Share. I will forgive their wickedness and remember their sins no more (Hebrews 8: 12 NIV). We now see what we can do to receive and accept His goodness, the glory and miracles. 40:5) shall see Gods glory revealed in the earth. They were in bondage in Babylon. Why is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? If He does this, He will always be near and He will give the strength to endure). The crooked roads shall become straight, the rough ways smooth. They shall be greatly ashamed, The peoples labor for nothing, and the nations weary themselves only for fire., Thus says the Lord: Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches, but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. Give him time to get this done. The crookedness in God's creation began with a created being, Satan, whose heart was lifted up, who thought of himself more highly than he should. It can also be a twisted place, like the coils of a serpent. And crooked places straight. We become aware that things are not sitting right and things are not running as they should by these inner alerts. Life is about choices and selecting a pathway for our future, so why would we go down a track that is not right for us? Why will you still be struck down? They dont consider that the author of Ecclesiastes walked by sight when he said Observe the work of God, for who can straighten what he has made crooked? Bartholomew says. But now hear, O Jacob my servant, Israel whom I have chosen! 29 He gives power to the weak, And cut the bars of iron. Q And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your young men shall see visions, Your old men shall dream dreams. Like when we are restricted by bars of iron, it is like an imprisonment, we are caged in and our movement is blocked. It's an encouragement to know that we serve a God Who will make the crooked places straight, make the rough places smooth, level the exalted places, and level the mountains. Craig G. Bartholomew, Ecclesiastes (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2009), p. 250. Then He reveals the treasures that are hidden and are covered by the darkness, the light is turned on to reveal treasures, that are new ways of living, pathways to success. Then shall the crooked be made straight. But he said to me,My grace is sufficient for you, formy power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so thatthe power of Christ may rest upon me. This ongoing voice calls us to His service. Mankinds first encounter with satan in Scripture was in the Garden of Eden, where satan made the straight paths of Adam and Eve crooked by using deceit and wickedness, with their permission. The mountains will be brought down, reduced to level ground that you can easily walk through and your vision wont be blocked anymore, you will be able to see the sun shining through and the brightness of your new day. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.. Psalm 107:16 For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder. As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. Ask God to make them straight and smooth. Justice, I am hard pressed between the two. You could say that with mankind there was an original Genuine Version made, but then things got corrupted on the way and a very insidous hacker got a virus in and then we became, this ongoing fallen behaviour persons of this worlds system. While they were there, her husband died, as did her two sons. shut: 2 'I will go before you And make the crooked places straight; I will break in pieces the gates of bronze And cut the bars of iron. People trying to hinder you or make you look bad. God is into progress in your life not dead standstills. And God will make our crooked places straight. Thus says the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped, to subdue nations before him and to loose the belts of kings, to open doors before him that gates may not be closed: I will go before you and level the exalted places, I will break in pieces the doors of bronze and cut through the bars of iron, I will give you the treasures of darkness and the hoards in secret places, that you may know that it is I, the Lord, the God of Israel, who call you by your name. Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born? Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. 16 I will bring the blind by a way they did not know; It cost him dearly in the death of their son and three of his other sons. I will go before you, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron: Isaiah 13:4-17 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.
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