The Rock
“Be the rock of your kids,” I am reading in the “WHANAU PACK Tools for Families and parents with Teenagers.”
In order to do that I must know myself where I stand.
David knew where he was standing. In Psalm 40:2 he says, “He [the LORD] set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand.”
Do you know the “firm place to stand?”
“Any good news?” asked someone who knows me, when he saw me reading the newspaper in one of the coffee shops here in town today. “For Good News we must read the Bible,” was my reply.
That’s from memory how the conversation went.
In the paper I was reading about drink driving and theft. I remember a business man telling that a worker took money, but it was given back to him.
The Northland Age, Tuesday, May 17, 2016
I am reading also about the role of judges and the police in curbing criminal behaviour and their effectiveness.
What is now the most effectiveness in curbing criminal behaviour?”
The answer is actually on the last page of the newspaper, where we read “God’s Word open for all.” The verse in the paper today is from First Samuel 12:24:
“You also must obey the Lord – you must worship Him with all your heart and remember the Great things He has done for you.”
“Wenn wir nur halb so viel beten wollten, wie wir uns sorgen oder wie wir ueber unsere Noete reden – der Staub des Sorgengeistes waere abgeschuettelt.” – Wilhelm Busch
The divine hand is mighty. Deuteronomy 5:15
A. THE DIVINE HAND IS UPON MEN FOR BLESSING.
In my reading of the BIBLE from cover to cover I noticed today that “the hand of the LORD” is mentioned several times in the book of EZRA.
The divine hand is mighty.”In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” – Genesis 1:1
a. In Ezra 7:6 it says that “the king had granted him everything he asked, for the hand of the LORD his God was on him.”
b. In Ezra 7:9 we read “the gracious hand of his God was on him” on his journey from Babylon to Jerusalem.
c. In Ezra 7:28 Ezra says, “Because the hand of the LORD my God was on me, I took courage and gathered the leading men from Israel to go up with me.”
d. Ezra 8:18 tells us that “because the gracious hand of our God was on us, they brought us Sherebiah, a capable man, from the descendants of Mahli …”
e. In Ezra 8:22 Ezra says, “I was ashamed to ask the king for soldiers and horsemen to protect us from enemies on the road, because we had told the king, ‘The gracious hand of our God is on everyone who looks to him, but his great anger is against all who forsake him.'”
B. THE DIVINE HAND IS UPON MEN FOR CHASTISEMENT AND PUNISHMENT
The divine hand was on Ezra for blessing and on Nehemiah as well.