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Benefits – Crowned

Posted in Belief, Benefits, Bible, God's Favor, Mercy, tagged on July 6, 2011| Leave a Comment »

“and forget not all his benefits: … who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;” – Psalm 103:2b,4b

We don’t just have God’s tender mercies and loving kindness, he wants his people to remember we are crowned with them. A crown indicates special selection.

Most people come with a natural desire to be different, special, selected. Some wear funny clothes, do strange acts, give lots of money just for the sense of uniqueness. The desire to be different is God given but it can only be satisfied in Christ.

But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light” – 1st Peter 2:9

Following Christ is the only real alternate lifestyle — all other ways are just variations of this sinful world.

In Christ we have God’s favor, his loving kindness, his tender mercies — these are his benefits, don’t forget it.

– fritz@langgang.com

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Mercy and Truth Meet in Christ

Posted in Mercy, Truth, tagged , on November 28, 2010| Leave a Comment »

“Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. – Psalm 85:10

“Truth” and “Righteousness” don’t naturally lead to “Mercy” and “Peace”.

Truth is, every one of us have done selfish ungodly deeds. Righteousness demands wrongs to be corrected and we don’t have the wherewithal to comply.

We can not bring back the dead, can’t restored ruined reputations, can’t unhurt or put back what we have wasted.

But Christ, Jesus, can and he has. In Christ righteousness and peace “kiss” and make up. He paid for our sin, he can heal the hurt, even take the wrong and work it to every one’s good.

Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ – Romans 5:1

– fritz

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>Prophets in Sackcloth Underwear

Posted in Judgment, Mercy, tagged , on August 8, 2010| Leave a Comment »

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(Isa 20:2) At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.

Most, reading this story about the Old Testament prophet Isaiah, focus on his naked three year walk as an object lesson of God’s coming wrath. This time I noticed the sackcloth underwear.

Sackcloth, known to us as burlap, was a course, scratchy, and uncomfortable material not usually intended for underclothes – except in times of extreme mourning, repentance and crying out to God. Isaiah, that fiery prophet, had been wearing sackcloth!

True men and women of God, like Isaiah, pronounce judgments not in anger or hate but in love, always crying out to God for mercy and grace. Pharisees can’t understand this, but Jesus did,

Mat 9:13 “But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

-fritz

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