number 2
okay, a skip of psalms here,
Psalms 22.
1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so far from saving me,
so far from the words of my groaning?
2 O my God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer,
by night, and am not silent.
3 Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One;
you are the praise of Israel. a]" class="footnote">[a]
4 In you our fathers put their trust;
they trusted and you delivered them.
5 They cried to you and were saved;
in you they trusted and were not disappointed.
6 But I am a worm and not a man,
scorned by men and despised by the people.
7 All who see me mock me;
they hurl insults, shaking their heads:
8 "He trusts in the LORD;
let the LORD rescue him.
Let him deliver him,
since he delights in him."
9 Yet you brought me out of the womb;
you made me trust in you
even at my mother's breast.
10 From birth I was cast upon you;
from my mother's womb you have been my God.
11 Do not be far from me,
for trouble is near
and there is no one to help.
12 Many bulls surround me;
strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.
13 Roaring lions tearing their prey
open their mouths wide against me.
14 I am poured out like water,
and all my bones are out of joint.
My heart has turned to wax;
it has melted away within me.
15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd,
and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth;
you lay me b]" class="footnote">[b] in the dust of death.
16 Dogs have surrounded me;
a band of evil men has encircled me,
they have pierced c]" class="footnote">[c] my hands and my feet.
17 I can count all my bones;
people stare and gloat over me.
18 They divide my garments among them
and cast lots for my clothing.
19 But you, O LORD, be not far off;
O my Strength, come quickly to help me.
20 Deliver my life from the sword,
my precious life from the power of the dogs.
21 Rescue me from the mouth of the lions;
save d]" class="footnote">[d] me from the horns of the wild oxen.
22 I will declare your name to my brothers;
in the congregation I will praise you.
23 You who fear the LORD, praise him!
All you descendants of Jacob, honor him!
Revere him, all you descendants of Israel!
24 For he has not despised or disdained
the suffering of the afflicted one;
he has not hidden his face from him
but has listened to his cry for help.
25 From you comes the theme of my praise in the great assembly;
before those who fear you e]" class="footnote">[e] will I fulfill my vows.
26 The poor will eat and be satisfied;
they who seek the LORD will praise him-
may your hearts live forever!
27 All the ends of the earth
will remember and turn to the LORD,
and all the families of the nations
will bow down before him,
28 for dominion belongs to the LORD
and he rules over the nations.
29 All the rich of the earth will feast and worship;
all who go down to the dust will kneel before him-
those who cannot keep themselves alive.
30 Posterity will serve him;
future generations will be told about the Lord.
31 They will proclaim his righteousness
to a people yet unborn-
for he has done it.
This one has a lot of meaning to me. I just never really got to write anything about it. I don't remeber when , i don't remember what, who or how.
There's nothing you can do to separate with God, he's always there and i'm so glad that we're able to have this. it's so.. safe.
We've studied so many other religions, so many which seem so.. well to me, frustrating, and difficult. It's funny to see though that those we've studied seem to be so against Christianity, or like, there's someway to 'accept it' but it's not the only way.
Hinduism for example. It's a circle. I find it so frustrating. Seriously. There's like, gazillions of gods and idols for every thing. You live life to find enlightenment, and once you realize that.. it's good.. and you continue doing what you are born to do, because it's what you are supposed to do. It is how you do that particular job, which qualifies you for the next level up in life.
Why would you pray to all these other god's, why would you not just pray to the 'god' above all the other gods?? cut out the middle man.
There is no sin, because everything is part of god, therefore 'me' or 'i' is an illusion.
The goal is to get back to Brahmen.. as wiki puts it,
"Brahman (Sanskrit: ब्रह्मन्, brahman, nominative brahma, ब्रह्म) is the unchanging, infinite, immanent, and transcendent reality which is the Divine Ground of all matter, energy, time, space, being, and everything beyond in this Universe."
gg branches mate.
He's too good to have anything to do with you so bl's and don't even try to communicate.
Where is the love?
If your life/soul/spirit goal is to eventually be part of Brahman, why bother? You're part of it anyway, he's .. everything.
Therefore, say for example, you do get to Brahman, and then what? You just exist as part of everything? ... no thanks. Rather imba my lifescore and up and down it to like a pro life where i do what i want. do just enough to stay at that top level. Everything includes like.. the nasties. and nah, don't feel the need to be part of the everything if that's included.
Christianity, is just another pathway to brahman.
apparently.
No. It's not. John 14:6 "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
okay that's a lot. I cbs writing my thought's about other religions because they are just so huge and my thoughts are more than anythign i could type in one go.
Basically. I'm so glad mum and dad are christian, and brought me up in a Christian household. It's such a privilege.
I mean, I had to make the conscience decision, and it was, and now i know that there's always someone to go back to. The world could turn it's back on me, as much as i'd cry and moan and flail, He'd be there, to show love and comfort. <3
As much as it's such a hard concept to grasp, and if i didn't understand it, it'd sound just.. who know.
So here's to you Mum n dad =] really.
I guess i'm just happy and filling rather fulfilled.
But it's sad, because then I think about other people, and how they're not as privileged as I or others..privilege in the sense that they don't know it, not that they are not 'deserving' of it.
I want to share it to much. I want to show that level of care and trust.
I've screwed up a lot, i want to fix it, but it's in the past so all i can do is pray.
lol.. i just gave dad the rest of my fruit salad and icecream. and he started making joyus noises.
'YOU SURE?? NO REGRETS?? OKAY THANKS' 'woohoo, hehehe!'
