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Psalm 112
1 Praise ye the Lord. Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord, that delighteth greatly in his commandments.s2 His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed.3 Wealth and riches shall be in his house: and his righteousness endureth for ever.4 Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.5 A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.s
6 Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.7 He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord.8 His heart is established, he shall not be afraid, until he see his desire upon his enemies.9 He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honour.10 The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.
Last of Job
So I finally finished up Job and loved the ending, it was grand and dramatic haha. The Bible is cool man. I have it read to me in the New Living Translation (NLT) and am blessed by the narration. I just loved how I was waiting so many chapters to hear from God because most of the chapters in the middle and towards the end are just Job and his friends going back and forth and then in chapter 38 God shows up with all His might. When I hear that God finally started speaking again, I got so excited. I was telling people that it was like I was watching a superhero’s tv show and the whole episode the hero wasn’t present but in the clutch time of the episode He comes out of nowhere. I loved it and also loved God’s poetic description of Leviathan in the ending chapters. If I ever get a dog, it’ll probably be a husky named Leviathan.
Blessed is an understatement
More Job
So I’m reading through Job and get to chapter 22. It was kind of annoying to read Job and his friends go back and forth, but the cool thing was that it was so relatable to how people of today would speak. It was funny because I saw elements of sarcasm amongst other things that reminded me of the talks and arguments of me and some of my own friends. Another thing that bothered me was the fact that God, Himself didn’t appear to speak in any of the chapters from 5-27, I wanted Him to just come in and tell Job everything that was going on and how he was being tested but I guess that was just me being human and feel sympathy for him and wanting his situation to get better, it may but I don’t know yet because I’m on His last speech in Chapter 27. The dialogue from chapter 4-27 is vitally important though. We’ll see what happens as I read on.
Reading 1 Kings
So I’m reading 1 Kings and Solomon is becoming a great king. First of all he goes to God and offers Him an offering hat is highly uncommon and great. This got the attention of God and when God answered him immediately, Solomon, unlike other kings asked for Wisdom and not long life or wealth or death to all that oppose him. God was pleased that he requested such and gave him wisdom like no other. Along with these things He gave him wealth and riches too because God was so pleased and delighted in his humility. I mean, just look at how he asked: “Now, O LORD my God, you have made me king instead of my father, David, but I am like a little child who doesn’t know his way around. And here I am in the midst of your own chosen people, a nation so great and numerous they cannot be counted! Give me an understanding heart so that I can govern your people well and know the difference between right and wrong. For who by himself is able to govern this great people of yours?” (1 Kings 3:7-9 NLT)
As chapter 3 goes on there is this crazy story about two women fighting over who owns a live baby. I love how King Solomon entertained this:
Some time later two prostitutes came to the king to have an argument settled. “Please, my lord,” one of them began, “this woman and I live in the same house. I gave birth to a baby while she was with me in the house. Three days later this woman also had a baby. We were alone; there were only two of us in the house.
“But her baby died during the night when she rolled over on it. Then she got up in the night and took my son from beside me while I was asleep. She laid her dead child in my arms and took mine to sleep beside her. And in the morning when I tried to nurse my son, he was dead! But when I looked more closely in the morning light, I saw that it wasn’t my son at all.”
Then the other woman interrupted, “It certainly was your son, and the living child is mine.”
“No,” the first woman said, “the living child is mine, and the dead one is yours.” And so they argued back and forth before the king.
Then the king said, “Let’s get the facts straight. Both of you claim the living child is yours, and each says that the dead one belongs to the other. All right, bring me a sword.” So a sword was brought to the king.
Then he said, “Cut the living child in two, and give half to one woman and half to the other!”
Then the woman who was the real mother of the living child, and who loved him very much, cried out, “Oh no, my lord! Give her the child—please do not kill him!”
But the other woman said, “All right, he will be neither yours nor mine; divide him between us!”
Then the king said, “Do not kill the child, but give him to the woman who wants him to live, for she is his mother!” (1 Kings 3:16-27 NLT)
God certainly did bless him with wisdom, in all honesty, how many people would’ve really brought forth a test like that without hearing about it being done already?