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

We’ve already seen how sin began when God’s command was reduced to a question [Gen. 3:1]. At that moment the most deadly spiritual force was covertly smuggled into the world: the assumption that God’s Word is subject to human judgment.
David Platt

The theological roots of this concept of “vocation” are found in the biblical doctrine of creation and divine sovereignty. We are by God’s creative decree shaped in His image and thus designed to reflect in all our endeavors the purposeful activity of God Himself. All Christians, therefore, should ideally embrace their “work”, however secular and uneventful it may appear, as a calling of God, a responsibility for which they have been uniquely endowed that is designed in its own way to glorify God. One’s “job” or “career” or “occupation” thus has a meaning beyond mere personal fulfillment. “Ministry” is therefore not what the majority of Christians perform as “a discretionary time activity – something done with the few hours that can be squeezed out of the week’s schedule after working, sleeping, homemaking, neighbouring, washing and doing the chores” (Stevens, The Other Six Days, 132). It is, rather, all of life when discharged in faith.
Sam Storms

Bible – Afrikaans – Psalms Chapter 81:1-17.

Index: Afrikaans

 

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81:1 Vir die musiekleier; op die Gittiet. ‘n Psalm van Asaf.

81:2 Jubel tot eer van God, ons sterkte! Juig tot eer van die God van Jakob!

81:3 Hef aan ‘n lied en laat die tamboeryn klink, die lieflike siter saam met die harp.

81:4 Blaas die basuin op nuwemaan, op volmaan vir ons feesdag.

81:5 Want dit is ‘n insetting vir Israel, ‘n verordening van die God van Jakob.

81:6 Hy het dit ingestel as getuienis in Josef toe Hy uitgetrek het teen Egipteland. ‘n Taal wat ek nie geken het nie, het ek gehoor:

81:7 Ek het sy skouer bevry van die las, sy hande het die mandjie gelos.

81:8 In die nood het jy geroep, en Ek het jou uitgered; Ek het jou geantwoord in die skuilplek van die donder; Ek het jou getoets by die waters van Mériba. Sela.

81:9 Hoor, my volk, en Ek wil jou dit inskerp; Israel, as jy tog na My wou luister!

81:10 Daar mag by jou geen vreemde god wees nie, en voor ‘n uitlandse god mag jy jou nie neerbuig nie.

81:11 Ek is die HERE jou God wat jou laat optrek het uit Egipteland; maak jou mond wyd oop, dat Ek dit kan vul.

81:12 Maar my volk het na my stem nie geluister nie, en Israel was vir My nie gewillig nie.

81:13 Toe het Ek hulle oorgegee aan die verhardheid van hul hart, dat hulle in hul eie planne kon wandel.

81:14 Ag, as my volk maar na My wou luister, Israel in my weë wou wandel!

81:15 Gou sou Ek hul vyande onderwerp en my hand teen hul teëstanders uitstrek.

81:16 Die haters van die HERE sou kruipende na Hom toe kom; maar húlle tyd sou vir ewig wees.

81:17 Ja, Hy sou hulle voed met die beste van die koring; en met heuning uit die rots sou Ek jou versadig.