Paul McKenzie

Memory Verse, Sunday, February 22, Psalm 34:7-12 Review

Het: The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.

Tet: O taste and see that the LORD is good: Blessed is the man that trusteth in him.

Yod: O fear the LORD, ye his saints: For there is no want to them that fear him.

Kaph: The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: But that that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.

Lamed: Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD

Mem: What man is he that desireth life, And loveth many days, that he may see good?(KJV)

Statements like these are scoffed at by the world, for they look only existentially, and often see believers lack in this life, at least according to what they consider "lack".

Jesus used this "eternal" speaking as well, when He confronted the woman at the well: "Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." (John 4:13-14)

We see Him in John 6:36 say: "I am the bread of life, whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst."

We see Him say this in John 11:25-26: "I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die."

This whole world system is based on the idea that man must make his own way. They within it have rejected their conscience, given by God through "general revelation", and have followed the first temptation of the devil: "But the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." (Genesis 3:4)

And they did. Before this, they knew just the goodness of God. They naturally obeyed the standards of God, and trusted in His goodness. Then they made their own standards, and became their own "Captain", designing standards that fit their self-centered thinking of what is good and what is evil.

The disaster of the world we have now is the result. Everyone has their own standards of good and evil. Their standards coincide with their own selfish desires and sins, and all seek their own, and war against others who seek their own. Christ teaches us that there is only one Standard, and it is written in the Word of God.

This is not a set of rules, it is a relationship. It is an eternal fellowship with the One who created us, and instilled His standard within us. And believers seek to follow His standard, and put their complete trust, not in their ability, but recognize Who it was that gave them any ability they may have, and use that ability to please Him.

And in doing so, they receive true joy.

Today if you hear His voice, harden not your heart.

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