God is Against Us!
O God, you have rejected us, broken our defenses; you have been angry; oh, restore us. 2 You have made the land to quake; you have torn it open; repair its breaches, for it totters. 3 You have made your people see hard things; you have given us wine to drink that made us stagger. 4 You have set up a banner for those who fear you, that they may flee to it from the bow. Selah 5 That your beloved ones may be delivered, give salvation by your right hand and answer us!
Father in Heaven, your holiness has clashed with our disobedience and the hardness of our hearts. We would rather live in a rebellious mind than submit to your will. With great remorse and shame, we bring ourselves. We confess in a genuinely repentant heart and ask You to forgive and restore us to You.
You’ve learned from king David and Job that we can wander away from You as individuals. When a nation has rejected you and its once religious institutions are now profanity of your name and rejecting Your teachings. Even believed saved by your grace are deceived and wander away further into the sin of disobedience, sexual immorality, murderous passion, and greed. Going as far as casting out the name of Jesus Christ our Savior and the bible as it was a pure mythical story. Oh, my heart grieved at all of this. How have we gone this far in a short time? Where does it stop? O Lord, let Your grace and mercy abound and restore our hearts to You.
God Has Spoken in His Holiness
God has spoken in his holiness: “With exultation, I will divide up Shechem and portion out the Vale of Succoth. 7 Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim is my helmet; Judah is my scepter. 8 Moab is my washbasin; upon Edom, I cast my shoe; over Philistia, I shout in triumph.”
God spoke in his holiness and took for himself a people who are zealous for Him. Always leaving a redeemer through every generation in the hope of salvation for His people. It should be of great assurance, hope, and comfort knowing that God’s grace is at work even today! If you’re saved by His grace and have wandered away from Him, either you haven’t read the Scripture, prayed, believed, or gone to church in a while, repent and turn your face upon Jesus Christ, your Savior.
Who Will Lead Me?
Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom? 10 Have you not rejected us, O God? You do not go forth, O God, with our armies.11 Oh, grant us help against the foe, for vain is the salvation of man! 12 With God we shall do valiantly; it is he who will tread down our foes.
My Beloved Savior, who can bring me closer to You if not God himself? If our faith is doubtful, misguided, complacent, or wondered in an ungodly manner, forgive us and let the Holy Spirit convince us through your word and return to You in the hope of reconciliation. “With God, we shall do valiantly.”
I pray our nations of their wrongdoing and embrace the Christian value we once lived for. If not, return to us quickly, O God!
In 2022, I used the ACTS as a springboard for my prayer to disciple my mind from wandering off. Recently, I’ve journaled and prayed over the first 6 chapters of the book of Romans. What a great reward and spiritual food for the soul! It’s taking me a bit longer because I’ve underlined passages in my Bible, journaled my prayers, and printed a copy for additional note-taking. This is in no way a Bible study. Just searching for God’s beautiful attributes and promises. Teaching me how to live my Christian life to His glory. Here are the four additional main focuses I’m looking for:
- God’s attributes
- His promises
- Our responsibility
- Pray
What attributes of God can you find in Psalm 60? Those are the ones I found.
- Sovereign, wrath, powerful, delivers, holy, provider, protector, redeemer, apply justice.
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