"Our nation mourns the loss of our men and women in uniform. We will honour them by completing the mission for which they gave their lives, by defeating the terrorists, by advancing the cause of liberty and by laying the foundation of peace for a generation of young Americans," Bush added. G.W.BUSH,MAY 29,2006
Psalms 45:1 To the Chief Musician. Set to "The Lillies." A Contemplation of the sons of Korah. A Song of Love. My heart is overflowing with a good theme; I recite my composition concerning the King; My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
Psalms 45:2 You are fairer than the sons of men; Grace is poured upon Your lips; Therefore God has blessed You forever.
Psalms 45:3 Gird Your sword upon Your thigh, O Mighty One, With Your glory and Your majesty.
Psalms 45:4 And in Your majesty ride prosperously because of truth, humility, and righteousness; And Your right hand shall teach You awesome things.
Psalms 45:5 Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the King's enemies; The peoples fall under You.
Psalms 45:6 Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your kingdom.
Psalms 45:7 You love righteousness and hate wickedness; Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You With the oil of gladness more than Your companions.
Psalms 45:8 All Your garments are scented with myrrh and aloes and cassia, Out of the ivory palaces, by which they have made You glad.
Psalms 45:9 Kings' daughters are among Your honorable women; At Your right hand stands the queen in gold from Ophir.
Psalms 45:10 Listen, O daughter, Consider and incline your ear; Forget your own people also, and your father's house;
Psalms 45:11 So the King will greatly desire your beauty; Because He is your Lord, worship Him.
Psalms 45:12 And the daughter of Tyre will come with a gift; The rich among the people will seek your favor.
Psalms 45:13 The royal daughter is all glorious within the palace; Her clothing is woven with gold.
Psalms 45:14 She shall be brought to the King in robes of many colors; The virgins, her companions who follow her, shall be brought to You.
Psalms 45:15 With gladness and rejoicing they shall be brought; They shall enter the King's palace.
Psalms 45:16 Instead of Your fathers shall be Your sons, Whom You shall make princes in all the earth.
Psalms 45:17 I will make Your name to be remembered in all generations; Therefore the people shall praise You forever and ever. (NKJV)
"Thou hatest wickedness." - Psalm 45:7
"Be ye angry, and sin not." There can hardly be goodness in a man if he be not angry at sin; he who loves truth must hate every false way. How our Lord Jesus hated it when the temptation came! Thrice it assailed him in different forms, but ever he met it with, "Get thee behind me, Satan." He hated it in others; none the less fervently because he showed his hate oftener in tears of pity than in words of rebuke; yet what language could be more stern, more Elijah-like, than the words, "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer." He hated wickedness, so much that he bled to wound it to the heart; he died that it might die; he was buried that he might bury it in his tomb; and he rose that he might for ever trample it beneath his feet. Christ is in the Gospel, and that Gospel is opposed to wickedness in every shape. Wickedness arrays itself in fair garments, and imitates the language of holiness; but the precepts of Jesus, like his famous scourge of small cords, chase it out of the temple, and will not tolerate it in the Church. So, too, in the heart where Jesus reigns, what war there is between Christ and Belial! And when our Redeemer shall come to be our Judge, those thundering words, "Depart, ye cursed" which are, indeed, but a prolongation of his life-teaching concerning sin, shall manifest his abhorrence of iniquity. As warm as is his love to sinners, so hot is his hatred of sin; as perfect as is his righteousness, so complete shall be the destruction of every form of wickedness. O thou glorious champion of right, and destroyer of wrong, for this cause hath God, even thy God, anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
C.H.SPURGEON
GODBLESS ALL WHO HAVE AND ARE SERVING!
VINCIT QUI PATTITUR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!