We Love God!

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

So when we call pain a problem, we claim we do not deserve it. We are even prepared to scuttle God to maintain our own innocence. We will say that God is not able to do what He would like, or He would never permit persons such as ourselves to suffer. That puffs up our egos and soothes our griefs at the same time. “How could God do this to me?” is at once an admission of pain and a soporific for it. It reduces our personal grief by eradicating the deity. Drastic medicine, indeed, that only a human ego, run wild, could possibly imagine.
John Gerstner

Bible – Afrikaans – Psalms Chapter 116:1-19.

Index: Afrikaans

 

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116:1 Ek het lief, want die HERE hoor my stem, my smekinge,

116:2 want Hy het sy oor tot my geneig; daarom sal ek Hom in my dae aanroep.

116:3 Bande van die dood het my omring, en angste van die doderyk het my getref; ek het benoudheid en kommer gevind.

116:4 Maar ek het die Naam van die HERE aangeroep: Ag, HERE, red my siel.

116:5 Die HERE is genadig en regverdig, en onse God is ‘n ontfermer.

116:6 Die HERE bewaar die eenvoudiges; ek het swak geword, maar Hy het my gehelp.

116:7 My siel, keer terug tot jou rus; want die HERE het goed aan jou gedoen.

116:8 Want U het my siel gered van die dood, my oog van trane, my voet van struikeling.

116:9 Ek sal wandel voor die aangesig van die HERE in die lande van die lewendes.

116:10 Ek het geglo toe ek gespreek het: Ek is diep neergebuig.

116:11 Ék het in my angs gesê: Alle mense is leuenaars.

116:12 Wat sal ek die HERE vergeld vir al sy weldade aan my?

116:13 Ek sal die beker van verlossinge opneem en die Naam van die HERE aanroep.

116:14 My geloftes sal ek aan die HERE betaal in die teenwoordigheid van sy ganse volk.

116:15 Kosbaar is in die oë van die HERE die dood van sy gunsgenote.

116:16 Ag, HERE, sekerlik, ek is u kneg, ek is u kneg, die seun van u diensmaagd; U het my bande losgemaak.

116:17 Ek sal U ‘n offer van danksegging bring en die Naam van die HERE aanroep.

116:18 Ek sal my geloftes aan die HERE betaal in die teenwoordigheid van sy ganse volk,

116:19 in die voorhowe van die huis van die HERE, binne-in jou, o Jerusalem! Halleluja!