WEEKLY WRAP-UP FOR 2-27-2016

I Hope you had a chance to click on the previous post to hear other voices speak out against ungodly forces at work in Norway.

If you want to know more about this situation, click on Delight in Truth’s blog in my blogroll. At the moment, his focus is on this problem and you can learn much about it there. It is nice to see the church coming together to fight injustice.

I’ll share two things that I read this week. I hope this helps you in our upside-down world that is not the Christian’s home:

1 Why are the nations in an uproar
And the peoples devising a vain thing?

2
The kings of the earth take their stand
And the rulers take counsel together
Against the Lord and against His Anointed, saying,

3
“Let us tear their fetters apart
And cast away their cords from us!”

4
He who sits in the heavens laughs,
The Lord scoffs at them.

5
Then He will speak to them in His anger
And terrify them in His fury, saying,

6
“But as for Me, I have installed My King
Upon Zion, My holy mountain.”

7
“I will surely tell of the decree of the Lord:
He said to Me, ‘You are My Son,
Today I have begotten You.

8
‘Ask of Me, and I will surely give the nations as Your inheritance,
And the very ends of the earth as Your possession.

9
‘You shall break them with a rod of iron,
You shall shatter them like earthenware.’”

10
Now therefore, O kings, show discernment;
Take warning, O judges of the earth.

11
Worship the Lord with reverence
And rejoice with trembling.

12
Do homage to the Son, that He not become angry, and you perish in the way,
For His wrath may soon be kindled.
How blessed are all who take refuge in Him!

– Psalm 2

And…

1 My son, if you will receive my words
And treasure my commandments within you,

2
Make your ear attentive to wisdom,
Incline your heart to understanding;

3
For if you cry for discernment,
Lift your voice for understanding;

4
If you seek her as silver
And search for her as for hidden treasures;

5
Then you will discern the fear of the Lord
And discover the knowledge of God.

6
For the Lord gives wisdom;
From His mouth come knowledge and understanding.

7
He stores up sound wisdom for the upright;
He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,

8
Guarding the paths of justice,
And He preserves the way of His godly ones.

9
Then you will discern righteousness and justice
And equity and every good course.

10
For wisdom will enter your heart
And knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;

11
Discretion will guard you,
Understanding will watch over you,

12
To deliver you from the way of evil,
From the man who speaks perverse things;

13
From those who leave the paths of uprightness
To walk in the ways of darkness;

14
Who delight in doing evil
And rejoice in the perversity of evil;

15
Whose paths are crooked,
And who are devious in their ways;

16
To deliver you from the strange woman,
From the adulteress who flatters with her words;

17
That leaves the companion of her youth
And forgets the covenant of her God;

18
For her house sinks down to death
And her tracks lead to the dead;

19
None who go to her return again,
Nor do they reach the paths of life.

20
So you will walk in the way of good men
And keep to the paths of the righteous.

21
For the upright will live in the land
And the blameless will remain in it;

22
But the wicked will be cut off from the land
And the treacherous will be uprooted from it.

-Proverbs 2

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