THROUGH THE BIBLE IN THREE YEARS
Why should people over 60 use the valet to park their cars?
The valet doesn't forget where he parked!
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Ps 40:6-10
6 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,
8 I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
9 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
10 I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.
KJV
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Although sacrifices and offerings were ordered by God for the Israelites, those were not why God instituted the sacrificial system with Israel. The sacrifices and offerings were designed to bring man to a genuine understanding. God desires that we know how sinful we are, and how much we need His forgiveness and mercy. But all the sacrifices and offerings in the world cannot truly be enough for our sins.
The sacrificial system of the Israelites was given to bring them to yield themselves to God! THIS is what God wants from us!
Though David desired to become fully given to God, he never completely accomplished it.
Neither can any man.
But these words, describing that desire in David, do apply to the ONE MAN Who accomplished it - JESUS CHRIST!
Jesus, God in flesh, truly had his "ear opened," which means he became totally enslaved to God's will for His life. The word "opened" means to bore open, or to pierce. It applied to the piercing of the ear of a slave to show ownership. Jesus was God in flesh, therefore, He was fully owned of God. And He never forgot His purpose in life!
God required God to pay our sin debt! The one who harms another by an act of unkindness can never repay that act. It must be forgiven. And it is the one harmed who must forgive. God Himself had to pay for our sins at Calvary.
Indeed, it is written in the "volume of the book" of Christ (verse 7). Virtually every book of the Bible tells something about Jesus. The Bible is the revelation of Jesus Christ.
It is He, and He ALONE, Who delighted in doing God's will fully and completely (verse 8). The Living WORD of God certainly had the WORD of God in His heart!
He came and spoke truth - absolute truth, and did not "refrain" or withhold though it cost Him his life at Calvary (verse 9). ((See Philippians 2:5-11))
Jesus declared the "salvation" of God (verse 10). He said that "...no man cometh to the Father, but by me" (John 14:6).
David knew that God was going to send Messiah as one of his descendents (2Samuel 7:12-16). And David purposed in his heart to try and live with the model of Messiah as his guide.
Let us do the same today, and strive not to forget our purpose!
Love ya,
Bruce