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29/02/2024

What is your thought on this passage?

Hope deferred make the heart to sick: but when the desire is fulfill, it is a tree of life.”
Proverbs 13:12 .

What is mean exactly by the “hope deferred” is not mentioned here. It is general. What is mean is that the time during which someone cherishes his hope, is being stretched, that the fulfillment is advanced again and again. One may think that the fulfillment happens now, but it appears not to be. Each time it is a disappointment or even disillusionment. Such a hope makes the heart sick. It makes a person lose heart and languishing by it.
“A desire fulfilled” is something else than a certain hope with which a person ends up disappointed again and again. The desire fulfilled speaks of a desire for something which God has promised and which He also fulfills. Such a fulfilled desire “is a tree of life”. It does not make the heart sick, but makes it to be filled of fellowship with God, which is eternal and gives full satisfaction.
The deepest desire of the righteous is the desire for the coming of Christ. When He comes, that desire will be fulfilled. Simeon has experienced His coming (Lk 2:25-30; Hag 2:7). All believers will experience His coming. They persistently look forward to it. A desire deferred is therefore totally different from a persistent hope for something.
The disciples were aggrieved or painfully impacted in their hearts, because their hope for the kingdom of the Messiah was deferred. The two disciples going to Emmaus were aggrieved or sad in their hearts because of a disappointed hope. We are disappointed in our hope when we base our hope on our own desires and not on what God’s Word says.

29/02/2024

Hope deferred make the heart to sick: but when the desire is fulfill, it is a tree of life.”
Proverbs 13:12 .

What is mean exactly by the “hope deferred” is not mentioned here. It is general. What is mean is that the time during which someone cherishes his hope, is being stretched, that the fulfillment is advanced again and again. One may think that the fulfillment happens now, but it appears not to be. Each time it is a disappointment or even disillusionment. Such a hope makes the heart sick. It makes a person lose heart and languishing by it.
“A desire fulfilled” is something else than a certain hope with which a person ends up disappointed again and again. The desire fulfilled speaks of a desire for something which God has promised and which He also fulfills. Such a fulfilled desire “is a tree of life”. It does not make the heart sick, but makes it to be filled of fellowship with God, which is eternal and gives full satisfaction.
The deepest desire of the righteous is the desire for the coming of Christ. When He comes, that desire will be fulfilled. Simeon has experienced His coming (Lk 2:25-30; Hag 2:7). All believers will experience His coming. They persistently look forward to it. A desire deferred is therefore totally different from a persistent hope for something.
The disciples were aggrieved or painfully impacted in their hearts, because their hope for the kingdom of the Messiah was deferred. The two disciples going to Emmaus were aggrieved or sad in their hearts because of a disappointed hope. We are disappointed in our hope when we base our hope on our own desires and not on what God’s Word says.

29/02/2024

Jeremiah’s Plea for Justification

Jeremiah knows where to find healing: with the LORD (Jer 17:14). He also knows where salvation can be found: also with the LORD. It is about support and protection. He wants to be healed of his doubts and despondency and tendency to give up his service. He is wounded in his spirit by the constant opposition and rejection of his preaching. The salvation he asks for has to do with being rescued from the power of enemies and their plans to kill him and be preserved for God’s kingdom. From this prayer his trust in the LORD speaks, for he knows that only the LORD can do what he asks (cf. 2Tim 4:18).
He bases his prayer on the fact that the LORD is his praise. His sickness and misery seem to be caused by the mockery of the people that God’s Word, which he has been preaching for twenty-two years now, is not coming true after all (Jer 17:15; cf. Isa 5:19; Amos 6:3). That can start to gnaw, because scoffers don’t know when to stop. And it will continue for another eighteen years. The false prophets have been right until now, and so have the mockers. Those scoffers have not been stopped from speaking although the word of Jeremiah has come true. Mockers do not know how to stop nor are they persuaded by the clearest evidence of the truth of God’s Word. Mockers will always be there, they are also there today (2Pet 3:3-4).
Jeremiah appeals to his sincerity, that surely he has not done otherwise than the LORD has said to him and that it was in accordance with His heart (Jer 17:16). He has been the shepherd that the LORD has wanted him to be and has gone after Him for that. This means that a shepherd does not have to find the way himself, but is content to follow the great Shepherd of the sheep. We then see the beautiful picture of the great Shepherd with behind Him the following shepherds with behind them again the sheep.
Love for His people has always been His motive in preaching about the coming judgment. There has been no joy in announcing that day of doom. Everything he has spoken, he has spoken in the consciousness of God’s presence. What passed from his lips came from the presence of God and therefore agreed completely with what he heard from the LORD. We also see this with Paul (2Cor 2:17).
Anything may be a terror to Jeremiah and anyone may be against him, provided it is not the LORD (Jer 17:17; cf. Job 6:4). It would be a terror to him if the LORD would forsake him or hid Himself from him. That would be intolerable. After all, the LORD is his refuge in a day of disaster.
He asks that what he does not wish for himself will happen to his persecutors: shame and dismay (Jer 17:18). His persecutors do not reckon with the LORD, he does. Therefore, he asks for God’s intervention, that He judge them. This fits the time in which Jeremiah lives. The double severance Jeremiah asks for means so much as asking that the LORD root out the enemies and that the prospect of that already confuses them and renders them powerless.

