com7fy8 Posted January 2, 2023 Group: Senior Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 41 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 873 Content Per Day: 0.46 Reputation: 520 Days Won: 0 Joined: 02/05/2019 Status: Offline Share Posted January 2, 2023 (edited) "Who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies." (in Psalm 103:4) So, from this I see that God gives us a crown not only as a reward of some status and of power for our own selves, but our crown has God's royal and all-loving authority with power to effect things and people the way Jesus Christ's "lovingkindness and tender mercies" can rule with compassion. This is so better than how I might tend to want to self-righteously judge and control people. Edited January 2, 2023 by com7fy8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mije Posted January 2, 2023 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 0 Topic Count: 22 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 162 Content Per Day: 0.31 Reputation: 95 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/26/2022 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/28/1967 Share Posted January 2, 2023 3 hours ago, com7fy8 said: but our crown has God's royal and all-loving authority with power to effect things and people the way Jesus Christ's "lovingkindness and tender mercies" can rule with compassion. How like God to do that… kind of fits in with the paradox principle @George wrote about in this morning’s Worthy Brief. We get a crown as our reward but it is filled with the ability to serve others. I want that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farouk Posted January 2, 2023 Group: Royal Member Followers: 8 Topic Count: 26 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 6,398 Content Per Day: 12.16 Reputation: 3,269 Days Won: 31 Joined: 11/18/2022 Status: Offline Author Share Posted January 2, 2023 Thanks for the postings, ppl........... The Psalms seem inexhaustible............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David1701 Posted January 2, 2023 Group: Royal Member Followers: 8 Topic Count: 15 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 5,731 Content Per Day: 3.55 Reputation: 3,522 Days Won: 12 Joined: 11/27/2019 Status: Offline Share Posted January 2, 2023 Psalm 42 (KJV) 1 As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. 2 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God? 3 My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God? 4 When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday. 5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance. 6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar. 7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me. 8 Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life. 9 I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? 10 As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God? 11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farouk Posted January 2, 2023 Group: Royal Member Followers: 8 Topic Count: 26 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 6,398 Content Per Day: 12.16 Reputation: 3,269 Days Won: 31 Joined: 11/18/2022 Status: Offline Author Share Posted January 2, 2023 14 minutes ago, David1701 said: Psalm 42 (KJV) 1 As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. 2 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God? 3 My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God? 4 When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday. 5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance. 6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar. 7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me. 8 Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life. 9 I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? 10 As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God? 11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God. @David1701 I remember hearing an Anglican church version of this Psalm being sung. Anglican versions of Psalmody have their own character, different from the Scottish Presbyterian variety. (Each, striking in its way...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David1701 Posted January 2, 2023 Group: Royal Member Followers: 8 Topic Count: 15 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 5,731 Content Per Day: 3.55 Reputation: 3,522 Days Won: 12 Joined: 11/27/2019 Status: Offline Share Posted January 2, 2023 1 hour ago, farouk said: @David1701 I remember hearing an Anglican church version of this Psalm being sung. Anglican versions of Psalmody have their own character, different from the Scottish Presbyterian variety. (Each, striking in its way...) I have sung some metrical Psalms (the Scottish Psaltery), in congregational worship, although not often (I'm not Presbyterian or Anglican). I more often sing hymns or modern Christian songs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farouk Posted January 2, 2023 Group: Royal Member Followers: 8 Topic Count: 26 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 6,398 Content Per Day: 12.16 Reputation: 3,269 Days Won: 31 Joined: 11/18/2022 Status: Offline Author Share Posted January 2, 2023 50 minutes ago, David1701 said: I have sung some metrical Psalms (the Scottish Psaltery), in congregational worship, although not often (I'm not Presbyterian or Anglican). I more often sing hymns or modern Christian songs. You can even get Bible editions with the Metrical Psalms bound in the same volume. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David1701 Posted January 2, 2023 Group: Royal Member Followers: 8 Topic Count: 15 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 5,731 Content Per Day: 3.55 Reputation: 3,522 Days Won: 12 Joined: 11/27/2019 Status: Offline Share Posted January 2, 2023 30 minutes ago, farouk said: You can even get Bible editions with the Metrical Psalms bound in the same volume. I used to have one, many years ago. I miss it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
com7fy8 Posted January 3, 2023 Group: Senior Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 41 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 873 Content Per Day: 0.46 Reputation: 520 Days Won: 0 Joined: 02/05/2019 Status: Offline Share Posted January 3, 2023 8 hours ago, David1701 said: 7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me. This is a quote of Psalm 42:7. To me, this means that we can be in deep sharing and communication with God and each other, with His waves over us . . . protecting us and caring for us, sharing, refreshing. So the waves of this world's troubling and bubbling do not decide how we are and what we do or where our attention goes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farouk Posted January 5, 2023 Group: Royal Member Followers: 8 Topic Count: 26 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 6,398 Content Per Day: 12.16 Reputation: 3,269 Days Won: 31 Joined: 11/18/2022 Status: Offline Author Share Posted January 5, 2023 FYI @mrs. angela ............... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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