Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Monday, August 4, 2008
Psalm 69 (Actual)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3LJN1CO0mI
1SAVE ME, O God, for the waters have come up to my neck [they threaten my life].
2I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, where the floods overwhelm me.
3I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched; my eyes fail with waiting [hopefully] for my God.
4Those who hate me without cause are more than the hairs of my head; those who would cut me off and destroy me, being my enemies wrongfully, are many and mighty. I am [forced] to restore what I did not steal.(A)
5O God, You know my folly and blundering; my sins and my guilt are not hidden from You.
6Let not those who wait and hope and look for You, O Lord of hosts, be put to shame through me; let not those who seek and inquire for and require You [as their vital necessity] be brought to confusion and dishonor through me, O God of Israel.
7Because for Your sake I have borne taunt and reproach; confusion and shame have covered my face.
8I have become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to my mother's children.(B)
9For zeal for Your house has eaten me up, and the reproaches and insults of those who reproach and insult You have fallen upon me.(C)
10When I wept and humbled myself with fasting, I was jeered at and humiliated;
11When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword (an object of scorn) to them.
12They who sit in [the city's] gate talk about me, and I am the song of the drunkards.
13But as for me, my prayer is to You, O Lord. At an acceptable and opportune time, O God, in the multitude of Your mercy and the abundance of Your loving-kindness hear me, and in the truth and faithfulness of Your salvation answer me.
14Rescue me out of the mire, and let me not sink; let me be delivered from those who hate me and from out of the deep waters.
15Let not the floodwaters overflow and overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up nor the [dug] pit [with water perhaps in the bottom] close its mouth over me.
16Hear and answer me, O Lord, for Your loving-kindness is sweet and comforting; according to Your plenteous tender mercy and steadfast love turn to me.
17Hide not Your face from Your servant, for I am in distress; O answer me speedily!
18Draw close to me and redeem me; ransom and set me free because of my enemies [lest they glory in my prolonged distress]!
19You know my reproach and my shame and my dishonor; my adversaries are all before You [fully known to You].
20Insults and reproach have broken my heart; I am full of heaviness and I am distressingly sick. I looked for pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.
21They gave me also gall [poisonous and bitter] for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar (a soured wine) to drink.(D)
22Let their own table [with all its abundance and luxury] become a snare to them; and when they are secure in peace [or at their sacrificial feasts, let it become] a trap to them.
23Let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see, and make their loins tremble continually [from terror, dismay, and feebleness].
24Pour out Your indignation upon them, and let the fierceness of Your burning anger catch up with them.
25Let their habitation and their encampment be a desolation; let no one dwell in their tents.(E)
26For they pursue and persecute him whom You have smitten, and they gossip about those whom You have wounded, [adding] to their grief and pain.
27Let one [unforgiven] perverseness and iniquity accumulate upon another for them [in Your book], and let them not come into Your righteousness or be justified and acquitted by You.
28Let them be blotted out of the book of the living and the book of life and not be enrolled among the [uncompromisingly] righteous (those upright and in right standing with God).(F)
29But I am poor, sorrowful, and in pain; let Your salvation, O God, set me up on high.
30I will praise the name of God with a song and will magnify Him with thanksgiving,
31And it will please the Lord better than an ox or a bullock that has horns and hoofs.
32The humble shall see it and be glad; you who seek God, inquiring for and requiring Him [as your first need], let your hearts revive and live!(G)
33For the Lord hears the poor and needy and despises not His prisoners (His miserable and wounded ones).
34Let heaven and earth praise Him, the seas and everything that moves in them.
35For God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah; and [His servants] shall remain and dwell there and have it in their possession;
36The children of His servants shall inherit it, and those who love His name shall dwell in it.
1SAVE ME, O God, for the waters have come up to my neck [they threaten my life].
2I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, where the floods overwhelm me.
3I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched; my eyes fail with waiting [hopefully] for my God.
4Those who hate me without cause are more than the hairs of my head; those who would cut me off and destroy me, being my enemies wrongfully, are many and mighty. I am [forced] to restore what I did not steal.(A)
5O God, You know my folly and blundering; my sins and my guilt are not hidden from You.