11/09/2023

Have Compassion for the Sheep

Matthew 9:35-38 Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness.

36 When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.
37 Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.
38 Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field."
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The blasphemous opposition of the religious leaders does not in any way interrupt the blessed course of the Lord. He doesn’t skip a town or village. Everywhere He goes, He teaches, proclaims, and heals. He does so with great concern and compassion because He knows how much these sheep of God have been exposed to dangers, to leaders without mercy. He sees them as distressed and dispirited sheep without a shepherd, at the mercy of cruel wolves (Eze 34:1-6 2 "Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy and say to them: 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who only take care of themselves! Should not shepherds take care of the flock?
3 You eat the curds, clothe yourselves with the wool and slaughter the choice animals, but you do not take care of the flock.
4 You have not strengthened the weak or healed the sick or bound up the injured. You have not brought back the strays or searched for the lost. You have ruled them harshly and brutally.
5 So they were scattered because there was no shepherd, and when they were scattered they became food for all the wild animals.
6 My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. They were scattered over ). At the same time, He sees them as a plentiful harvest. Who is willing to go to these sheep to tell them about the true Shepherd? There were few of them then, and today is no different. But there is a way out: prayer.
The Lord says to His disciples – and to us if we confess to be His disciples – that they must pray to “the Lord of the harvest” that He will send workers into His harvest. The Lord of the harvest is the Lord Jesus Himself. We see that directly in the next chapter (Mt 10:5). Praying for it is one thing, making ourselves available to be sent out is another. If we pray for it, there is a good chance that He will send us out. Not the need, but only the Lord determines whether we should go, where we should go and when, and what we should do.

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01/09/2023

Be Fullness in Christ

The enemy is tirelessly busy attacking the nature of believers, namely the nature of their faith. He wants to inflict as much damage as possible upon their faith in God. He will try to make you doubt certain truths of the faith. For example, he tries to persuade you that God did not mean all that. If you reject his arguments and repel his attacks, he will try a different way. When he does not succeed in taking away something from you he will try to add something to your faith. He offers some appealing motivation. Do you want to believe more and better, and deepen your faith? Then he has the exact solution for it.
Col 2:6. To avoid yielding to this danger, the enrichment by additions to your faith, Paul takes you back to the beginning. You have received Christ and accepted Him; is there anything else that you accepted besides Christ? Indeed you were not saved – nor were the Colossians – by the Jewish or Greek wisdom or by Christ plus additional wisdom. It is clear and must be strongly emphasized that Christ is sufficient for our salvation. He is also sufficient for your walk as a Christian. All that is required for salvation comes from Him.
Further you have accepted Him as “the Lord”. You have accepted Him as the absolute sovereign Ruler of your life. There were no negotiations. As it was when you first accepted Him, it should be so even today.
“So walk in Him” is a commandment and that means other ways of walk are forbidden. Walk in Him means that you put into practice what you know of Him, and that you are doing His will in your life.
Col 2:7. You draw your life force from Him, and not from any philosophy, because you are “rooted … in Him”. That means you are standing firm like a tree that withstands the storms. Rooted in Him reminds you of what happened at your conversion. Christ is presented here as the soil in which you were rooted at your conversion. From then on you get your entire food from Him. Therefore it is important to be firm

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