Post Christmas Meditation from Psalm 10

Psalm 10:3  For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth. Psalm 10:12  Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble. Psalm 10:16  The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land. Psalm 10:17  LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear: Psalm 10:18  To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.

Do we bless our own covetous hearts?

What a good reminder, this few days after Christmas?

Am I as grateful for my gifts and blessings this day as I was on Christmas Day? Am I looking for the new acquirements and what I will put on my list for next year? Am I seeking to float favor with others for the position that they hold by giving them things and accolades, when it is clear that they are in need of reproof and rebuke. Am I Giving gifts when they need a spanking??

Christmas is a good lesson of favor and Blessings. Learning of the Naughty and Nice list is just the beginning of what God wants us to see from the celebration of this holiday, should we choose to celebrate it. God is sweeter and kinder than Santa and His list is far more exacting and gracious. The price for our sins has been paid in Christ! But God still abhors covetousness. We have built our society on covetousness. Help us to rebuild that part.

Contentment Sermon by Cal Walden, probable good listen! Is my mouth calling God's favor or His abhorrence? What I say and how I say it is very significant, especially to little ones. They follow every verbiage line. from Bridges Proverbs 10

11. The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life; but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. The Indwelling Spirit—"a well of living water"—is the glorious privilege of the righteous. (John, iv. 14; vii. 38.) Hence his mouth, replenished from the heavenly source, is a well of life, sending forth refreshing waters. (Chap. xvi. 23.) The precious talent of speech is thus consecrated to His service, "who made man's mouth." "Grace in its measure is poured upon our lips" (Ps. xlv. 2); and our "tongue" becomes "our glory." (Ps. lvii. 8 ; cviii. 1.) Wit, originality, imagin- ation may furnish ‘the feast of reason, and the flow of soul.’ But how poor is this pleasure compared with the godly instruction—perhaps with little intellectual attraction—that pours forth from a well of life! Servant of God! honour your high privilege of thus ministering a blessing to the Church. (Verse 21; xv. 7. Eph. iv. 29.) Enlarge its exercise by increasing your spiritual store, and walking in closer fel- lowship with your God. What owe you to His grace, who hath made your mouth a well of life; while the violence of the wicked falls back upon themselves, and covers their mouth with confusion?

He knows that we are prone to wander! I must run to my Savior for cleansing and comfort in my foibles! There are little ones following me into my pit of departure. Help, Lord! Like running for a stray bump on the third, I am sometimes headlong falling over myself in my remembering the rearing days and trying to stear forward in my own soul. God help! Amen. Thank God for Grace and Mercy!