From yesterday's sharing, we learnt that God has His own standard to maintain. Yes, He is gracious, slow to anger and merciful but to those who repent. This is because He cannot go against His very own nature - He is Holy, just as can be seen in 1 Samuel 6:20, "the people of Beth Shemesh asked, “Who can stand in the presence of the Lord, this holy God?". Knowing this, God has to find a solution as to how to allow us, sinners, to be in His Holy Presence. There is ONLY ONE WAY - "He himself bore our sins” in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.” (1 Peter 2:24). How we must be eternally grateful to Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour! Not only that, let us be eager to share Christ as salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.”(Acts 4:12) and nothing impure will ever enter it (heaven) nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s (Jesus) book of life. - Revelation 21:27. https://twitter.com/EstherOngHC
Day 187 - Have Fear of God Read: Psalm 145; Proverbs 6:28-31; Revelation 6; 2 Samuel 15-16 2 Samuel 15 & 16 15:13 A messenger came and told David, “The hearts of the people of Israel are with Absalom.”14 Then David said to all his officials who were with him in Jerusalem, “Come! We must flee, or none of us will escape from Absalom. We must leave immediately, or he will move quickly to overtake us and bring ruin on us and put the city to the sword.” To me, as a parent, it is so sad to note that King David got to run for his life from his own son, Absalom. His own son schemed for 40 years (15:7) to topple his own father - could you believe that? This is our Bible - it will not hide - all the successes and failures of God's people are truthfully reported. Why did King David suffer this? It started with his own sin of adultery with Bathsheba (11:3) Even though God had forgiven him when he sincerely repented by recognising that he sinned against the Lord (12:13), King David nee...
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