6Let not those who wait and hope and look for You, O Lord of hosts, be put to shame through me; let not those who seek and inquire for and require You [as their vital necessity] be brought to confusion and dishonor through me, O God of Israel.
7Because for Your sake I have borne taunt and reproach; confusion and shame have covered my face.
8I have become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to my mother's children.(B)
9For zeal for Your house has eaten me up, and the reproaches and insults of those who reproach and insult You have fallen upon me.(C)
10When I wept and humbled myself with fasting, I was jeered at and humiliated;
11When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword (an object of scorn) to them.
12They who sit in [the city's] gate talk about me, and I am the song of the drunkards.
13But as for me, my prayer is to You, O Lord. At an acceptable and opportune time, O God, in the multitude of Your mercy and the abundance of Your loving-kindness hear me, and in the truth and faithfulness of Your salvation answer me.
14Rescue me out of the mire, and let me not sink; let me be delivered from those who hate me and from out of the deep waters.
15Let not the floodwaters overflow and overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up nor the [dug] pit [with water perhaps in the bottom] close its mouth over me.
16Hear and answer me, O Lord, for Your loving-kindness is sweet and comforting; according to Your plenteous tender mercy and steadfast love turn to me.
17Hide not Your face from Your servant, for I am in distress; O answer me speedily!
18Draw close to me and redeem me; ransom and set me free because of my enemies [lest they glory in my prolonged distress]!
19You know my reproach and my shame and my dishonor; my adversaries are all before You [fully known to You].
20Insults and reproach have broken my heart; I am full of heaviness and I am distressingly sick. I looked for pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.
21They gave me also gall [poisonous and bitter] for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar (a soured wine) to drink.(D)
22Let their own table [with all its abundance and luxury] become a snare to them; and when they are secure in peace [or at their sacrificial feasts, let it become] a trap to them.
23Let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see, and make their loins tremble continually [from terror, dismay, and feebleness].
24Pour out Your indignation upon them, and let the fierceness of Your burning anger catch up with them.
25Let their habitation and their encampment be a desolation; let no one dwell in their tents.(E)
26For they pursue and persecute him whom You have smitten, and they gossip about those whom You have wounded, [adding] to their grief and pain.
27Let one [unforgiven] perverseness and iniquity accumulate upon another for them [in Your book], and let them not come into Your righteousness or be justified and acquitted by You.
28Let them be blotted out of the book of the living and the book of life and not be enrolled among the [uncompromisingly] righteous (those upright and in right standing with God).(F)
29But I am poor, sorrowful, and in pain; let Your salvation, O God, set me up on high.
30I will praise the name of God with a song and will magnify Him with thanksgiving,
31And it will please the Lord better than an ox or a bullock that has horns and hoofs.
32The humble shall see it and be glad; you who seek God, inquiring for and requiring Him [as your first need], let your hearts revive and live!(G)
33For the Lord hears the poor and needy and despises not His prisoners (His miserable and wounded ones).
34Let heaven and earth praise Him, the seas and everything that moves in them.
35For God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah; and [His servants] shall remain and dwell there and have it in their possession;
36The children of His servants shall inherit it, and those who love His name shall dwell in it.
Sunday, August 3, 2008
LETS FIX THIS!
girlfriends and giggles, sunshine and toes,
bare feet and roses, gentle wind blows.
A heart in love spans any length
but a broken spirit saps the strength.
God is good, Jesus best,
God provides, God directs.
PSALM 69(sort of)
Save me I'm Drowning!
I'm breathing water to try and pass out.
I'm tired of calling for help
I'm bored with crying
I praised God for what he gave
and was made out to be a fool.
Drunks look and say
"Ach, forget about love man, just get what you can."
as Christians we say
"God will guide you" "God is growing you with suffering"
"Just focus on Jesus" "Just trust Him and let it go"
People hold their breath when they ask how I am.
My eyes give me away as I lie and say "I'm okay"
We both know I'm not, but we can't change it, so we change the subject.
"What have you been doing?"
I HAVE BEEN BUSY SURVIVING!!!
I had a terrible headache and realised it was because
I literally wasn't BREATHING ENOUGH!!!
