Wednesday... It didn't just happen.

Psalm 16;10 (NLT), "For you will not leave my soul among the dead or allow your holy one to rot in the grave."

Wednesday... It didn't just happen.

We are headed into a weekend of deep emotion. One that we really really love was killed and it didn't just happen. David in Psalm 16:10 (NLT) writes of this happening. He says about God, "For you will not leave my soul among the dead or allow your holy one to rot in the grave."

We read over in the Gospels at the beginning of the New Testament in the Bible of the life of God's Son who came to earth to be our sacrifice so that our soul would not be left among the dead. Jesus came so that we wouldn't have to be buried at death and just left there. But he also shares that Jesus who was going to be killed as a sacrifice for our sins would not have to rot in a grave. David many generations before foretold this and that is what happened.

Now that had to be a God thing. We can guess a lot about our future and we don't know the details unless someone we trust tells us. Yes, we believe that one of God's attributes is that he know what is going to happen. He is omniscient, He is all knowing.

Jesus, God's son didn't rot in a grave. He didn't even spend a night there after being killed on a cross. Even though they sealed the grave and put guards by it, Jesus had other things to do and he wasn't there and when some of his good, good friends came to take care of his body. They didn't need to because he wasn't there.

All through the Old Testament there are verses that foretell what was going to happen from Jesus birth to his death and resurrection and we can read them.

David also tells us in verses 8-9 something that is very encouraging. He writes, "I know the Lord is always with me. I will not be shaken, for he is right beside me. No wonder my heart is glad, and I will rejoice. My body rests in safety." Yes God is not only omniscient, he is also omnipresent. He is everywhere.

So please know that nothing in our lives just happens. You see, God is also sovereign. He may not cause it but he allows it. No matter what it is in our lives. He takes whatever bad that happens and changes the purpose from bad to good.

Yes, God knew that Jesus was going to die. The other side thought they had won but God turned it into the salvation for all if they turn their lives over to him by confessing their sins, accepting his forgiveness and ask him to come to live in their heart.

Now Luke writes in the NT in Acts 13:35-37, "Another psalm explains it more fully: 'You will not allow your Holy One to rot in the grave.' This is not in reference to David, for after David had done the will of God in his generation, he died and was buried with his ancestors, and his body decayed. No, it was a reference to someone else - someone whom God raised and whose body did not decay."

Yes, God let David know that the Holy One would not rot in the grave and it didn't happen.

This is a great week of sorrow and celebration. And it didn't just happen. God had his hand on it. It was in his plan. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

Tuesday... I wonder what would happen if we didn't take the credit?

Nehemiah 6:16b (NLT), "They realized this work had been done with the help of our God." Tuesday... I wonder what would happen if we didn't take the credit? Over in the Old Testament in the book of Nehemiah it tells of a major task that through the leadership of Nehemiah was accomplished. The walls of Jerusalem had been torn down and God had laid it on Nehemiah to build those walls back up. It was definitely an almost impossible task but Nehemiah 6:15-16 says, "So on October 2 the wall was finished - just fifty-two days after we had begun. When our enemies and the surrounding nations heard about it, they were frightened and humiliated. They realized this work had been done with the help of our God." Now, we so many times want to take credit for doing the impossible. It would make such a difference for us. But I wonder what would happen through us if God got the credit? Psalm 96 tells us what we are to do. Verses 2-3 says, "Sing to the LORD; praise his name. ...

Tuesday... We just have trouble listening.

1 Corinthians 13:7 (NLT), "Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance." Tuesday... We just have trouble listening. Over in Jeremiah 25:4 (NLT) it says, "Again and again the LORD has sent you his servants, the prophets, but you have not listened or even paid attention." And Jeremiah went on to tell what was going to happen. There will be consequences if we do not listen to what God says through his Word. Now the Apostle Paul over in 1 Corinthians was having a problem with some professed Christ followers who were having trouble at listening. And we too can have problems at listening. We can think that being a Christ follower means we do a lot of finger pointing and we give up on people who don't do what we say. We can even do that in our families. But Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 13:7 (NLT), "Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance." In verse ...

Thursday... Yet, now this is true.

Colossians 1:22a (NLT), "Yet now he has reconciled you to himself through the death of Christ in his physical body." Thursday... Yet, now this is true. Now Paul a prisoner in Rome is writing a letter to a church in Colossae. And in Colossians 1:21 (MSG) he says, "Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds" The NLT says "This includes you who were once far away from God. You were his enemies, separated by your evil thoughts and actions." And that is where so many in this world live today. They are blowing it and they don't know what to do. Yes, they are hostile in their minds and they are engaging in evil deeds but there is Good News. Now Paul in verses 19-20 sets the stage for an answer to those who don't want to live that way. He says, "For God in all his fullness was pleased to live in Christ, and through him God reconciled everything to himself. He made peace with everything in heaven and earth b...

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