WHO DOES IT POINT TO?

Father,
You always do what you said you would do.
You are righteous.

Meditating on what the Word points to.

We look at how the old covenant points to the New covenant.

We look at the people more than we look at who the story of the people points to.
How great the record of the prophets.

We look more at the mistakes or right choices of the people because we believe if we study what they did wrong or right, we won't repeat the wrong but we will imitate or copy the right.

That is what America has believed about it's history as well, yet look at our government and industry.
That hasn't worked.

Religion is still ruining the truth about God.
If it was just as simple as imitating what we deem the heroes of the Bible and not the villains we wouldn't need grace.

Jesus had to come.

This is just a blog that I wake up every morning not knowing what I am going to say.
For a minute I would study for a day and pre write until the Lord said that isn't how you started out writing.
I would wait until the morning for The Father to give me the subject he wanted me to write about.
He wanted me to learn to trust that He would give me what to say.

A good lesson.

I ask the question, what does the theme point to?

Does it point to what I am doing or not doing?
Does it point to how good my works or I am?

Does it point to what kind of person I am or my parents were?
Does it point to the tragedies or success in my life?

Does it point to my faith or does it point to the goodness of God?

I was meditating Nehemiah chapter 9 and the gratitude in this chapter points directly to the mercies of a good and gracious God.

We are very quick to see the wrong, so quick indeed that we enjoy pointing it out even as we teach other people to not complain.
Easy to tell someone to look at the big picture, when we our selves have not looked at the big picture.

The big picture points to God's Grace.

Even when they made a molded calf for themselves,
And said, "This is our god
That brought you up out of Egypt',
And they provoked you,
Yet in Your many mercies
You did not forsake them in the wilderness.

The pillar of the cloud did not depart from them by day,
To lead them on the road;
Nor the pillar of fire by night,
To show them light,
And the way they should go.

You also gave Your good Spirit to instruct them,
And did not withhold Your manna from their mouth,
And gave them water for their thirst

Forty years You sustained them in the wilderness;
They lacked nothing;
Their clothes did not wear out
And their feet did not swell...

Meditate the goodness of God.
Because we can all easily place our selves in the very same position.
So many of us believe that we are not in the wilderness.
Yet we haven't arrived at the place of understanding yet.

Been wandering 30 years or more and haven't understood that our clothes have not worn out and our feet have not swelled because it is God's mercy that has kept us when we threw His ways behind our back.

If it had not been for Christ when we hear things that we don't like or people who annoy us call and we cringe we would be out of line with God just as the Israelites were.

If it were not for Christ as we have made idols out of our achievements we would be just as lost as the Israelites were.

The Word points to the goodness of God and when we point to the goodness of God, men come to know His righteousness.

Unmerited
Israel a prime example of God's undeserving favor, a lesson to us all.
Not pointing to Israel but pointing to God's Grace, Mercy and Compassion for His people.
Praying for Israel.

Nehemiah 9:31

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