We Love God!

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

We belittle God when we go through the outward motions of worship and take no pleasure in His person.
John Piper

We live in a culture that despises authority at every level. Whether the authority of police, or of government, or of parents, or a husband's authority in marriage, or pastoral authority in our churches – our culture has programmed us to despise authority. We find it hard to think positively about authority for one very simple reason: We are sinners who want to be in charge of our own lives. We want to be captains of our own destiny. We want to govern our own futures. And here, one of the lessons of the Trinity is that God loves what we despise; namely, God loves, exercises, and embraces rightful authority – submission relationships. God loves this authority-submission structure because God embodies this very structure in His Trinitarian relations of Persons.
Bruce Ware

Bible – Afrikaans – Psalms Chapter 124:1-8.

Index: Afrikaans

 

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124:1 ‘n Bedevaartslied. Van Dawid. As die HERE nie vir ons was nie- laat Israel dit sê-

124:2 as die HERE nie vir ons was toe die mense teen ons opgestaan het nie,

124:3 dan het hulle ons lewendig verslind toe hulle toorn teen ons ontvlam het;

124:4 dan het die waters ons oorstroom, ‘n stroom het oor ons siel gegaan;

124:5 dan het die trotse waters oor ons siel gegaan.

124:6 Geloofd sy die HERE wat ons aan hulle tande nie as buit oorgegee het nie!

124:7 Ons siel het vrygeraak soos ‘n voël uit die vangnet van die voëlvangers; die vangnet is gebreek, en ons, ons het vrygeraak.

124:8 Ons hulp is in die Naam van die HERE wat hemel en aarde gemaak het.