Sublime

18 Ah, you who drag iniquity along with cords of falsehood,

But the intellectual and what is called spiritual man in him were slumbering as in an infant. He had been instructed only in that innocent and ineffectual way in which the Catholic priests teach the aborigines, by which the pupil is never educated to the degree of consciousness, but only to the degree of trust and reverence, and a child is not made

Know, then, that the LORD your God is not giving you this good land to occupy because of your righteousness; for you are a stubborn people. 7Remember and do not forget how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness; you have been rebellious against the LORD from the day you came out of the land of Egypt until you came to this place.

Your time on earth is not the complete story of your life. You must wait until heaven for the rest of the chapters. It takes faith to live on earth as a foreigner.

Every third year you shall bring out the full tithe of

Psalm 14 shows up in Paul’s letter to the Romans. David and Paul both say humans aren’t good people; we have nothing to offer God.

For reflection: 2 Chronicles 15:8–15 Authority exercised with humility and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live. —from ”Membership,” The Weight of Glory

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