Psalm 50 is my this week's meditation. "How can I ever order my conversation aright?"

The tongue: is it really our measure? I ask God this, everytime I stumble over verses like Psalm 50's whole thought. Really it all boils down to what you let your tongue say, seems to be His answer in scripture, among other things this is your dipstick. "I can't get my tongue to talk right!" That is just me and that is where I am praying. Help me talk right, Lord! In Jesus' Name. I see promises attached to Your subdual of my tongue. God is good.

In the Praise, of enjoying the beauty that God has lent to us! All things, richly to enjoy.

Crown Him, Crown Him, Jesus our blessed Redeemer! Help us, Lord not to take the glory from YOU!

How do we crown Him? How is our faith different from the demons, who believe and tremble?

Crown Him with many crowns, The Lamb upon His throne; Hark! how the heav'nly anthem drowns All music but its own. Awake, my soul, and sing Of Him who died for thee, And hail Him as thy matchless King Thro' all eternity.

Crown Him the Son of God Before the worlds began: And ye, who tread where He hath trod, Crown Him the Son of man; Who ev'ry grief hath known That wrings the human breast, And takes and bears them for His own, That all in Him may rest.

Crown Him the Lord of love! Behold His hands and side, Rich wounds, yet visible above, In beauty glorified: No angel in the sky Can fully bear that sight, But downward bends his wond'ring eye At mysteries so bright.

Crown Him the Lord of life, Who triumphed o'er the grave, And rose victorious in the strife For those He came to save; His glories now we sing Who died, and rose on high, Who died, eternal life to bring, And lives that death may die.

Crown Him the Lord of years, The Potentate of time, Creator of the rolling spheres Ineffably sublime! All hail, Redeemer, hail! For Thou hast died for me: Thy praise shall never, never fail Thro'out eternity.

Praise Him! praise Him! Jesus, our blessed Redeemer! Sing, O earth, His wonderful love proclaim!

Hail Him! hail Him! highest archangels in glory; Strength and honor give to His holy name! Like a shepherd Jesus will guard His children, In His arms He carries them all day long:

Refrain: Praise Him! praise Him! tell of His excellent greatness; Praise Him! praise Him! ever in joyful song!

Praise Him! praise Him! Jesus, our blessed Redeemer! For our sins He suffered, and bled and died; He, our Rock, our hope of eternal salvation, Hail Him! hail Him! Jesus the Crucified! Sound His praises! Jesus who bore our sorrows; Love unbounded, wonderful, deep and strong;

Refrain: Praise Him! praise Him! tell of His excellent greatness; Praise Him! praise Him! ever in joyful song!

Praise Him! praise Him! Jesus, our blessed Redeemer! Heav'nly portals loud with hosannas ring! Jesus, Saviour, reigneth forever and ever; Crown Him! crown Him! Prophet and Priest and King! Christ is coming! over the world victorious, Pow'r and glory unto the Lord belong:

Refrain: Praise Him! praise Him! tell of His excellent greatness; Praise Him! praise Him! ever in joyful song!

Should we try to storm Heaven? Can we try to force God's hand on our behalf? Jesus paid it all.

Obadiah 1:6 How are the things of Esau searched out! How are his hidden things sought up!

We are Esau. We were not God's first choice. He has made provision for our salvation and we still act in animosity against the dearness of others to God in a carnal way. We either act in violence to steal, if we could Heaven from God's hands or we act in duplicity, to conn God to believe that we are worthy in some way. God has ways of dealing with the likes of us. But, it is always for the purpose of our ultimate salvation.

God sent not His son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

If that is our desire we are in Sync with God's purposes. If not, we are the target of Obadiah's lament. God will search our ultimate purposes up from the depths of the reality from whence they are come. We can't bring anything to God, but the Hell inside our hearts. We must come in repentance and faith. We must see our real devices and submit them to God. We must return to Him daily, "Our Father" confessing our ineptitude to have right thinking and motives. God will search them{our motives} out and teach us His ways. We can't wrestle Heaven from God, or challenge Him to a battle of wits. All of these are from Esau and Edom. I will either win it my way or give up trying. God has given us His son, our part is submission to God and bringing our wicked deployments of wits under the submission to God's Holy Word. That is crowning Him in that part of our lives that we are attempting to walk circumspectly. I cannot walk circumspectly, if I am not looking.

Lay up for yourselves treasures... IN Heaven?

Truly, as Gary Chapman penned, there is a treasure at the end of this road we are traveling... But there is a treasure now. The treasure of walking with Christ in this world. The treasure of making a real attempt to please the Lord, in our lives and dispositions of situations. We can only attempt to please Him. He is pleased at the attempt. He considers our frame that we are dust. All of those awful missteps and horrible thoughts that we have harbored and that grieve our hearts, who want to live for Him, won't torture us throughout eternity, in our glorified states. But what of those who have no care for pleasing Him on this earth. "We are not under the law?" Who is the fruition of the law? Jesus. He is the full embodiment of the law enfleshed and our breaking of that law is a grief to the Spirit and the Father for it displeases Him and tore the body of Our only Holy Savior. We added to His grief in our sin. This should dissuade us from our sinful passions. This should comfort us in our confession of sin that their price is paid in Christ and we have no part in that payment. He paid for "such a worm as I". I who only half-heartedly flee my sins, in this estate of life, can look forward to a time when my whole soul will live pleasing to my dear God! Help us Lord to live in the light of that day. I don't believe in purgatory, but I do believe that we do or don't lay up treasures here on earth or in heaven. The grief of knowing that I didn't have communion with the accessible Spirit of God because of my sins, is a sad one to regret.

"Lord, Give us grace, that we, like them the meek and lowly, on High may dwell with Thee!"

Jesus paid it all!

Pages 62 and 63 of the Christian's Daily Walk... When I come to these pages where my experience has been whipped by my conscience more times than I can remember and nearly swept myself out completely, applying them to myself, in deepest of griefs, I am comforted to know that this is not the reason that Christ came. He came that we might have life, not continued whelps on our souls. Jesus came into the world not to "condemn the world" but that the world through Him might be saved. We cannot save ourselves by reading or by penance or by self flagellation. Halleluia, He has taken the whip out of my hands and replaced it with His own real comforts. He bought our great salvation! The new word for me is the nurture of the soul.

mourning over sin, Us 4, No More!

Pages 82 and 83 of Christian's Daily Walk, really blessed my heart, this morning, in a wondrous way.

I had seen the benefits of corporate fasting, in our fledgling Church and I certainly couldn't have put it better than the writer of the Christian's Daily Walk, in this morning's "crack"{as I call it}. I read consecutively through the Bible, but I never crack it. I do, however Crack the "Daily Walk" and often to the eternal profit of my soul. This time the 4 that he refered to was my own mourning over the sins of my soul, my family, people of high stature and those whose decisions are governing our lives, etc. What an all-inclusive, us 4, he referred to. I will upload the page asap.