Looking at the world today, I feel ambivalent...
I still can't believe it! 3 Yr olds in PK? What happened to the childhood dreams. Now, they want to force babies into school? Bleaccch! Before I went to German Class, (Kinder garden), I lived at home with my Mom, who was an EnGlish Teacher, who taught me to read and print. So why couldn't I stay at home with our library(which was vast) and skip 12 years of frog water and pickle soup? What I think it is, is that since NEA has completely failed the kids..."We are on strike, because our wallet is more important than your education!" ( 12 Days to a New You, Day 9 (C) 1982 NMPub)... the Public School System (read "Government Schools, Health, Education, and Welfare, and how Johnny can'rt read and is Branewarshed
into the mediocrity of hestarical revision and media(see 1984-Orwell; "Day 7, 12 Days"- how to beat Big Brother Real Bad).
And, let's pray for our Japanese friends, and that the LORD will protect them fro Nuclear backlash!
Dear Heavenly Father, Lord, though thins seem awfully dark and gloomy, we just trust in The Word Of God(John 1:1; Rev 19:13), knowing that long before there ever was anything, YOU knew all about it, and like the
Israelites who watched as the Egyptians drown in the flooding tides breaking, (Exodus 14:27-15:21), and so, Heavenly Father, LORD, remember
Pharaoh, and Goliath, and the Philistines, and even nasty nosed Hitler, and all those who attack Your People the Jews, and us who seek your Blessing on America, again, and all our loved ones and friends,and heal our land(2 Chron 7:14), In Jesus' Name, Amen, Amen, and Amen.
Now, we come at last to V6, to recap: the KEY to the KJV is Psalm 119:11 (1=A, 19=S,11=K), we avoid sinning against God, by keeping His Word, the Word Of God, Jesus Christ, hid in our heart. Psalm 23:1-The Lord is our Shepherd, Is He? (Go to the cross, Psalm 22)... if He Is, then we'll not be in want. And we'll be one of His sheep. V2-with green pastures, and still waters for our daily bread. V3-as a human being, David saw that his soul was restored. That he was lead in thee paths of righteousness for His Name's sake.V4- Even though David walks through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, "I will fear, no evil" Why? "For Thou art with me, Thy rod and Thy staff, they comfort me." V5-Samuel prepares David a table "in the presence of mine enemies". Samuel anoints he head with oil, declaring him king instead of Saul, and his cup overflows with wine and bread, instead of grass
and water.(I Sam 16:13).
Before we go to where David is, and was, and shall be-forever, let's just make a couple of comments about maturity. Seeing as how David will soon test his ability to be king, by beating the stuffing out of the really big giant, Goliath, whilst still just a ruddy boy... When I turned 18, in 1963, I was old enough to drink, old enough to kill or be killed (there was a draft on then), but not old enough to vote, till I turned 21,a year after I'd been in Viet Nam. Now, you can vote at 18, but you can't drink till you're 21! Doesn't that seem kind of backwards? Just sayin'
V6=Faith, "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me, all the days of my life. And I will dwell in the House of the Lord-forever." Since Jesus knows His sheep, and they know Him, everyplace they go, since He never leaves them, nor fore sakes them... where the Lord Is, the House of the Lord, not built with hands, also Is, forever.
Let's pray...
Here i am, Lord, use me
The world, it did abuse me
The world, it did refuse
And drove me from its coast
Here i am, Lord, take me
Refresh me, and rewake me
Remold me and remake me
Refill me with Thy Holy Ghost.
In Jesus' Name,
Amen, Amen, and Amen
mjp
the Word Of God, hid in mine heart
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