Happy Birthday Charles Wesley!

Every day this year I have been looking at different hymns from the book Near To The Heart Of God by Robert J. Morgan. It has been so wonderful to have a song for each day. This book has been encouraging and very interesting to have small glimpses into the lives of hymn authors and composers. Today's meditation was Rejoice The Lord Is King

Near to the Heart of God

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Rightly Dividing The Word of Truth

Sometimes reading the Bible can be confusing. As I was looking at what Scripture would be talked about in Sunday School, I realized I didn't know as much as I thought! Thankfully there are resources and people in my life that can help me. Here are the Scriptures I looked at tonight and a free resource from Dr. David Jeremiah.

Matthew 7      Romans 2

James 1:22 (NKJV)

²² But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 

Glory, honor, and peace are within your reach, if you will accept the reconciliation offered you in Christ, which will bring you into at-one-ment with God; and if you will live to do your Heavenly Father’s will.
-F.B. Meyer

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Grief

Grief is ugly. I have been struggling with my sadness. I really have no words right now, but feel writing a little something is better for my soul instead of keeping it all in. I miss my brother-in-law. Christmas will be hard.

Psalm 8

New King James Version (NKJV)

The Glory of the Lord in Creation

To the Chief Musician. On the instrument of Gath.^[a] A Psalm of David.

8 O Lord, our Lord,
How excellent is Your name in all the earth,
Who have set Your glory above the heavens!

² Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants
You have ordained strength,
Because of Your enemies,
That You may silence the enemy and the avenger.

³ When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have ordained,
⁴ What is man that You are mindful of him,
And the son of man that You visit him?
⁵ For You have made him a little lower than the angels,^[b]
And You have crowned him with glory and honor.

⁶ You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands;
You have put all things under his feet,
⁷ All sheep and oxen—
Even the beasts of the field,
⁸ The birds of the air,
And the fish of the sea
That pass through the paths of the seas.

⁹ O Lord, our Lord,
How excellent is Your name in all the earth!

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Out Of The Deep I Cry To Thee

1. Out of the deep I cry to thee;
O Lord God, hear my crying:
Incline thy gracious ear to me,
With prayer to thee applying.
For if thou fix thy searching eye
On all sin and iniquity,
Who, Lord, can stand before thee?

2. But love and grace with thee prevail,
O God, our sins forgiving;
The holiest deeds can naught avail
Of all before thee living.
Before thee none can boast him clear;
Therefore must each thy judgment fear,
And live on thy compassion.

3. For this, my hope in God shall rest,
Naught building on my merit;
My heart confides, of him possest,
His goodness stays my spirit.
His precious word assureth me;
My solace, my sure rock is he,
Whereon my soul abideth.

4. And though I wait the livelong night
And till the morn returneth,
My heart undoubting trust his might
Nor in impatience mourneht.
Born of his Spirit, Israel
In the right way thus fareth well,
And on his God reposeth.

5. What though our sins are manifold?
Supreme his mercy reigneth;
No limit can his hand withhold,
Where evil most obtaineth.
He the good Shepherd is alone,
Who Israel will redeema dn won,
Forgiving all transgression.
-Martin Luther

Psalm 130