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

We must not become so "spiritual" in our Christian life that we forget about meeting physical needs, and we must not become so "worldly" in meeting those needs that we lose sight of God's ultimate design. Or, to say it in specifically "pro-life" terms, we must not become so "spiritual" in our Christian life that we write off the daily slaughter of 4,000 innocent human beings as a political issue (beyond our jurisdiction), and we must not become so "worldly" in intervening for them that we lose sight of the bigger picture (reconciling people to Christ through holiness and love). This balance is the essence of pure and undefiled religion.
Unknown Author

Whatever we think valuable ought to be acknowledged as received from God. If then all the excellency we have is God’s gift, it is very strange that we do not learn humility when God thus binds us to Himself; but that, on the contrary, we abuse His bounty by making it the occasion of pride. This ingratitude has nevertheless ever prevailed in the world. This then is the reason why [God] reduces to nothing all the boastings of the world.
John Calvin

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    תְהִלִּים 142
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    1 משכיל לדוד בהיותו במערה תפלה קולי אל יהוה אזעק קולי אל יהוה אתחנן׃
    2 אשפך לפניו שיחי צרתי לפניו אגיד׃
    3 בהתעטף עלי רוחי ואתה ידעת נתיבתי בארח זו אהלך טמנו פח לי׃
    4 הביט ימין וראה ואין לי מכיר אבד מנוס ממני אין דורש לנפשי׃
    5 זעקתי אליך יהוה אמרתי אתה מחסי חלקי בארץ החיים׃
    6 הקשיבה אל רנתי כי דלותי מאד הצילני מרדפי כי אמצו ממני׃
    7 הוציאה ממסגר נפשי להודות את שמך בי יכתרו צדיקים כי תגמל עלי׃
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