give us just rain. It needs to get a move on. It’s 31 at the moment.
Hi Everybody!
(((HUGS)))
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Shavua Tov.
Wishing all our Jewish troops, veterans, families, allies, friends, and Canteeners
a peaceful and prosperous week.
Prayers for our troops, veterans, families, allies, friends, and Canteeners
for a safe and peaceful week ahead.
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Keep the Lord’s Day in the Lord’s way.
A blessed Second Sunday after Christmas aka Epiphany Sunday (Westerm) / Sunday before Theophany (New Calendar Orthodox) or Sunday of the Genealogy (Old Calendar Orthodox†) to all!
†Old Calendar Orthodox Christmas is January 7
Good evening, Mayor, and a Blessed Lord’s Day to you and yours.
Thank you for today’s sustenance for body and soul.
Rest and keep warm!
Good evenig, ML...((HUGS))...and a Blessed Lord’s Day and Shavua Tov to you and yours.
Are you and Tippy staying warm?
He Who blessed our forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob - may He bless the fighters of the Israel Defense Force, who stand guard over our land and the cities of our G-d from the border of the Lebanon to the desert of Egypt, and from the Great Sea unto the approach of the Aravah, on the land, in the air, and on the sea.
May HASHEM cause the enemies who rise up against us to be struck down before them. May the Holy One, Blessed is He, preserve and rescue our fighting men from every trouble and distress and from every plague and illness, and may He send blessing and success in their every endeavor.
May He lead our enemies under their sway and may He grant them salvation and crown them with victory. And may there be fulfilled for them the verse: For it is Hashem, your G-d, Who goes with you to battle your enemies for you to save you.
G-d bless and keep your children safe, Alouette.
Good evening, Janey, and Shavua Tov and a Blessed Lord’s Day to you and yours.
Hope your teams are winning.
Howdy, luvie.
How’s it going down there today? Did you get wind with your cooldown?
Sunny but chilly here. Now waiting to see what happens overnight and tomorrow.
Hey there, radu!
No cool-down yet. It’s still 57, which is 6 degrees warmer than the high is supposed to be tomorrow. Not sure if the wind will blow or if it’ll sneak in like last time it turned cold.
I have a feeling that y’all will have it worse than we will. I just hope it doesn’t get as nasty as it is in Kansas and Missouri right now. Hubby’s cousins live in NW Missouri, and they’re getting slammed!
Good evening, luvie, and a Blessed Lord’s Day to you and yours.
Thanks for the hymns.
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