Musings.

Genesis 13:5-18
Now Lot, who went with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents. And the land could not sustain them while dwelling together, for their possessions were so great that they were not able to remain together. And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. Now the Canaanite and the Perizzite were dwelling then in the land.

So Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no strife between you and me, nor between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are brothers. “Is not the whole land before you? Please separate from me; if to the left, then I will go to the right; or if to the right, then I will go to the left.”

Lot lifted up his eyes and saw all the valley of the Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere—this was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah—like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt as you go to Zoar. So Lot chose for himself all the valley of the Jordan, and Lot journeyed eastward. Thus they separated from each other. Abram settled in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled in the cities of the valley, and moved his tents as far as Sodom. Now the men of Sodom were wicked exceedingly and sinners against the Lord.

The Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, “Now lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward; for all the land which you see, I will give it to you and to your descendants forever. “I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth, so that if anyone can number the dust of the earth, then your descendants can also be numbered. “Arise, walk about the land through its length and breadth; for I will give it to you.” Then Abram moved his tent and came and dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and there he built an altar to the Lord.

Hebrews 11:8-9

By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed by going out to a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he was going. By faith he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow heirs of the same promise;

Jeremiah 12:5

“If you have run with footmen and they have tired you out, Then how can you compete with horses? If you fall down in a land of peace, How will you do in the thicket of the Jordan?

Exodus 2:23-25

Now it came about in the course of those many days that the king of Egypt died. 

And the sons of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and 

they cried out; and 

their cry for help because of their bondage rose up to God. So 

God heard their groaning; and 

God remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 

God saw the sons of Israel, and 

God took notice of them.

Psalm 119:1-2

How blessed are those whose way is blameless, 

Who walk in the law of the Lord. 

How blessed are those who observe His testimonies, 

Who seek Him with all their heart.

Psalm 119:9-11

How can a young man keep his way pure? 

By keeping it according to Your word. 

With all my heart I have sought You; 

Do not let me wander from Your commandments. 

Your word I have treasured in my heart, 

That I may not sin against You.

Psalm 119:19

I am a stranger in the earth; Do not hide Your commandments from me.

Psalm 119:25-26

My soul cleaves to the dust; 

Revive me according to Your word.

I have told of my ways, and You have answered me; 

Teach me Your statutes.

Psalm 119:37-38

Turn away my eyes from looking at vanity, 

And revive me in Your ways. 

Establish Your word to Your servant, 

As that which produces reverence for You.
(Exo 5-15)

Psalm 119:130

The unfolding of Your words gives light; 

It gives understanding to the simple.

Psalm 119:97-100
O how I love Your law! It is my meditation all the day.
Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, For they are ever mine.
I have more insight than all my teachers, For Your testimonies are my meditation.
I understand more than the aged, Because I have observed Your precepts.

Revelation 1:12-18

Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking with me. And having turned I saw seven golden lampstands; and in the middle of the lampstands 

I saw one like a son of man, clothed in a robe reaching to the feet, 

and girded across His chest with a golden sash. 

His head and His hair were white like white wool, like snow; 

and His eyes were like a flame of fire. 

His feet were like burnished bronze, when it has been made to glow in a furnace, and 

His voice was like the sound of many waters. 

In His right hand He held seven stars, and 

out of His mouth came a sharp two-edged sword; and 

His face was like the sun shining in its strength. 

When I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man. And He placed His right hand on me, saying, “Do not be afraid; 

I am the first and the last, and the living One; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.

1 Kings 2:1-4

As David’s time to die drew near, he charged Solomon his son, saying, 

“I am going the way of all the earth. 

Be strong, therefore, and show yourself a man. 

“Keep the charge of the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, to keep His statutes, His commandments, His ordinances, and His testimonies, according to what is written in the Law of Moses,

that you may succeed in all that you do and wherever you turn, 

so that the Lord may carry out His promise which He spoke concerning me, saying, 

‘If your sons are careful of their way, to walk before Me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, you shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.’

1 Timothy 5:1-2
Do not sharply rebuke an older man, but rather
appeal to him as a father,
to the younger men as brothers,
the older women as mothers, and
the younger women as sisters,
in all purity.