"A Jealous Love Of YOUR House Devours Me, Draws Insults From Those Who Insult YOU."

Hi! and happy good weekend to all of us, GUYS.  Our "food for the soul" this Saturday:

THE GOOD NEWS (30 July 2016)

"Rescue me, lest I sink in the mire; deliver me from the storm and the deep waters.

Let not the flood engulf me, nor the deep suck me in, let not the pit close its mouth upon me.

In YOUR mercy, O LORD, give me a good answer; in YOUR great compassion, turn to me.

Hide not YOUR face from YOUR servant; answer me at once for I am in distress.

Come and rescue me; set me free from my enemies.

YOU know the disgrace I suffer, and YOU know my oppressors and my humiliations.

Dishonor has driven me to despair; I looked for sympathy and there was none, for comforters and there was no one.

They gave me poison for food and vinegar to drink.

May snares be set for them in their banquets and traps in their sacred feasts.

May their eyes grow dim, so that they will not see; may their loins be stricken with palsy.

Pour out YOUR fury upon them, and let YOUR burning anger overtake them.

Make their camp desolate; may no one dwell in their tents,

for they persecute the one YOU have wounded, and increased the pain of the one YOU have struck.

Charge them with crime upon crime, and do not acquit them.

Blot them out of the book of life, and do not enroll them among the upright.

But I myself am humbled and wounded; YOUR salvation, O GOD, will lift me up.

I will praise the name of GOD in song; I will glorify HIM with thanksgiving.

This will please the LORD more than an ox or a bull with horns and divided hoofs.

Let the lowly witness this and be glad.  You who seek GOD, may your hearts be revived.

For the LORD hears the needy and does not despise those in captivity."

- Psalm 69:15-34

JESUS Was Arrested And Judged

(The prayer of the believer who, no doubt, would be less target of mockery and affront from his circle if he were not known as a Christian.  A jealous love of YOUR house devours me, draws insults from those who insult YOU [see John 2:17].  Let us not think too quickly that if we are persecuted, it is because we are believers; and yet JESUS said that must be.  Humiliation - often justified - will accompany the graces and the glory which GOD gives HIS children [2 Corinthians 4:7].

GOD's servant almost submerged by the waters of suffering and death calls to the LORD for help.  CHRIST has applied to HIMSELF several terms of this prayer.  After having been saved from death, HE will be the happiness of all who seek GOD.)

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