Texting (part one)

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"God’s holy, educating Spirit is in His word. A light, a new and precious light, shines forth from every page. Truth is there revealed, and words and sentences are made bright and appropriate for the occasion, as the voice of God speaking to the soul." Ellen G White – {COL 132.2}

"As the voice of God speaking to the soul..."  It is amazing that the King would speak personally to our hearts! He speaks great and marvelous themes, but He also speaks personally intimate ones too. "Words and sentences are made bright and appropriate for the occasion." I have seen Him do this. There have been times I have humbly read His word and had a burden on my heart and He relieves it by bringing to light things in the text I had never noticed before. He has made me recognize that every time I read His text there are personal and specific blessings in store for me. Because I want you to believe that the King is willing to text you about specific needs in your life I will share some of my experiences with God texting me.

Each morning after prayer I write in my journal and unburden my heart before my Father. Afterwards I go to my regularly scheduled Bible study. Here is an excerpt from a few weeks ago... I hope you will bring your burdens to Him and read the Bible looking for his personal texts to you.

June 14, 2012

A day of lasts. The last time I wake up in this house, the last time I walk through my garden, the last time I see the beautiful view out the window. What is in my heart this morning that I want to give to you Father? I guess it is mostly that I am surprised that you are interested in these last moments. That you want to walk through them with me. This is what I pray for that You walk with us and be noticeable to our dull senses.  We are pilgrims. This is a journey....

Please help us find the right place to live. Can you make finding a rental house easy? Should we even rent?  Are there other options?

2 Sam 7
V7 ...I have walked with all the children of Israel...

V10 Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; 

V11 ...Also the LORD telleth thee that he will make thee an house.

Thank you for speaking with me. Please give me awe and reverence. Help me not be tricking myself that it is really You texting me. When I realize I am in your presence and You are really engaged in communing with me all my other requests grow dim besides this one, I pray that You save my children.

V 12 I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.

V15 But my mercy shall not depart away from him.

This is happiness in my heart, you are faithful, your mercy endureth forever. I can only respond to You as did David,

V18 Who am I, O Lord, and what is my house that thou hast brought me hither to?

I will depend on you. We are not worthy of your goodness, but you are a mighty God, whose name is love.

Racham. Plural (part 2)

For forty weeks and 24/7, love bathed each of my babies.  My lungs breathed so they didn't need to.  My heart beat to give them blood.  I ate things they were unable to digest.  Every cell in me; every thought, every feeling centered around the growing fetus.  I talked to it.  I sang to it. I prayed for it.  I lived my life for it.  A mothers love for her unborn baby is tender and deep.  I believe there may be no words on the planet to express it, yet in Hebrew God multiplies racham to denote that kind of love.  It is defined as "compassion (in the plural); by extension the womb (as cherishing the fetus)..."

Lamentations 3:22 says, "It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions (racham) fail not."  God loves us with the same tender compassionate care that mothers have for their babies.  He breathed life into us.  His heart pumped blood to save us.  He drank the bitter cup because we could not do it and survive.  He speaks to us..."And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying,  This is the way, walk ye it in.." Isaiah 30:21.  He sings to us..."The Lord thy God...will rejoice over thee with joy; He will rest in His love He will joy over thee with singing."  Zephaniah 3:17  He prays for us..."I pray for them...which Thou hast given me."  John 17:9  He died and lives for us..."For in Him we live, and move, and have our being...for we are also His offspring."  Acts 17:28

There are no words in the universe to describe God's love for us,  it is racham multiplied by omnipotence!

Racham Singular (part 1)

Your father did it as did mine.  He stood over your infant bed and wondered at the miraculous gift he was given.  Inevitably with the back of a finger he fondled your soft cheek.  I have seen my husband do this and it would seem that his rough hands could bruise the tender skin, but they never did.  His touch, full of love and compassion, ran like water over a smooth surface.

That picture expresses God's tender compassion toward all His children.  The Bible says, "Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him."  Psalm 103:13.  The word pitieth in Hebrew is racham.  It means "to fondle; by implication to love, especially to compassionate..."  Because He is our Father, the Lord watches over us and marvels at the wonderful gift He has in us.  He fondles us with oceans of love and compassion.  In our infantile ignorance we do not recognize the touch, still it changes us.  We are surrounded by it; buoyed up by it, and it makes us live.