Daily Devotion

July 19, 2006

Psalms 103:17-18 But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children; (18) To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.

After pondering the vanity and futility of the days of man (Psalms 103:15-16), let us wonder at the Lord’s perpetual mercy and righteousness. How is it that the intelligent man of today cannot see that without the eternal God that created him his life is doomed to emptiness? The temporal tabernacle of our flesh (2 Corinthians 5:1) incases a soul that is hungry for eternity. To withhold the spirit of God from its eternal destiny and force it to live within the narrow confines of human flesh, is denying the wings of an eagle the freedom of the mountain’s mighty wind by forcing it to live in a cage (John 3:8).

The world stands on the verge of blowing itself to pieces. Many lives are daily shattered by the evils of wars-- religious wars. All sides claim to have an edge on God, but who truly fears Him and His righteousness? Who keeps His covenant and remembers His commandments to do them? They have religiously thrown their silver and their gold at the altar of man’ justice and vengeance, and their political priests have built them the golden calf of enmity with God (Exodus 32:2-4). The Words of God’s covenant of peace tells us, ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it (Numbers 35:33). So much blood has been shed, but Jesus Christ has enough ‘blood’ to cleanse the land.

Come now, all humanity; come arm in arm and heart to heart. Come to the Rock that pours forth the only ‘holy water’ of peace. Come now to the great gates of Zion, come to pay your respects to the One, the only one who has written in His blood the covenant of peace for the world. Come and let Him write in your heart His commandments of love and true righteousness. Let dropping tears of repentance replace missiles; the pricks of a convicted heart replace vengeance, and pure white snow cover offenses. Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect Mat 5:48.

1 Corinthians 6:7 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

Patrick Lumbroso
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