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

The cross…always has its way. It wins by defeating its opponent and imposing its will upon him. It always dominates. It never compromises, never dickers nor confers, never surrenders a point for the sake of peace. It cares not for peace; it cares only to end its opposition as fast as possible. With perfect knowledge of all this, Christ said, “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.” So the cross not only brings Christ’s life to an end, it ends also the first life, the old life, of every one of His true followers. It destroys the old pattern, the Adam pattern, in the believer’s life, and brings it to an end. Then the God who raised Christ from the dead raises the believer and a new life begins. This, and nothing less, is true Christianity… We must do something about the cross, and one of two things only we can do – flee it or die upon it.
A.W. Tozer

Meditation is a middle sort of duty between the word and prayer, and hath respect to both. The word feedeth meditation, and meditation feedeth prayer. These duties must always go hand in hand; meditation must follow hearing and precede prayer. To hear and not to meditate is unfruitful. We may hear and hear, but it is like putting a thing into a bag with holes… It is rashness to pray and not to meditate. What we take in the word we digest by meditation and let out by prayer. These three duties must be ordered that one may not jostle out the other. Men are barren, dry, and sapless in their prayers for want of exercising themselves in holy thoughts.
Thomas Manton

Bible – Afrikaans – Psalms Chapter 32:1-11.

Index: Afrikaans

 

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32:1 ‘n Psalm van Dawid; ‘n onderwysing. Welgeluksalig is hy wie se oortreding vergewe, wie se sonde bedek is.

32:2 Welgeluksalig is die mens aan wie die HERE die ongeregtigheid nie toereken nie en in wie se gees geen bedrog is nie.

32:3 Toe ek geswyg het, het my gebeente uitgeteer in my gebrul die hele dag;

32:4 want u hand was dag en nag swaar op my; my murg het verander soos deur somergloed. Sela.

32:5 My sonde het ek U bekend gemaak, en my ongeregtigheid het ek nie bedek nie. Ek het gesê: Ek wil aan die HERE my oortredinge bely; en U het die ongeregtigheid van my sonde vergewe. Sela.

32:6 Daarom sal elke vrome U aanbid in ‘n tyd as U te vinde is; ja, by ‘n oorstroming van groot waters sal hulle nie aan hom raak nie.

32:7 U is ‘n skuilplek vir my; U bewaar my vir benoudheid; U omring my met vrolike gesange van bevryding. Sela.

32:8 Ek wil jou onderrig en jou leer aangaande die weg wat jy moet gaan; Ek wil raad gee; my oog sal op jou wees.

32:9 Wees nie soos ‘n perd, soos ‘n muilesel wat geen verstand het nie, wat ‘n mens moet tem met toom en teuel as sy tuig, anders kom hy nie naby jou nie.

32:10 Die goddelose het baie smarte, maar hy wat op die HERE vertrou- met goedertierenheid sal Hy hom omring.

32:11 Wees bly in die HERE en juig, o regverdiges! En jubel, alle opregtes van hart!