Sunday Jan 29, 2012: Genesis 3:1-13, Deuteronomy 5:2-3, 8:12-14, Jeremiah 3: 4-11

Psalm 13: How long, O LORD? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and every day have sorrow in my heart? How long will my enemy triumph over me? Look on me and answer, O LORD my God. Give light to my eyes,I will sleep in death; my enemy will say, ” I have overcome him,” and my foes will rejoice when I fall. But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation. I will sing to the LORD, for he has been good to me.

Genesis 3:1-13: Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?” The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.” “You will not surely die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” When the waman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves. Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden. But the LORD God called to the man, “Where are you?” He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.” And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?” The man said, “The woman you put here with me-she gave me some fruit from the tree, an I ate it.” Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” (??????????????????)

Genesis 2:8: Now the LORD God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden, and there he put the man he had formed.

Deuteronomy 5:2-3: The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb. It was not with our fathers that the LORD made his covenant, but with us, with all of us who are alive here today.

Deuteronomy 8:12-14: Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down, and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all you have is multiplied, then your heart will become proud and you will forget the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the hand of slavery.

Jeremiah 3: 4-11: “Take the belt you bought and are wearing around year waist, and go now to perath and hide it there in a crevice in the rocks.” So I went and hid it at Perath, as the LORD told me. Many days later the LORD said to me, “Go now to Perath and get the belt I told you to hide there.” So I went to Perath and dug up the belt and took it from the place where I had hidden it, but now it was ruined and completely useless. Then the word of the LORD came to me: “This is what the LORD says: ‘In the same way I will ruin the pride of Judah and the pride of Jerusalem. These wicked people, who refuse to listen to my words, who follow the stubbornness of their hearts and go after other gods to serve and worship them, will be like this belt-completely useless. For as a belt is bound around a man’s waist, so I bound the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah to me, declares the LORD, ‘to be my people for my renown and praise and honor. But they have not listened.’ “Say to them; “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Every wineskin should be filled with wine.’ And if they say to you, ‘Don’t we know that every wineskin should be filled with wine?” Then tell them, ‘This is what the LORD says: I am going to fill with drunkenness all who live in this land, including the kinds who sit on David’s throne, the priests, the prophets, and all those living in Jerusalem. I will smash them one against the otehr, fathers and sons alike, declares the LORD. I will allow no pity or mercy or compassion to keep me from destroying them.”

Samuel 16:7: A heart in every thought renewed and full of love divine, perfect and right and pure and good, a copy, lord, of thine. The LORD looketh on the heart.; in bible, “But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.” (i am not good at scripture; yesterday, learned from the pastor that words from scripture should be interpreted in context of the whole story of that part of scripture.)

“The LORD, What Is it? What Now?“

“where have you been? when i was going through the valley of death, where have you been? what were you doing? where have you been all these times? such a cold heart.”