Psalms 22.
1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so far from saving me,
so far from the words of my groaning?
2 O my God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer,
by night, and am not silent.
3 Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One;
you are the praise of Israel. a]" class="footnote">[a]
4 In you our fathers put their trust;
they trusted and you delivered them.
5 They cried to you and were saved;
in you they trusted and were not disappointed.
6 But I am a worm and not a man,
scorned by men and despised by the people.
7 All who see me mock me;
they hurl insults, shaking their heads:
8 "He trusts in the LORD;
let the LORD rescue him.
Let him deliver him,
since he delights in him."
9 Yet you brought me out of the womb;
you made me trust in you
even at my mother's breast.
10 From birth I was cast upon you;
from my mother's womb you have been my God.
11 Do not be far from me,
for trouble is near
and there is no one to help.
12 Many bulls surround me;
strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.
13 Roaring lions tearing their prey
open their mouths wide against me.
14 I am poured out like water,
and all my bones are out of joint.
My heart has turned to wax;
it has melted away within me.
15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd,
and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth;
you lay me b]" class="footnote">[b] in the dust of death.
16 Dogs have surrounded me;
a band of evil men has encircled me,
they have pierced c]" class="footnote">[c] my hands and my feet.
17 I can count all my bones;
people stare and gloat over me.
18 They divide my garments among them
and cast lots for my clothing.
19 But you, O LORD, be not far off;
O my Strength, come quickly to help me.
20 Deliver my life from the sword,
my precious life from the power of the dogs.
21 Rescue me from the mouth of the lions;
save d]" class="footnote">[d] me from the horns of the wild oxen.
22 I will declare your name to my brothers;
in the congregation I will praise you.
23 You who fear the LORD, praise him!
All you descendants of Jacob, honor him!
Revere him, all you descendants of Israel!
24 For he has not despised or disdained
the suffering of the afflicted one;
he has not hidden his face from him
but has listened to his cry for help.
25 From you comes the theme of my praise in the great assembly;
before those who fear you e]" class="footnote">[e] will I fulfill my vows.
26 The poor will eat and be satisfied;
they who seek the LORD will praise him-
may your hearts live forever!
27 All the ends of the earth
will remember and turn to the LORD,
and all the families of the nations
will bow down before him,
28 for dominion belongs to the LORD
and he rules over the nations.
29 All the rich of the earth will feast and worship;
all who go down to the dust will kneel before him-
those who cannot keep themselves alive.
30 Posterity will serve him;
future generations will be told about the Lord.
31 They will proclaim his righteousness
to a people yet unborn-
for he has done it.
This one has a lot of meaning to me. I just never really got to write anything about it. I don't remeber when , i don't remember what, who or how.
There's nothing you can do to separate with God, he's always there and i'm so glad that we're able to have this. it's so.. safe.
We've studied so many other religions, so many which seem so.. well to me, frustrating, and difficult. It's funny to see though that those we've studied seem to be so against Christianity, or like, there's someway to 'accept it' but it's not the only way.
Hinduism for example. It's a circle. I find it so frustrating. Seriously. There's like, gazillions of gods and idols for every thing. You live life to find enlightenment, and once you realize that.. it's good.. and you continue doing what you are born to do, because it's what you are supposed to do. It is how you do that particular job, which qualifies you for the next level up in life.
Why would you pray to all these other god's, why would you not just pray to the 'god' above all the other gods?? cut out the middle man.
There is no sin, because everything is part of god, therefore 'me' or 'i' is an illusion.
The goal is to get back to Brahmen.. as wiki puts it,
"Brahman (Sanskrit: ब्रह्मन्, brahman, nominative brahma, ब्रह्म) is the unchanging, infinite, immanent, and transcendent reality which is the Divine Ground of all matter, energy, time, space, being, and everything beyond in this Universe."
gg branches mate.
He's too good to have anything to do with you so bl's and don't even try to communicate.
Where is the love?
If your life/soul/spirit goal is to eventually be part of Brahman, why bother? You're part of it anyway, he's .. everything.
Therefore, say for example, you do get to Brahman, and then what? You just exist as part of everything? ... no thanks. Rather imba my lifescore and up and down it to like a pro life where i do what i want. do just enough to stay at that top level. Everything includes like.. the nasties. and nah, don't feel the need to be part of the everything if that's included.
Christianity, is just another pathway to brahman.
apparently.
No. It's not. John 14:6 "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
okay that's a lot. I cbs writing my thought's about other religions because they are just so huge and my thoughts are more than anythign i could type in one go.
Basically. I'm so glad mum and dad are christian, and brought me up in a Christian household. It's such a privilege.
I mean, I had to make the conscience decision, and it was, and now i know that there's always someone to go back to. The world could turn it's back on me, as much as i'd cry and moan and flail, He'd be there, to show love and comfort. <3
As much as it's such a hard concept to grasp, and if i didn't understand it, it'd sound just.. who know.
So here's to you Mum n dad =] really.
I guess i'm just happy and filling rather fulfilled.
But it's sad, because then I think about other people, and how they're not as privileged as I or others..privilege in the sense that they don't know it, not that they are not 'deserving' of it.
I want to share it to much. I want to show that level of care and trust.
I've screwed up a lot, i want to fix it, but it's in the past so all i can do is pray.
lol.. i just gave dad the rest of my fruit salad and icecream. and he started making joyus noises.
'YOU SURE?? NO REGRETS?? OKAY THANKS' 'woohoo, hehehe!'