“nanny-nanny-boo-boo” Is that in the Greek?
I'm going with Ugaritic on this one.
That whole thing from Isaiah 66 is excellent! Thanks! Reminiscent of the wonderful 57:15. That verse was a part of my growing up in the Episcopal Church.
A nice Dominican custom is that when somebody compliments you on your sermon, you respond, "Praise God!" What a grace it is to long for the Word before whom we are to tremble!
To God be the glory. I have often said that believers need to have the same kind of heart as regards an honest, poor and contrite spirit, as they had when they first were born again - which is an event that results in a manifest change. And which heart i daily need to seek, while growing in wisdom.
David the king said he “behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother,” and as a child one must be, (Mt. 18:3) but “not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.” (1 Corinthians 14:20) And Paul was “serving the Lord with all humility of mind”. (Acts 20:19)
The problem with the institutionalized church, with more form than reality, and which is more alarmed at the pot that boils over than the one that does not even simmer, is not only critically false teachings which such often hold, but even if it does hold to the gospel which disallows gaining eternal life by any merit of works (or that God’s mercy does not “really” require the atonement), it does not preach it in such a way that sinners are convicted of sin, righteousness and judgment, as damned souls destitute of any merit whereby they may escape their just damnation and gain salvation, and so abase themselves as sinners and cast all their faith in the Lord Jesus and His sinless shed blood for salvation.
I often think of Isaiah in cp. 6, whose condition i too much share in heart. In that light one will somewhat understand what “falling short of the glory” means. And as one man said, “I do not think any man could see his sins in the light of the countenance of God and live.” But which makes the need for so great salvation by the great God and Savior realized, and appreciated. Yet how easily it can be to take grace for granted, and not remember the pit from whence one was digged. (Is. 51:1)
Sorry if i should not be doing devotionals here.