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Psalm 29:5 – Part 5
Psalm 29:5 The voice of Adonai breaks the cedars. Yes, Adonai shatters cedars of Lebanon.
Did you ever try to break a cedar? When compared to the cedars of Lebanon, our “cedars of Tennessee” are puny. In fact, Lebanon, Tennessee is so named for the stands of cedar trees there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedars_of_Lebanon_State_Park … but I digress.
The cedars of Lebanon were very important in the building of Solomon’s Temple. 1Kings 5:16 So Solomon sent word to Hiram saying:… 20a “So now, command that they cut cedars from Lebanon for me…. 24 So Hiram kept providing Solomon with cedar and cypress timber, as much as he desired. This is a great example of a Jewish king (Solomon) and a Gentile king (Hiram) working together to give glory to God by building His Temple.
May God continue to make a greater whole than the sum of the two parts. Ephesians 2:15b He did this in order to create within Himself one new man from the two groups, making shalom.
This “one new man” is not a homogeneous soup of humanity, but a blending of distinctively different people. Just like male and female are distinctive, but better when together, so too are Jewish and non-Jewish people distinctively different, but better together. Two types of people with a common destiny.
Ephesians 2:11 Therefore, keep in mind that once you—Gentiles in the flesh—were called “uncircumcision” by those called “circumcision” (which is performed on flesh by hand). 12 At that time you were separate from Messiah, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Messiah Yeshua, you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of the Messiah. 14 For He is our shalom, the One who made the two into one and broke down the middle wall of separation.
If the sound of God’s voice can shatter the cedars of Lebanon, don’t you think He can get what he wants by uniting people through love? John 17:22 The glory that You have given to Me I have given to them, that they may be one just as We are one— 23 I in them and You in Me—that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me and loved them as You loved Me. One in Yeshua’s love, shalom shalom.
Daily Bread, reading plan by Lars Enarson (https://www.thewatchman.org/)
Tue20-May-202522nd of Iyar, 5785
Day 31 of the Omer
Le 25:29-38Jer 7Job 28Ro 8 (Mt 26:1-35)
Psalm 29:5 – Part 5
Psalm 29:5 The voice of Adonai breaks the cedars. Yes, Adonai shatters cedars of Lebanon.
Did you ever try to break a cedar? When compared to the cedars of Lebanon, our “cedars of Tennessee” are puny. In fact, Lebanon, Tennessee is so named for the stands of cedar trees there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedars_of_Lebanon_State_Park … but I digress.
The cedars of Lebanon were very important in the building of Solomon’s Temple. 1Kings 5:16 So Solomon sent word to Hiram saying:… 20a “So now, command that they cut cedars from Lebanon for me…. 24 So Hiram kept providing Solomon with cedar and cypress timber, as much as he desired. This is a great example of a Jewish king (Solomon) and a Gentile king (Hiram) working together to give glory to God by building His Temple.
May God continue to make a greater whole than the sum of the two parts. Ephesians 2:15b He did this in order to create within Himself one new man from the two groups, making shalom.
This “one new man” is not a homogeneous soup of humanity, but a blending of distinctively different people. Just like male and female are distinctive, but better when together, so too are Jewish and non-Jewish people distinctively different, but better together. Two types of people with a common destiny.
Ephesians 2:11 Therefore, keep in mind that once you—Gentiles in the flesh—were called “uncircumcision” by those called “circumcision” (which is performed on flesh by hand). 12 At that time you were separate from Messiah, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Messiah Yeshua, you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of the Messiah. 14 For He is our shalom, the One who made the two into one and broke down the middle wall of separation.
If the sound of God’s voice can shatter the cedars of Lebanon, don’t you think He can get what he wants by uniting people through love? John 17:22 The glory that You have given to Me I have given to them, that they may be one just as We are one— 23 I in them and You in Me—that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me and loved them as You loved Me. One in Yeshua’s love, shalom shalom.
Daily Bread, reading plan by Lars Enarson (https://www.thewatchman.org/)
Tue20-May-202522nd of Iyar, 5785
Day 31 of the Omer
Le 25:29-38Jer 7Job 28Ro 8 (Mt 26:1-35)
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