RR Psalm 32:8 Part 8
Shalom,
Psalm 32:8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go. I will give counsel—My eye is on you.
Do you know what a “life verse” is? Different folks may assign different meaning to the term. When I use it, I’m talking about a verse that seems to follow me throughout my life. Usually, it is a verse that God gave me in an answer to prayer. Our subject verse is just such a Scripture to me.
Rabbi Trail: It was perhaps February or March of 1986. The Challenger disaster had just happened at the end of January. I had been saved since the late fall of 1982. Let me digress for a moment… An evangelical minded man named Mark Diamond used his influence in the Amway business to invite me to bring my family (all of us were Jewish non-believers) to his Messianic congregation (Ohev Yisrael) in Northern Virginia, to our first service on Yom Kippur morning. We were saved about two months later. End RT.
Now, in March of 1986, I was seeking answers from the Lord. What does the future of my life look like? How will this all turn out? Show me things yet unseen. That was my prayer. In answer to that prayer, I was given this verse from the Lord. Note: when God gives you something, you never forget it. God was speaking to me through this verse. What was He saying? Maybe it is obvious to you, but it wasn’t to me at the time.
After much prayer, I came to understand God was saying that He wasn’t going to show me the future. His plan is to help me take the next step, one step at a time. He concludes with a promise, “My eye is on you.” That’s not God being critical, but His loving attention. Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans that I have in mind for you,” declares Adonai, “plans for shalom and not calamity—to give you a future and a hope.”
This Lord is always watching… 2Chronicles 16:9a For the eyes of Adonai range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose heart keeps covenant with Him. May we all keep covenant with Him and rest in His protecting love. Deuteronomy 7:9 “Know therefore that Adonai your God, He is God—the faithful God who keeps covenant kindness for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His mitzvot.” It hasn’t been 1,000 generations yet since Father Abraham, so we’re good. Shalom shalom.
Daily Bread, reading plan by Lars Enarson (https://www.thewatchman.org/)
Mon14-July 202518th of Tamuz, 5785
Nu 26:5-51Ez 14-15Neh 9Eph 2 (Lk 14)
Psalm 32:8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go. I will give counsel—My eye is on you.
Do you know what a “life verse” is? Different folks may assign different meaning to the term. When I use it, I’m talking about a verse that seems to follow me throughout my life. Usually, it is a verse that God gave me in an answer to prayer. Our subject verse is just such a Scripture to me.
Rabbi Trail: It was perhaps February or March of 1986. The Challenger disaster had just happened at the end of January. I had been saved since the late fall of 1982. Let me digress for a moment… An evangelical minded man named Mark Diamond used his influence in the Amway business to invite me to bring my family (all of us were Jewish non-believers) to his Messianic congregation (Ohev Yisrael) in Northern Virginia, to our first service on Yom Kippur morning. We were saved about two months later. End RT.
Now, in March of 1986, I was seeking answers from the Lord. What does the future of my life look like? How will this all turn out? Show me things yet unseen. That was my prayer. In answer to that prayer, I was given this verse from the Lord. Note: when God gives you something, you never forget it. God was speaking to me through this verse. What was He saying? Maybe it is obvious to you, but it wasn’t to me at the time.
After much prayer, I came to understand God was saying that He wasn’t going to show me the future. His plan is to help me take the next step, one step at a time. He concludes with a promise, “My eye is on you.” That’s not God being critical, but His loving attention. Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans that I have in mind for you,” declares Adonai, “plans for shalom and not calamity—to give you a future and a hope.”
This Lord is always watching… 2Chronicles 16:9a For the eyes of Adonai range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose heart keeps covenant with Him. May we all keep covenant with Him and rest in His protecting love. Deuteronomy 7:9 “Know therefore that Adonai your God, He is God—the faithful God who keeps covenant kindness for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His mitzvot.” It hasn’t been 1,000 generations yet since Father Abraham, so we’re good. Shalom shalom.
Daily Bread, reading plan by Lars Enarson (https://www.thewatchman.org/)
Mon14-July 202518th of Tamuz, 5785
Nu 26:5-51Ez 14-15Neh 9Eph 2 (Lk 14)
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