The title to my journal entries is usually based on the subject matter in the Word portion. However, in this case, it is based on what I wrote in the Personal section instead.
Worship: To God Be the Glory
1 To God be the glory, great things he has
done;
so loved he the world that he gave us his Son,
who yielded his life an atonement for sin,
and opened the lifegate that we may go in.
Refrain:
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord; let the earth
hear his voice!
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord; let the
people rejoice!
O come to the Father through Jesus the Son,
and give him the glory; great things he has
done.
2 O perfect redemption, the purchase of blood,
to every believer the promise of God;
the vilest offender who truly believes,
that moment from Jesus a pardon receives.
Refrain
3 Great things he has taught us, great things
he has done,
and great our rejoicing through Jesus the Son;
but purer and higher and greater will be
our wonder, our gladness, when Jesus we see.
Refrain
Psalter Hymnal, (Gray)
Personal:
Yesterday
all my work was lost. I’m not sure why. Earlier that day, I had prayed about
pride. Perhaps God was dealing with it by humbling me in the loss of my work.
Maybe I felt it was too much MY work. Now I have finished a new version of the
poem I wrote yesterday. It is longer, and I believe God's hand was in all this.
To God, be the Glory! I don’t have time to dig into the word like I want. I
wrote somewhat extensively yesterday and want to give as much time as I can to
this passage. May God bring to mind what I wrote before and even more! Amen.
Word:
Ps 22:12-18
12 Many bulls
surround me;
strong bulls
of Bashan encircle me.
13 Roaring
lions tearing their prey
open their
mouths wide against me.
14 I am poured
out like water,
and all my
bones are out of joint.
My heart has
turned to wax;
it has
melted away within me.
15 My strength
is dried up like a potsherd,
and my
tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth;
you lay me
in the dust of death.
16 Dogs have
surrounded me;
a band of
evil men has encircled me,
they have
pierced my hands and my feet.
17 I can count
all my bones;
people stare
and gloat over me.
18 They divide
my garments among them
and cast
lots for my clothing.
NIV
Vers. 14-18. They pierced my hands and my feet. –
“Our Lord's passion: -- The great mystery of the passion of our Lord is
one which in all its fullness the human mind cannot comprehend. In what manner
His sufferings purchased our redemption, and what was the precise nature of
those sufferings, are points which we shall in vain attempt to ascertain or
demonstrate by words, however forcible; but that Christ died for our sins, and
that we are redeemed by His precious blood, are amongst the many declarations
of Scripture which place beyond all doubt the truth that the sufferings of
Christ were an atonement for our sin.
I. THE SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST AS MAN. Every kind of pain tortured His body.
The closing scenes of His life mark Him most conspicuously as "the Man of
Sorrows."
II. THE SUFFERINGS WHICH CHRIST ENDURED AS THE SON OF GOD. The sins of
the whole world oppressed Him. Sin when duly felt is a heavy burden. How heavy,
then, must have been the weight of the sins of the whole world! How wondrous is
the outpouring of such love on the part of Jesus and of God! Let the memory of
it guard us from attempting to extenuate sin, or in any way making light of it.
And when we are called upon to suffer, let the example of our Lord's meekness
and humility be that which we shall follow.”
(T. R. Redwar, M. A.)
(from The Biblical Illustrator Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 Ages
Software, Inc. and Biblesoft, Inc.)
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