Even I Have Seen It...

"Has this house, which is called by My name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Behold, I, even I, have seen it," declares the LORD. This is Jeremiah 7:11. God is laying out His case against Israel for the coming judgement.

Even I, declares the Lord. Why the even I?

Personally, God declares He witnessed the Temple becoming filled with those that used His house for their sinful practices in Jeremiah's time, watching the judgements pile up on Israel. Why the even I?

Of course God sees everything, in person, for He is all seeing, a witness to all our crimes against Him. Why the even I?

But in this the Lord Jesus Christ was a witness twice, using this passage as prophecy for His witness of the corrupting of the temple that Herod built. Even I am a witness, saith the Lord, in the flesh. This is underlining the divinity of our Lord and Savior. Even I, the Incarnate God is a witness to the profaning of His temple. Even I, saith the Lord.

My study and my walk

First, I need to tell you I am just restarting my bible study, (using the format from A Puritan's Mind, and Biblegateway.) For some reason I start the year studying, and find excuses not to continue. It was really easy when my faith was fresh, oh those many (3) years ago. Now, well, there is stuff that always seems to have priority.

I think this is just the way of the world. Little things get seemingly inflated because they constantly nip on our heels yapping for attention. Eventually they become something we focus on. Or it might be that my heart just are not that into study, that I start to think of it as toiling in a field I had just toiled in. I KNOW the bible. I read it last year (poorly) and really don't want to have to re-plow that field. Then, soon, I am justifying other things, wandering off the path. I forget the updraft that reading the Word gives me. The joy of finding that nugget of truth that I had passed over so many times in my reading, and then AHA! What is this treasure? How is it I have never read THAT?!?

Well, I am again looking for that uplift. I know it is there, I know that I do not look to the Lord with the devotion I need to. Then is the time to fall on my face, to seek the Throne, the Cross and shrug off all the cares and rebellion that I have allowed to crawl up there and weigh me down. Rebellion? Yes, even that. Letting my life become the focus of my life is a form of rebellion. Where is that going to lead me? Lets just skip over that. I have had my years in the desert, thinking I have a great life (without the Lord.) How happy I seemed.

Anyway, enough of the reason why I am re-starting this abandoned machine.

I have put the key in, and the engine turns, Praise the Lord! Now lets open our bibles to where we are at in our study...

First Post, again...

I am posting this just 'cause there might be someone out there that wanders into this tiny blog for some reason, and they might want to know where they are.

You are here.

Where is here? This is just my journal, mostly about what I am taking in during my solo bible study, but also what I am doing, reading and seeing in my life.

Hey, if you like what you read, stick around and comment. If not, then may God speed you along in your life to where ever you are going.