Update April 28th 2018
Today is the 7th day of the 3rd week of seven weeks. Today is the 21st day of the counting of fifty days from the day of the waving of the Omer on the morrow after the Sabbath. Today is Sabbath, the 3rd Sabbath of seven Sabbaths. Today completes the 3rd week of seven weeks.
I read in the comments section for the post Sikh-ing God in Jerusalem at Nehemia’s Wall, this beautiful thought and prayer, by reader Aunt Ganny.
May he come to see and believe soon the depth and incomprehensible love of Yehovah that caused Him to take on human flesh so that He could finish the perfect work of redemption for His people who believe in His Words. Sometimes I am overcome by what Yehovah has done for His people whom He loves so much and yet the eyes of our hearts are prevented from seeing it. Dear Lord Yehovah! Please pour out the complete and full knowledge of Yourself upon our hearts and open our eyes that we might clearly see the awesome thing you have done for us through the Messiah Yehoshua, that Your Name, Yehovah, our Father, might be hallowed and glorified, your Kingdom come within our hearts, and Your Will done in us as it is done in Heaven. In Your blessed Name, we pray with thankful and grateful hearts, Amen.
Update April 25th 2015
There is a song, When Love Sees You by Mac Powell of Third Day. The lyrics cut right into my heart and I can hardly listen to it without crying.
Blessed are you, as you weep on your knees
With perfume and tears washing over My feet
Blessed are you, beggar, hopeless and blind
Calling for mercy when I’m passing by
Blessed are you, shaking your head
At two tiny fish and some bread
Blessed are you as you tremble and wait
For the first stone thrown at your sinful disgraceTell me your story, show me your wounds
And I’ll show you what Love sees when Love looks at you
Hand me the pieces, broken and bruised
And I’ll show you what Love sees when Love sees youBlessed are you, walking on waves
To find yourself sinking when you look away
Blessed are you, leper, standing alone,
The fear on their faces, is all that you’ve known
Blessed are you, lonely widow
Who gave your last shiny coin to Yahweh
Blessed are you with your silver and lies,
Kissing the One who’s saving your lifeTell me your story, show me your wounds
And I’ll show you what Love sees when Love looks at you
Hand me the pieces, broken and bruised
And I’ll show you what Love sees when Love sees youI see what I made in your mother’s womb
I see the day I fell in love with you.
I see your tomorrows, nothing left to chance
I see My Father’s fingerprints
I see your story, I see My name
Written on every beautiful page
You see the struggle, you see the shame
I see the reason I cameI came for your story, I came for your wounds
To show you what Love sees when I see you
Consider the Cost
Do we really think of what it cost the Father to bring us into His family? The beginning of the song says blessed are those who have missed the mark so greatly that they are marked as “sinners”, even by a God-less society, But, I think that we who have fallen and felt great shame, are so much more blessed than those who have been “good”, according to society. If you’ve seen the movie Passion of the Christ, and are one of the “blessed”, who have many sins to be forgiven, as I have, perhaps you felt like I did when I watched the movie, and saw graphically, just what my sin caused our Savior to suffer. Our sin and the resultant separation from God is why He came. That is what love does, it doesn’t take into account a wrong suffered 1 Corinthians 13. He wants us with Him for eternity, and He paid the price in full.
Today is three weeks of the Omer.
Original post April 28th 2012
21 Ziv / iyyar 31 AD
We love God because He first loved us 1 John 4:19 . Without His love we could not love any one let alone God. After telling the parable in Luke 7 of the two debtors, Jesus goes on to bring attention to the woman who is named only as a sinner, most assume she is Mary Magdalene, she has been quietly crying, washing Jesus’ feet with her tears and drying them with her hair and anointing them with perfume. This alabaster jar full of costly perfume, has cost her more than money, it has cost her, her standing in the community, her chance of ever marrying, ever having legitimate children, or grand-children, it has cost her everything, it represents her shame. Jesus says that those who have been forgiven much, love much–the one who has forgiven them.
I love the LORD, because He hears My voice and my supplications.
Because He has inclined His ear to me, Therefore I shall call upon Him as long as I live.
The cords of death encompassed me And the terrors of Sheol came upon me; I found distress and sorrow.
Then I called upon the name of the LORD: “O LORD, I beseech You, save my life!”
Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; Yes, our God is compassionate.
The LORD preserves the simple; I was brought low, and He saved me.
Return to your rest, O my soul, For the LORD has dealt bountifully with you.
For You have rescued my soul from death, My eyes from tears, My feet from stumbling.
I shall walk before the LORD In the land of the living.
I believed when I said, “I am greatly afflicted.”
I said in my alarm, “All men are liars.”
What shall I render to the LORD For all His benefits toward me?
I shall lift up the cup of salvation And call upon the name of the LORD.
I shall pay my vows to the LORD, Oh may it be in the presence of all His people.
Precious in the sight of the LORD Is the death of His godly ones.
O LORD, surely I am Your servant, I am Your servant, the son of Your handmaid, You have loosed my bonds.
To You I shall offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving, And call upon the name of the LORD.
I shall pay my vows to the LORD, Oh may it be in the presence of all His people,
In the courts of the LORD’S house, In the midst of you, O Jerusalem. Praise the LORD! Psalm 116
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