Saturday, July 28, 2012

I will not be moved

Psalm 55:22 
Cast your burden on the Lordand he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.
(ESV)



Cast:  to throw or hurl; fling 
Burden: that which is born with difficulty; obligation
Sustain:  bear the weight of
Permit:  tolerate or allow
Moved: to pass from one position to another


Psalm 55:22
All of those difficult things you are holding onto... all of the world's obligations... fling them on the Lord, and he will bear the weight of them for you; he will never tolerate, he will never allow the righteous to pass from under his protection. 
(Courtney's word study version)

We cast our burdens on him; he bears the weight of them.  The cool thing is, we can only obtain righteousness through HIM.  He allows us to give Him our burdens.  

After that, He promises that we will never be moved because we are righteous.  (righteous...which HE made sure of...which WE had nothing to do with!).  It doesn't mean we won't have struggles (we are promised that we will: James 1:2-4, 1 Peter 5:10) because we live in this broken world, full of broken people and sometimes hardships push us in the right direction.  But, we'll never be apart from Him.  

We can't EVER lose.  Now that's some grace, right there...


**I didn't switch the word "righteous" because a dictionary wouldn't get it and I don't fully understand biblical righteousness.  Although, this study on words (a quick purely-from-dictionary.com-not-a-full -on-Strong's-concordance-study) has encouraged me to seek out the answer.  It's very confusing to me for some reason and I just can't get it.  The best I can figure it, the righteous are His.   So something along the lines of "he will never allow those that came to Him to pass from under his protection."  Or "those that said yes to Him..."    

In Romans 8:28 it says "And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose."  I have a feeling that is a good definition of righteous.  "Those who love God," and "those who are called according to his purpose." I bet that has something to do with it...

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