The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him and what came to my heart and mind in 2 Samuel 23:2,
"The Spirit of the Lord spoke through me; his word was on my tongue."
Of the last words spoken by David, he claimed the Lord spoke through him. He said it was the Spirit of the Lord whose word was on his tongue. Much of the book of Psalms was authored by David, and so what David tells us is that what he had to say in the book of Psalms was either given him by God or that simply God spoke through him.
Peter makes a fascinating observation in regard to the production of the Scriptures, of which the book of Psalms is a part. He said, "Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet's own interpretation of things. For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit." 2 Peter 1:20-21.
This makes the reading of not just Psalms, but of all the Scriptures, a fascinating thing to do. We can listen to the very words of our Creator himself as we read the Scriptures! We live in a time when people seem desperate to know that God exists, that heaven exists, that there is life after our physical deaths (a real resurrection!). Books have been written about short-term death experiences where the person is pictured as traveling toward bright lights, faces seen and voices heard of loved ones who have proceeded them in death, etc. All this points to the intense interest we have in wanting to know about these things.
(As an aside, I don't buy into any of the accounts where people claimed to have died and somehow came back to life to describe for us what they saw and heard. We are told in Hebrews 9:27, "people are destined to die once". Not just some people, and not just sometimes. We all go through death once, except for exceptional accounts given us in the Scriptures, such as the death and raising to life of Mary and Martha's brother, Lazarus. I've heard too many of these accounts over the years that always seem to fall apart later, for one reason or another.)
"The Spirit of the Lord spoke through me; his word was on my tongue."
Of the last words spoken by David, he claimed the Lord spoke through him. He said it was the Spirit of the Lord whose word was on his tongue. Much of the book of Psalms was authored by David, and so what David tells us is that what he had to say in the book of Psalms was either given him by God or that simply God spoke through him.
Peter makes a fascinating observation in regard to the production of the Scriptures, of which the book of Psalms is a part. He said, "Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet's own interpretation of things. For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit." 2 Peter 1:20-21.
This makes the reading of not just Psalms, but of all the Scriptures, a fascinating thing to do. We can listen to the very words of our Creator himself as we read the Scriptures! We live in a time when people seem desperate to know that God exists, that heaven exists, that there is life after our physical deaths (a real resurrection!). Books have been written about short-term death experiences where the person is pictured as traveling toward bright lights, faces seen and voices heard of loved ones who have proceeded them in death, etc. All this points to the intense interest we have in wanting to know about these things.
(As an aside, I don't buy into any of the accounts where people claimed to have died and somehow came back to life to describe for us what they saw and heard. We are told in Hebrews 9:27, "people are destined to die once". Not just some people, and not just sometimes. We all go through death once, except for exceptional accounts given us in the Scriptures, such as the death and raising to life of Mary and Martha's brother, Lazarus. I've heard too many of these accounts over the years that always seem to fall apart later, for one reason or another.)
In any event, our felt need to know of the hereafter, to know of heaven, to have a word from our Creator - can be fully satisfied as we read what our Lord has to say in the Scriptures. The sixty-six books in our Bibles constitute the most unusual library of all of literature in that they were created through an inexplicable process that involved men and the Holy Spirit, producing not what the men had in mind, but what God himself had in his mind!
Is that not fascinating, or what?!
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!
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Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!
If you have someone you would like to receive these ruminations, send me their email address. I'm happy to add them to the list. If you are receiving this and would like to be removed from the list, just respond and let me know.
Trevor Fisk
trevor.fisk@gmail.com
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