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

God saves us from the reductionism of such legalism which enshrines spirituality as a series of wooden laws and then says, “If you can do these six, sixteen or sixty-six things, you will be godly.” Christianity, godliness, is far more than a checklist. Being “in Christ” is a relationship, and like all relationships it deserves disciplined maintenance, but never legalistic reductionism.
Kent Hughes

Many of those whose task it is to broker the truth of God to the people of God in the churches have now redefined the pastoral task such that theology has become an embarrassing encumbrance or a matter of which they have little knowledge; and many in the Church have now turned in upon themselves and substituted for the knowledge of God a search for the knowledge of self.
David Wells

Bible – Afrikaans – Psalms Chapter 144:1-15.

Index: Afrikaans

 

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144:1 ‘n Psalm van Dawid. Geloofd sy die HERE, my rots, wat my hande leer om te veg, my vingers om oorlog te voer-

144:2 my goedertierenheid en my bergvesting, my skans en my redder, my skild en die Een by wie ek skuil, wat my volk aan my onderwerp.

144:3 o HERE, wat is die mens dat U hom ken, die mensekind dat U op hom ag gee?

144:4 Die mens is soos die nietigheid; sy dae is soos ‘n vlugtige skaduwee.

144:5 Buig u hemele, HERE, en daal neer; raak die berge aan, dat hulle rook!

144:6 Slinger bliksems en verstrooi hulle; stuur u pyle uit en verwar hulle!

144:7 Strek uit die hoogte u hande uit; ruk my uit, en red my uit groot waters, uit die hand van vreemdes,

144:8 wie se mond leuens spreek en wie se regterhand ‘n regterhand van bedrog is.

144:9 o God, ek wil ‘n nuwe lied sing tot u eer, op die tiensnarige harp wil ek U psalmsing.

144:10 U wat aan konings die oorwinning gee, wat u kneg Dawid ontruk aan die gevaarlike swaard.

144:11 Ruk my uit en red my uit die hand van vreemdes, wie se mond leuens spreek en wie se regterhand ‘n regterhand van bedrog is;

144:12 sodat ons seuns soos plante mag wees wat opgekweek is in hulle jeug, ons dogters soos hoekpilare wat uitgebeitel is na die boustyl van ‘n paleis;

144:13 dat ons skure vol mag wees, wat allerhande soorte voorraad oplewer; ons kleinvee by duisende mag aanteel, by tien duisende vermeerder word op ons velde;

144:14 ons beeste gelaai mag wees; geen bres in ons mure en geen uittog daaruit, en geen geskreeu op ons pleine nie.

144:15 Welgeluksalig is die volk met wie dit so gaan; welgeluksalig is die volk wie se God die HERE is!