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

The prevailing idea seems to be, that I come to God and ask Him for something that I want, and that I expect Him to give me that which I have asked. But this is a most dishonouring and degading conception. The popular belief reduces God to a servant, our servant: doing our bidding, performing our pleasure, granting our desires. No, prayer is a coming to God, telling Him my need, committing my way unto the Lord, and leaving Him to deal with it as seemeth Him best.
A.W. Pink

The events that Matthew recorded as happening in the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies all happened as a result of human decisions, and were worked out in the course of ordinary human circumstances. Were it not for the inspired commentary by Matthew, we would have no more reason to see the sovereign hand of God in them that we do in the most mundane occurrences reported in our daily newspapers… God recorded in His Word specific instances of His sovereign rule over history in order that we might trust Him in the affairs of history as they unfold before us today. We should remember that, for those experiencing the events recorded in the biblical narratives, God’s hand was no mare apparent to them in those events than His hand is apparent to us today in ours.
Jerry Bridges

Bible – Finnish 1938 Psalms Chapter 108:1-13.

Index: Finnish 1938

 

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108:1 Laulu; Daavidin virsi.

108:2 Minun sydämeni on valmis, Jumala, minä tahdon veisata ja soittaa; valmis on minun sieluni.

108:3 Heräjä, harppu ja kannel. Minä tahdon herättää aamuruskon.

108:4 Herra, sinua minä kiitän kansojen joukossa ja veisaan sinun kiitostasi kansakuntien keskellä.

108:5 Sillä suuri on sinun armosi ja ulottuu ylitse taivasten ja sinun totuutesi hamaan pilviin asti.

108:6 Korota itsesi yli taivasten, Jumala, ja levitköön sinun kunniasi yli kaiken maan.

108:7 Että sinun rakkaasi pelastetuiksi tulisivat, auta oikealla kädelläsi ja vastaa minulle.

108:8 Jumala on puhunut pyhäkössänsä. Minä riemuitsen, minä jaan Sikemin ja mittaan Sukkotin laakson.

108:9 Minun on Gilead, ja minun on Manasse; Efraim on minun pääni suojus, Juuda minun valtikkani.

108:10 Mooab on minun pesuastiani, Edomiin minä viskaan kenkäni, minä riemuitsen Filistean maasta.

108:11 Kuka vie minut varustettuun kaupunkiin? Kuka saattaa minut Edomiin?

108:12 Etkö sinä, Jumala, hyljännyt meitä? Et lähtenyt, Jumala, meidän sotajoukkojemme kanssa!

108:13 Anna meille apu ahdistajaa vastaan, sillä turha on ihmisten apu. [108:14] Jumalan voimalla me teemme väkeviä tekoja; hän tallaa meidän vihollisemme maahan.