RR Psalm 34:12-15 Part 12
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Psalm 34:12(11) Come, children, listen to me: I will teach you the fear of Adonai. 13(12) Who is the one who delights in life, and loves to see good days? 14(13) Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking treachery. 15(14) Depart from evil and do good. Seek shalom and pursue it.
The Hebrew of verse 15 above says specifically, “Turn (depart) from evil and make (do) good. Require (seek) shalom and chase after (pursue) it.” What follows is a summary of the next paragraph after the Amidah is concluded. It serves as a summary to wrap up the silent devotional. It starts with Psalm 34:14, and concludes with Psalm 60:7 & 108:7 and Psalm 19:15. Here is the prayer in its entirety.
“My God, guard my tongue from evil and my lips from speaking deceit. To those who curse me, let my soul be silent, and let my soul be like dust to everyone. Open my heart to your Torah, then my soul will pursue your commandments. As for all those who design evil against me, speedily nullify their counsel and disrupt their designs. Act for Your names sake; act for Your Right Hand’s sake. Act for Your sanctity’s sake, act for Your Torah’s sake. That Your beloved ones may be given rest; let Your Right Hand save, and respond to me. May what I speak from my mouth and the thoughts of my heart find favor before You, Oh Lord, my Rock, and my Redeemer. May He Who makes peace in high places, make peace for us and upon all Israel. And we all say, ‘Amen.’”
Seek after, no wait, pursue… Shalom. The prize is a life filled with Shalom. Isaiah 26:3 You keep in perfect peace one whose mind is staid on You, because he trusts in You. What is the Hebrew translated as “perfect peace?” “Shalom Shalom.” In Hebrew, this is how we express superlatives, by repeating a word. It means the “Shalom - est” or the most Shalom possible. Except shalom is more than peace (which could be just the absence of strife). Shalom is a state of complete satisfaction, perfect wholeness, lacking nothing.
That perfect perfection is only found in a relationship with the King of kings and Lord of lords. Yeshua said… (John 14:6b) “I am the way.” He is the way of walking (through life). He is the way to perfect wholeness. He is the way to all the fruits of the Ruach (Spirit).
Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Ruach is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control—against such things there is no law.
All that’s left is… Matthew 7:7 “Ask, and it shall be given to you. Seek, and you shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you.
Matthew 6:33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. “All these things” includes the prize, a life of Shalom. Shalom shalom.
Daily Bread, reading plan by Lars Enarson (https://www.thewatchman.org/)
Tue19-Aug 202525th of Av, 5785
De 12:29-13:18[19]Ez 481 Ch 262 Ti 4(Jn 12:20-50)
Psalm 34:12(11) Come, children, listen to me: I will teach you the fear of Adonai. 13(12) Who is the one who delights in life, and loves to see good days? 14(13) Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking treachery. 15(14) Depart from evil and do good. Seek shalom and pursue it.
The Hebrew of verse 15 above says specifically, “Turn (depart) from evil and make (do) good. Require (seek) shalom and chase after (pursue) it.” What follows is a summary of the next paragraph after the Amidah is concluded. It serves as a summary to wrap up the silent devotional. It starts with Psalm 34:14, and concludes with Psalm 60:7 & 108:7 and Psalm 19:15. Here is the prayer in its entirety.
“My God, guard my tongue from evil and my lips from speaking deceit. To those who curse me, let my soul be silent, and let my soul be like dust to everyone. Open my heart to your Torah, then my soul will pursue your commandments. As for all those who design evil against me, speedily nullify their counsel and disrupt their designs. Act for Your names sake; act for Your Right Hand’s sake. Act for Your sanctity’s sake, act for Your Torah’s sake. That Your beloved ones may be given rest; let Your Right Hand save, and respond to me. May what I speak from my mouth and the thoughts of my heart find favor before You, Oh Lord, my Rock, and my Redeemer. May He Who makes peace in high places, make peace for us and upon all Israel. And we all say, ‘Amen.’”
Seek after, no wait, pursue… Shalom. The prize is a life filled with Shalom. Isaiah 26:3 You keep in perfect peace one whose mind is staid on You, because he trusts in You. What is the Hebrew translated as “perfect peace?” “Shalom Shalom.” In Hebrew, this is how we express superlatives, by repeating a word. It means the “Shalom - est” or the most Shalom possible. Except shalom is more than peace (which could be just the absence of strife). Shalom is a state of complete satisfaction, perfect wholeness, lacking nothing.
That perfect perfection is only found in a relationship with the King of kings and Lord of lords. Yeshua said… (John 14:6b) “I am the way.” He is the way of walking (through life). He is the way to perfect wholeness. He is the way to all the fruits of the Ruach (Spirit).
Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Ruach is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control—against such things there is no law.
All that’s left is… Matthew 7:7 “Ask, and it shall be given to you. Seek, and you shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you.
Matthew 6:33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. “All these things” includes the prize, a life of Shalom. Shalom shalom.
Daily Bread, reading plan by Lars Enarson (https://www.thewatchman.org/)
Tue19-Aug 202525th of Av, 5785
De 12:29-13:18[19]Ez 481 Ch 262 Ti 4(Jn 12:20-50)
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