in the early days after the disaster at Fukushima, I was grilled into a site, that showed via overhead telemetry, the cesium 137, and strot 90, etc, in the both the water and at the 5000 meter level, and the prevailing winds for a LONG time took it over North America...so there can always be "clusters"...that would be my assumption.
Jeremy speaks well, I woke at 0230 this morning, Bible and coffee, and in the Deep Things of God the Holy Spirit, I felt a form of "release"....meaning "worry" is no longer a part of my heart repose in Messiah.....and it DID NOT 'hurt', that the Portion of the Word, i'm in, is the "ascent" Psalms...i'm writing something, and the Portion is Psalm 120 thru 137.
ALL the Word of God is indeed Precious to me, but there are certain Parts which I clutch to my spirit, Psalm 137 is one: (how i love that Word!)
"By the waters of Babylon,
there we sat down and wept,
when we remembered Zion."....that's just the First Verse.
in verse 8, i exult in this:
"O daughter of Babylon, doomed to be destroyed,
blessed shall he be who repays you
with what you have done to us!"
but then in verse 9, i grieve:
"Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones
and dashes them against the rock!"
sometimes man does such, that's grievous and terrible, I've been of the conviction that all imprecatory prayers BELONG to Jesus.
THEN....and i cant wait, i get to go to Psalm 139, which I LOVE!!!!...this precious is the Foundation of Intimacy...TRUE intimacy with God: (i WANT to post the Whole Psalm, but, should i O Lord?)
yes....lets bury this in our heart and soul and spirit!
O Lord, you have searched me and known me!
You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
you discern my thoughts from afar.
You search out my path and my lying down
and are acquainted with all my ways.
Even before a word is on my tongue,
behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.
You hem me in, behind and before,
and lay your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
it is high; I cannot attain it.
Where shall I go from your Spirit?
Or where shall I flee from your presence?
If I ascend to heaven, you are there!
If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
If I take the wings of the morning
and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
even there your hand shall lead me,
and your right hand shall hold me.
If I say, "Surely the darkness shall cover me,
and the light about me be night,”
even the darkness is not dark to you;
the night is bright as the day,
for darkness is as light with you."
that's the first 12 verses....THEN, the Lord shows His ABUNDANT, steadfast, faithful love for us!! (verses 13 thru 16...BURY THIS in your heart!!!)
"For you formed my inward parts;
you knitted me together in my mother's womb.
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
my soul knows it very well.
My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
in your book were written, every one of them,
the days that were formed for me,
when as yet there was none of them."
then the 17th and 18th Verses, which is how i awoke this morning, Bless His Name!!
"How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
If I would count them, they are more than the sand.
I awake, and I am still with you."
then there's a really DIRE prayer that belongs to Jesus, for He was nailed to the Cross....It belongs to Him...
but then in conclusion, is a prayer, that one should BE VERY CAREFUL to pray, much like Evan Roberts prayer, "Bend me O Lord, Bend me! Bend the Church".......unless your REALLY READY for a Gethsemane experience, don't pray this prayer, until you are ready to JOIN in the Fellowship of His Suffering:
"Search me, O God, and know my heart!
Try me and know my thoughts!
And see if there be any grievous way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting!"
The Lord WILL bring up all the muck and junk in our hearts, and that is never pleasant...its NEEDED, amen...but its not a whopping good time.
Did you notice "in the way"? I've been seeing That in the Psalter, time and time again..."The Way"...Jesus said, "I am the Truth, the Life and The Way". the Early Church was called "The Way"....and in my heart, that's what i call The Body of Christ, This Most Holy Faith......The Way.
not "Christianity"...no. catholics call themselves "Christians"....as do jehovahs, sda's, Mormons, etc etc etc...(this program capitalizes words i NEVER mean to capitalize)
pre 315 AD....there were NO "denominations", there was ONLY "The Way"....then the devil, realizing he couldn't smash "The Way"....smash the Church.....in his foul cunning, thinks, 'i'll "join" it".....and gets into Constantine....and what do we get? the "holy roman church".....
and if anyone wants to bring up Luther? there is a PRIME example of how ONE man can TRASH his ministry....what was one of the last papers he wrote?...could it be "On Jews and Their Lies"?.....thank you Luther (/sarc)
The Way, amen....make it so Lord, amen.