Comments on July 21st One Year Bible ReadingsTypePad2012-07-21T02:53:29ZOne Year Biblehttps://www.oneyearbibleblog.com/tag:typepad.com,2003:https://www.oneyearbibleblog.com/2012/07/july-21st-one-year-bible-readings/comments/atom.xml/Billy commented on 'July 21st One Year Bible Readings'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341c5ebf53ef016768a44c31970b2012-07-21T08:50:46Z2012-07-27T20:42:11ZBillyThanks Mike for all the great images that you provide they really are helpful !! God Bless all the readers...<p>Thanks Mike for all the great images that you provide they really are helpful !! God Bless all the readers and have a great weekend.</p>Vance commented on 'July 21st One Year Bible Readings'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341c5ebf53ef0177437e8146970d2012-07-21T03:10:18Z2012-07-27T20:42:12ZVanceSecond Chronicles chapter 5 verses 13 & 14 are incredible to consider – "The trumpeters and singers performed together in...<p></p>
<p>Second Chronicles chapter 5 verses 13 & 14 are incredible to consider –</p>
<p>"The trumpeters and singers performed together in unison to praise and give thanks to the LORD. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals, and other instruments, they raised their voices and praised the LORD with these words: "He is so good! His faithful love endures forever!"</p>
<p>At that moment a cloud filled the Temple of the LORD. The priests could not continue their work because the glorious presence of the LORD filled the Temple of God."</p>
<p>The KJV renders the last part of verse 14 as: “…for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God.”</p>
<p>This is according to the “Blue Letter Bible”, by which one can see the Hebrew and Greek meanings of words through Strong’s Concordance.</p>
<p>Hebrew: LORD – Y@hovah {yeh-ho-vaw'}</p>
<p>This means: Jehovah = "the existing One"</p>
<p>Hebrew: “glory” –kabowd {kaw-bode'}</p>
<p>The meaning is:</p>
<p>1) glory, honour, glorious,<br />
abundance<br />
a) abundance, riches<br />
b) honour, splendour,<br />
glory<br />
c) honour, dignity<br />
d) honour, reputation<br />
e) honour, reverence,<br />
glory<br />
f) glory</p>
<p>I do not know the source of the quote, but C.S. Lewis defined glory in a way that has always really impressed me, and which truly captures the essence of glory.</p>
<p>He defines glory as that which is “weighty, substance, of true value.” Picture a set of scales, and you are measuring two (2) different things. Gold has more “glory” and has more “substance” than other substances. Thus, the side of the scale, which weighs the gold, is “weighed down”</p>
<p>Think about it!</p>
<p>It is very important to praise the Lord – to set time aside to do this—to offer not just offerings from our substance (possessions) – but our very selves as well.</p>
<p>When we do that, we are following the example of the priests in verse 13: “…they raised their voices and praised the LORD with these words: "He is so good! His faithful love endures forever!"</p>
<p>And when we consistently do that—as a habit—then, we allow the TRUE glory, substance—that which lasts and that which is eternal—to be deposited into our being.</p>
<p>Then, what the Lord promised with an oath in Isaiah 54 will come true: (Amplified Bible)</p>
<p>verse 9<br />
For this is like the days of Noah to Me; as I swore that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth, so have I sworn that I will not be angry with you or rebuke you.</p>
<p>verse 10<br />
For though the mountains should depart and the hills be shaken or removed, yet My love and kindness shall not depart from you, nor shall My covenant of peace and completeness be removed, says the Lord, Who has compassion on you.</p>
<p>If we persistently, consistently offer our possessions and ourselves to the Lord in praise,<br />
then the “riches, abundance, splendor, reputation” and the “weightiness, substance, true lasting value” of God’s character will be deposited into our lives!</p>
<p>Isaiah 54 (Amplified Bible)</p>
<p>verse 17<br />
This [peace, righteousness, security, triumph over opposition] is the heritage of the servants of the Lord<br />
[those in whom the ideal Servant of the Lord is reproduced];<br />
this is the righteousness<br />
or the vindication which<br />
they obtain from Me [this<br />
is that which I impart to<br />
them as their<br />
justification], says the<br />
Lord.</p>
<p>I end with quotes from The Weight of Glory, by C.S. Lewis...</p>
<p>"There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.</p>
<p>Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat.</p>
<p>But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit--immortal horrors or everlasting splendours.</p>
<p>This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of the kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously--no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.</p>
<p>And our charity must be real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinners--no mere tolerance, or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment.</p>
<p>Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses. If he is your Christian neighbour, he is holy in almost the same way, for in him also Christ vere latitat, the glorifier and the glorified, Glory Himself, is truly hidden."</p>
<p>Remember: Christ is us is the CERTAIN, GUARANTEED hope of glory!… and PRAISE increases the substance of GLORY of Jesus IN and THROUGH us !<br />
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