We Love God!

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

We learn from Paul in Ephesians 5:31-32 that, from the beginning, manhood and womanhood existed to represent or dramatize God’s relation to His people and then Christ’s relation to His bride, the church. In this drama, the man represents God or Christ and is to love his wife as Christ loved the church. The woman represents God’s people or the church. And sexual union in the covenant of marriage represents pure, undefiled, intense heart-worship. That is, God means for the beauty of worship to be dramatized in the right ordering of our sexual lives.
John Piper

It is possible, in our pursuit of intimacy with God, to: 1. Allow our familiarity to degenerate into flippancy. 2. Fail to remember His transcendence by placing extreme emphasis on His immanence. 3. Lose sight of His holiness. 4. Overemphasize the subjective fruit to the exclusion of the objective foundation. 5. Fail to come to Him on His terms. 6. Lose sight of the distinction between Creator and creature.
Sam Storms

Bible – Finnish 1938 Psalms Chapter 29:1-11.

Index: Finnish 1938

 

Psalms 29

[1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9]
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]
[16]
[17]
[18]
[19]
[20]
[21]
[22]
[23]
[24]
[25]
[26]
[27]
[28]
[29]
[30]
[31]
[32]
[33]
[34]
[35]
[36]
[37]
[38]
[39]
[40]
[41]
[42]
[43]
[44]
[45]
[46]
[47]
[48]
[49]
[50]
[51]
[52]
[53]
[54]
[55]
[56]
[57]
[58]
[59]
[60]
[61]
[62]
[63]
[64]
[65]
[66]
[67]
[68]
[69]
[70]
[71]
[72]
[73]
[74]
[75]
[76]
[77]
[78]
[79]
[80]
[81]
[82]
[83]
[84]
[85]
[86]
[87]
[88]
[89]
[90]
[91]
[92]
[93]
[94]
[95]
[96]
[97]
[98]
[99]
[100]
[101]
[102]
[103]
[104]
[105]
[106]
[107]
[108]
[109]
[110]
[111]
[112]
[113]
[114]
[115]
[116]
[117]
[118]
[119]
[120]
[121]
[122]
[123]
[124]
[125]
[126]
[127]
[128]
[129]
[130]
[131]
[132]
[133]
[134]
[135]
[136]
[137]
[138]
[139]
[140]
[141]
[142]
[143]
[144]
[145]
[146]
[147]
[148]
[149]
[150]

29:1 Daavidin virsi. Antakaa Herralle, te Jumalan pojat, antakaa Herralle kunnia ja väkevyys.

29:2 Antakaa Herralle hänen nimensä kunnia, kumartakaa Herraa pyhässä kaunistuksessa.

29:3 Herran ääni käy vetten päällä; kunnian Jumala jylisee, Herra suurten vetten päällä.

29:4 Herran ääni käy voimallisesti, Herran ääni käy valtavasti.

29:5 Herran ääni särkee setrit, Herra särkee Libanonin setrit.

29:6 Hän hypittää niitä niinkuin vasikkaa, Libanonia ja Sirjonia niinkuin nuorta villihärkää.

29:7 Herran ääni halkoo tulen liekit.

29:8 Herran ääni vapisuttaa erämaan, Herra vapisuttaa Kaadeksen erämaan.

29:9 Herran ääni saattaa peurat poikimaan, se raastaa paljaiksi metsät. Ja kaikki hänen temppelissänsä sanoo: “Kunnia!”

29:10 Herra istui valtaistuimellaan, ja vedenpaisumus tuli. Herra istuu kuninkaana iankaikkisesti.

29:11 Herra antaa kansallensa väkevyyden, Herra siunaa kansaansa rauhalla.