RR Psalm 51:8 Part 6
Shalom,
Psalm 51:8 Surely You desire truth in the inner being. Make me know wisdom inwardly.
Our verse today starts in Hebrew (transliterated), “Hen-Emet,” meaning, “Behold the truth.” This truth in the “inner being” is a “heart thang” and not merely a mind thing. Truth must be objective. Truth is never subjective. What is truth? That is the question!
Rabbi Trail: Shakespeare’s Hamlet had it wrong. He had to have it wrong! His name isn’t even kosher. He said, “To be or not to be, that is the question.” That’s not the question. Life and death are God ordained. Suicide (a Hamlet option) is a form of rebellion against God’s sovereignty. It is ultimate despair, a permanent, fleshly and willful solution to a set of temporary circumstances. Suicide takes away God’s gift of life prematurely. This is Satan’s plan for your life. God has a better plan. John 10:10 The thief comes only to steal, slaughter, and destroy. I have come that they might have life, and have it abundantly! End RT.
Back to our question, “What is truth?” Yeshua made it part of His passionate John 17 prayer to God, our Father. John 17:17 “Make them holy in the truth. Your word is truth…. 19 And for their sakes I make Myself holy, so that they also may be made holy in truth.”
We understand truth according to God’s revelation. He alone establishes reality. Truth has to be more than anything we say it is. If WE determine what is true, then truth can change. If God determines what is true, truth cannot change. Hebrews 13:8 Yeshua the Messiah is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Yeshua promised us the truth through the giving of the Holy Spirit, which is the ramah word. John 16:13 But when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on His own; but whatever He hears, He will tell you. And He will declare to you the things that are to come.
In our subject verse, we also receive the promise of wisdom. I’ve previously defined wisdom as the ability to use someone else’s experience to your own benefit without suffering through their mistakes. In John 16:13, we are promised wisdom through the Holy Spirit.
Wisdom could also be defined as the ability to apply truth to the benefit of all concerned. 2Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is inspired by God and useful for teaching, for reproof, for restoration, and for training in righteousness, 17 so that the person belonging to God may be capable, fully equipped for every good deed.
Jacob (James) made a promise concerning wisdom… Jacob 1:5 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all without hesitation and without reproach; and it will be given to him. Shalom shalom.
Day 16 of the Omer
Daily Bread, reading plan by Lars Enarson (https://www.thewatchman.org/)
Mon20-Apr-20263rd of Iyar, 5786
Le 16:25-17:7Isa 50Job 81 Pet 5 (Mt 10)
Le 20:8-27Amos 9:7-15Ac 15:12-21
Psalm 51:8 Surely You desire truth in the inner being. Make me know wisdom inwardly.
Our verse today starts in Hebrew (transliterated), “Hen-Emet,” meaning, “Behold the truth.” This truth in the “inner being” is a “heart thang” and not merely a mind thing. Truth must be objective. Truth is never subjective. What is truth? That is the question!
Rabbi Trail: Shakespeare’s Hamlet had it wrong. He had to have it wrong! His name isn’t even kosher. He said, “To be or not to be, that is the question.” That’s not the question. Life and death are God ordained. Suicide (a Hamlet option) is a form of rebellion against God’s sovereignty. It is ultimate despair, a permanent, fleshly and willful solution to a set of temporary circumstances. Suicide takes away God’s gift of life prematurely. This is Satan’s plan for your life. God has a better plan. John 10:10 The thief comes only to steal, slaughter, and destroy. I have come that they might have life, and have it abundantly! End RT.
Back to our question, “What is truth?” Yeshua made it part of His passionate John 17 prayer to God, our Father. John 17:17 “Make them holy in the truth. Your word is truth…. 19 And for their sakes I make Myself holy, so that they also may be made holy in truth.”
We understand truth according to God’s revelation. He alone establishes reality. Truth has to be more than anything we say it is. If WE determine what is true, then truth can change. If God determines what is true, truth cannot change. Hebrews 13:8 Yeshua the Messiah is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Yeshua promised us the truth through the giving of the Holy Spirit, which is the ramah word. John 16:13 But when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on His own; but whatever He hears, He will tell you. And He will declare to you the things that are to come.
In our subject verse, we also receive the promise of wisdom. I’ve previously defined wisdom as the ability to use someone else’s experience to your own benefit without suffering through their mistakes. In John 16:13, we are promised wisdom through the Holy Spirit.
Wisdom could also be defined as the ability to apply truth to the benefit of all concerned. 2Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is inspired by God and useful for teaching, for reproof, for restoration, and for training in righteousness, 17 so that the person belonging to God may be capable, fully equipped for every good deed.
Jacob (James) made a promise concerning wisdom… Jacob 1:5 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all without hesitation and without reproach; and it will be given to him. Shalom shalom.
Day 16 of the Omer
Daily Bread, reading plan by Lars Enarson (https://www.thewatchman.org/)
Mon20-Apr-20263rd of Iyar, 5786
Le 16:25-17:7Isa 50Job 81 Pet 5 (Mt 10)
Le 20:8-27Amos 9:7-15Ac 15:12-21
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