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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

You are certainly not to order your life according to your feelings. A conscience fixed on feelings becomes unreliable. If you are subject to depression and melancholy, you of all people should not allow your conscience to be informed by your feelings. Despondent feelings will provoke unnecessary doubts and fears in the soul when not kept in check by a well-advised conscience. The conscience must be persuaded by God’s Word, not by your feelings.
John MacArthur

Now I know there are many dangers of striving for excellence. After all, haven’t we learned that Satan will take anything we do for good and seek to bring forth evil. We have been been taught, 2 Corinthians 2:11, to not be “ignorant of his schemes.” I know if we are not careful, a pursuit of excellence can lead to pride whereby we look down on others or desire to draw personal attention to ourselves or seek to be man-pleasers. I know it can lead to a reliance on our own strength and not God’s strength. I know it can lead to misplaced goals that believe the product is more important than the spiritual goals it aims to produce. I know it can lead to misplaced trust that excellence alone can somehow achieve God’s purposes. And I know it can lead to misplaced methods, looking to worldly techniques more than Scripture. I know all of these and now you do as well, but we can’t operate in fear as an excuse to excuse the behavior expected of us from the Lord.
Randy Smith

Bible – Afrikaans – Psalms Chapter 16:1-11.

Index: Afrikaans

 

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16:1 ‘n Gedig van Dawid. Bewaar my, o God, want by U skuil ek.

16:2 Ek het tot die HERE gesê: U is my Here; vir my is daar geen goed bo U nie.

16:3 Maar aangaande die heiliges wat op die aarde is, sê ek: Hulle is die heerlikes in wie al my behae is.

16:4 Die smarte van hulle wat ‘n ander god met gawes vereer, sal menigvuldig wees; ek sal hulle drankoffers van bloed nie uitgiet en hulle name op my lippe nie neem nie.

16:5 Die HERE is die deel van my erfenis en van my beker; U onderhou my lot.

16:6 Die meetsnoere het vir my in lieflike plekke geval, ja, my erfenis is vir my mooi.

16:7 Ek sal die HERE loof wat my raad gegee het; selfs in die nag vermaan my niere my.

16:8 Ek stel die HERE altyddeur voor my; omdat Hy aan my regterhand is, sal ek nie wankel nie.

16:9 Daarom is my hart bly en my eer juig; ook sal my vlees in veiligheid woon;

16:10 want U sal my siel aan die doderyk nie oorgee nie; U sal nie toelaat dat u gunsgenoot verderwing sien nie.

16:11 U sal my die pad van die lewe bekend maak; versadiging van vreugde is voor u aangesig, lieflikhede in u regterhand, vir ewig.