My OWN BODY dosen't even CARE enough that it is ALIVE to provide itself with OXYGEN!
It is a daily fight to keep from giving up alltogether.
"Oh, just working. I've been Doing a lot of reading" Is the verbalised answer.
"Good deal, You should really just dig into Jesus."
NO $#!T EINSTIEN!!! WHERE ELSE COULD I POSSIBLY GO!!
I KNOW WHO GOD IS AND I KNOW TURNING ANYWHERE BUT TO HIM IS WORTHLESS!WHO DO THINK LET THIS HAPPEN!!
"Yeah definatly, That's always good." is what I say outloud.
I'm in the word constantly and I am in every study I can invite myself to attend. And Jesus shows up! He really does! He gives me strength. He says he knows the plans he has for me and that they are plans to give me hope and a future. BUT THE PAIN IS STILL THERE AND HE HASN'T TAKEN IT AWAY!
People treat me like I don't know anything about God. as if to say "we're glad you came but, maybe if you knew God like I do, God would make your life better."
If I were okay and you were in my situation you'd want to know God the way I do.
I know that I'm an american and my life is great in comparison to anywhere else in the world. I am spoiled rotten, I am blessed for no reason. I have a great family who loves me and a roof over my head and food to eat every day. But it is rediculous to look at a person who has had his arm ripped out of it's socket and say, "Hey you ungreatfull wretch, just be thankfull you have legs and another arm with fingers on it. some people don't even have those." or "you know just give it time and it will heal" Meanwhile the bleeding armless guy is screaming "MY ARM IS RIPPED OFF! SOMBODY GET A @$!% NEEDLE AND THREAD AND LET'S FIX THIS!!"
bare feet and roses, gentle wind blows.
A heart in love spans any length
but a broken spirit saps the strength.
God is good, Jesus best,
God provides, God directs.
PSALM 69(sort of)
Save me I'm Drowning!
I'm breathing water to try and pass out.
I'm tired of calling for help
I'm bored with crying
I praised God for what he gave
and was made out to be a fool.
Drunks look and say
"Ach, forget about love man, just get what you can."
as Christians we say
"God will guide you" "God is growing you with suffering"
"Just focus on Jesus" "Just trust Him and let it go"
People hold their breath when they ask how I am.
My eyes give me away as I lie and say "I'm okay"
We both know I'm not, but we can't change it, so we change the subject.
"What have you been doing?"
I HAVE BEEN BUSY SURVIVING!!!
I had a terrible headache and realised it was because
I literally wasn't BREATHING ENOUGH!!!
My OWN BODY dosen't even CARE enough that it is ALIVE to provide itself with OXYGEN!
It is a daily fight to keep from giving up alltogether.
"Oh, just working. I've been Doing a lot of reading" Is the verbalised answer.
"Good deal, You should really just dig into Jesus."
NO $#!T EINSTIEN!!! WHERE ELSE COULD I POSSIBLY GO!!
I KNOW WHO GOD IS AND I KNOW TURNING ANYWHERE BUT TO HIM IS WORTHLESS!WHO DO THINK LET THIS HAPPEN!!
"Yeah definatly, That's always good." is what I say outloud.
I'm in the word constantly and I am in every study I can invite myself to attend. And Jesus shows up! He really does! He gives me strength. He says he knows the plans he has for me and that they are plans to give me hope and a future. BUT THE PAIN IS STILL THERE AND HE HASN'T TAKEN IT AWAY!
People treat me like I don't know anything about God. as if to say "we're glad you came but, maybe if you knew God like I do, God would make your life better."
If I were okay and you were in my situation you'd want to know God the way I do.
I know that I'm an american and my life is great in comparison to anywhere else in the world. I am spoiled rotten, I am blessed for no reason. I have a great family who loves me and a roof over my head and food to eat every day. But it is rediculous to look at a person who has had his arm ripped out of it's socket and say, "Hey you ungreatfull wretch, just be thankfull you have legs and another arm with fingers on it. some people don't even have those." or "you know just give it time and it will heal" Meanwhile the bleeding armless guy is screaming "MY ARM IS RIPPED OFF! SOMBODY GET A @$!% NEEDLE AND THREAD AND LET'S FIX THIS!!"
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