RR Psalm 53:3(2) Part 2
Shalom,
Psalm 53:3 God looks down from the heavens on the children of men, to see if anyone understands, who seeks after God.
The Hebrew word is “Shaqaf” meaning to look down from a lofty position. In the physical realm, this is looking down from a watchtower or other elevated place. In the spiritual realm (like in our subject verse) this “looking down” is from a position of higher authority.
Isaiah 55:8 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways.” It is a declaration of Adonai. 9 “For as the heavens are higher than earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts….12 “Yes, you will go out with joy and be led forth with peace. The mountains and the hills will break forth before you singing, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH0XbpNY2g8
Elohim is searching the earth to see who has the understanding (of the high value) of seeking after God. Jeremiah confirmed Moses’ prophecy. Jeremiah 29:13 You will seek Me and find Me, when you will search for Me with all your heart. Deuteronomy 4:29 But from there you will seek Adonai your God and you will find Him, when you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
However; both men (and others as well, who are not mentioned here) prophesy this time of heart connection to God comes to us only after a season of rebellion. Deuteronomy 4:25 “When you father children and children’s children and have been in the land a long time, and you act corruptly… and do evil in the sight of Adonai your God, provoking Him to anger, 26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that you will certainly be carried off quickly from the land you are crossing over the Jordan to possess. You will not prolong your days on it, for you will certainly be destroyed.
Here is an invitation… why not skip the rebellion and use the wisdom God offers us?… Paul spoke this in Athens, addressing all the nations created by God… Acts 17:27 They were to search for Him, and perhaps grope around for Him and find Him. Yet He is not far from each one of us. Psalm 145:18 Adonai is near to all who call on Him, to all who call on Him in truth.
Let’s end this today by backing up just one verse from where we began in Isaiah. Isaiah 55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous one his thoughts, let him return to Adonai, so He may have compassion on him, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon. Shalom shalom.
Day 44 of the Omer
Daily Bread, reading plan by Lars Enarson (https://www.thewatchman.org/)
Mon18-May-20262nd of Sivan, 5786
De 15:1-18Jer 13Job 33Ro 13 (Mk 1)
Psalm 53:3 God looks down from the heavens on the children of men, to see if anyone understands, who seeks after God.
The Hebrew word is “Shaqaf” meaning to look down from a lofty position. In the physical realm, this is looking down from a watchtower or other elevated place. In the spiritual realm (like in our subject verse) this “looking down” is from a position of higher authority.
Isaiah 55:8 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways.” It is a declaration of Adonai. 9 “For as the heavens are higher than earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts….12 “Yes, you will go out with joy and be led forth with peace. The mountains and the hills will break forth before you singing, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH0XbpNY2g8
Elohim is searching the earth to see who has the understanding (of the high value) of seeking after God. Jeremiah confirmed Moses’ prophecy. Jeremiah 29:13 You will seek Me and find Me, when you will search for Me with all your heart. Deuteronomy 4:29 But from there you will seek Adonai your God and you will find Him, when you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
However; both men (and others as well, who are not mentioned here) prophesy this time of heart connection to God comes to us only after a season of rebellion. Deuteronomy 4:25 “When you father children and children’s children and have been in the land a long time, and you act corruptly… and do evil in the sight of Adonai your God, provoking Him to anger, 26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that you will certainly be carried off quickly from the land you are crossing over the Jordan to possess. You will not prolong your days on it, for you will certainly be destroyed.
Here is an invitation… why not skip the rebellion and use the wisdom God offers us?… Paul spoke this in Athens, addressing all the nations created by God… Acts 17:27 They were to search for Him, and perhaps grope around for Him and find Him. Yet He is not far from each one of us. Psalm 145:18 Adonai is near to all who call on Him, to all who call on Him in truth.
Let’s end this today by backing up just one verse from where we began in Isaiah. Isaiah 55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous one his thoughts, let him return to Adonai, so He may have compassion on him, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon. Shalom shalom.
Day 44 of the Omer
Daily Bread, reading plan by Lars Enarson (https://www.thewatchman.org/)
Mon18-May-20262nd of Sivan, 5786
De 15:1-18Jer 13Job 33Ro 13 (Mk 1)
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