Devotions: Ps 95, 102, 107:1-32; Jer 23:1-8; Rom 8:28-39; Jn 6:52-59
Let us sing to YHWH with joy and come before Him with songs of praise. All the earth, the skies and seas are His, for He made it all. Let us worship, kneeling and prostrate before YHWH our Maker. He is our God and we are His flock. My days pass away like smoke before You, my God. I toss and turn, uneasy in my skin. I wither away like grass in a drought. But You, YHWH, are enthroned forever. My own strength is gone; I have only God to lean on. But He is sufficient, and my children will live secure! God's steadfast love endures forever; let those He has redeemed testify to it! He has gathered His people from everywhere, delivering us from desert and wild places, from darkness and gloom, from prisons and shackles. He has healed the sick and delivered the suffering from their afflictions. He cares for those who ply the seas. He turns rivers to deserts, and deserts to lush meadows. The upright see God's power and are glad. Let the wise ponder these things, not least the steadfast love of YHWH!
Woe to the appointed shepherds who destroy and scatter those whom God favors! He will visit wickedness on them and gather the remnant of His flock, settle them and multiply them. He will give us shepherds who will care for us properly. And God will raise up a righteous Branch in the house of David, Who will reign as king and deal wisely, executing justice and righteousness among God's people. He will be known as YHWH Tsidkenu--'The Lord our Righteousness'. People will use the deliverance of God's people from the Diaspora as a way of talking about important events, and about God Himself: 'The Lord Who brought up and led the descendants of Israel out of the north country and all the countries where He had driven them.'
We know that in everything, God works for good to those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose. For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He might be the firstborn among many brothers. Those whom He predestined, He also called; and those whom He called, He also justified; and those whom He justified, God also glorified. What shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? He Who did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, graciously give us all things? Who could bring any charge against God's elect? It is God Who justifies, and God Who judges. Who is to condemn? It is the Messiah Jesus Who died and was raised from death; He is at the right hand of God, and He is the One Who indeed intercedes for us. Who shall separate us from the love of the Messiah? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As the scriptures put it, 'For Your sake we are being killed all day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.' No; in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him Who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in the Messiah Jesus, our Lord!
As they debated with Jesus, the Jews disputed among themselves: 'How can this man give us his flesh to eat?' So Jesus said to them, 'I tell you very truly, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink His blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For My flesh is food indeed, and My blood is drink indeed. Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blookd abides in Me and I in him. As the living Father sent Me, who whoever eats Me will live because of Me. This is the bread that came down from heaven; no like the ancestors ate and died. Truly, whoever eats this bread will live forever.' Jesus said this as He taught at in Capernaum.
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