The sacred writer of this psalm is so happy, he explodes with expressions of wonder and gratitude for all that God has done in God’s creation.  The psalmist looks around at his beautiful world and finds God to be the artist.

If you pray this psalm in a way that has you enter into the joy of these words, when you come to your own life, you too will be filled with thanksgiving for all that God has done for you.  Just as the writer of this psalm, make a list of the blessings that you have received.  Even the things that might not seem at first to be blessings, because of something you suffered—even these can become blessings from God because of what we can learn about life and what God is teaching us through these events.   The wonderful thing about learning from God is the feeling of being linked to God that this learning brings!

Psalm 65

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“God, in silence I praise You.”

We follow a reading of the Psalms in numerical order.

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The Persian King, Cyrus, conquered Babylonia, the country that had taken God’s people captive and led them into exile.  God is about to do something wonderful through this foreign king who didn’t even know the God of Israel. Because Cyrus had pity on God’s people who desperately wanted to return to their homeland and to rebuild their temple, Cyrus gave orders that this happen. The Book of Ezra tells all about this. 

   Just imagine: a people who had been away from their homeland for about seventy years, are going to go home!  When we sense the feelings that they must have had, we begin to appreciate the freedom we have to live in our homeland, and to worship God as God wants us to.  May we never take these freedoms for granted, and always be thankful that we are able to pray and worship God as we have been created to do.

Ezra 1

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“My inner house for the Lord”

Tuesdays are dedicated to the Old Testament books of history
and the Hebrew “Writings.”

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All around God’s sacred land were nations who refused to worship the God of Israel. They were so proud that they often mocked God thinking that they were better than God.

In this part of the book of Ezekiel, the prophet has some strong words from God toward these neighboring countries.  He tells how angry God becomes when innocent people are mistreated.  

I think of a group of mothers who got very angry about how people who drive while drunk were killing their children.  They formed a group called Mothers Against Drunk Drivers—MADD.  You know something? There are more people alive today because those mothers got angry and did something positive with their emotions.  Now there are stricter laws when someone is caught drunk driving.  Sometimes we need some of God’s anger to work for justice and fairness that God wants for God’s children.

Think about the times when you are angry.  Are you angry when it’s just about YOU, or are you angry sometimes for the reasons that God is angry in today’s reading? This Godly anger.

Ezekiel 25:1-7

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“Yielding to my God is peace.”

Mondays are dedicated to the reading of the Hebrew Prophets.

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