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Monday, 08 June 2009

The All-knowing God

1 Corinthians 2 (New International Version)

1 Corinthians 2

¹When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or superior wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.^[a] ²For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. ³I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling. ⁴My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, ⁵so that your faith might not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power.
Wisdom From the Spirit
⁶We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. ⁷No, we speak of God's secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. ⁸None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. ⁹However, as it is written:
   "No eye has seen,
      no ear has heard,
   no mind has conceived
   what God has prepared for those who love him"^[b]— ¹⁰but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit.
      The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. ¹¹For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. ¹²We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. ¹³This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.^[c] ¹⁴The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. ¹⁵The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man's judgment:
¹⁶"For who has known the mind of the Lord
      that he may instruct him?"^[d] But we have the mind of Christ.

Saturday, 16 May 2009

Psalm 42

Psalm 42
¹    ^[b] As the deer pants for streams of water,
       so my soul pants for you, O God.
² My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
       When can I go and meet with God?
³ My tears have been my food
       day and night,
       while men say to me all day long,
       "Where is your God?"
⁴ These things I remember
       as I pour out my soul:
       how I used to go with the multitude,
       leading the procession to the house of God,
       with shouts of joy and thanksgiving
       among the festive throng.
⁵ Why are you downcast, O my soul?
       Why so disturbed within me?
       Put your hope in God,
       for I will yet praise him,
       my Savior and ⁶ my God.
       My ^[c] soul is downcast within me;
       therefore I will remember you
       from the land of the Jordan,
       the heights of Hermon—from Mount Mizar.
⁷ Deep calls to deep
       in the roar of your waterfalls;
       all your waves and breakers
       have swept over me.
⁸ By day the LORD directs his love,
       at night his song is with me—
       a prayer to the God of my life.
⁹ I say to God my Rock,
       "Why have you forgotten me?
       Why must I go about mourning,
       oppressed by the enemy?"
¹⁰ My bones suffer mortal agony
       as my foes taunt me,
       saying to me all day long,
       "Where is your God?"
¹¹ Why are you downcast, O my soul?
       Why so disturbed within me?
       Put your hope in God,
       for I will yet praise him,
       my Savior and my God.

Tuesday, 12 May 2009

Working night shifts on a slow day

I usually refer to very slow times like tonight as "dead", but the word is not a very appropriate term to use in a hospital. hehe . Anyway, I've been up from my break since 2 am and I'm struggling to keep myself awake. .
I already drank my tea to give me a little bit of a jolt. It's during these quiet times where I get a chance to study/mediate on some songs and the promises of God. Oh, how I miss these times. (Check-out Jeremy Camp's song below, called, "I Will Walk by Faith").
Walk By Faith

by Jeremy Camp (2003)
Will I believe You when you say Your hand will guide my every way?
Will I receive the words You say every moment of every day?

Help me to RID my endless fears. You've been so faithful for all my years.
With the one breath You make me new.Your grace covers all I do.
Well I will walk by faith even when I cannot see;
because this broken road prepares Your will for me.
Well I'm broken- but I still see Your face
Well You've spoken- pouring Your words of grace.
Well I will walk by faith even when I cannot see;
because this broken road prepares Your will for me.
Hallelujah!