OzThoughts Monday 20th April, 2009.

OzThoughts Monday 20th April, 2009.

Many Australians joke about their Prime Minister and his many trips overseas to meet in conferences with other national leaders. Some talk about his rare visits to Australia. When a conference of leaders was recently cancelled because of protestors, he was already on his way there and his plane came back to Australia. Some commentators joked about him being forced back to Australia and others talked about him reluctantly returning. Some more seriously suggest he has aspirations for higher position on the world stage with a seat on the United Nations Security Council.

You will see why I thought about this when you read Psalm 2. Do not miss the main message though. It is a call back to God and to give up our own foolish ways:

Worship God in adoring embrace,
Celebrate in trembling awe. Kiss Messiah!
Your very lives are in danger, you know;
His anger is about to explode,
But if you make a run for God—you won't regret it!

PRAYER: (Using our Song Book as a Prayer Book) :

[Listen: http://www.salvoaudio.com/audio/songs/songs_047.mp3 ]

Mine to rise when thou dost call me,
Lifelong though the journey be;
Thine to measure all its windings,
Leading step by step to thee.

Chorus
I am thine, O Lord and Master,
Thine to follow to the end
Thou art mine, O Christ my Saviour.
Guide and helper, lover, friend!

Mine to follow, even blindly,
Thine, O Christ, to go before;
Mine to try and scale the barrier,
Thine to fling an open door.

Mine to smile in face of failure,
Thine to gladden my defeat;
Mine to kneel and drink of Marah,
Thine to make its waters sweet.

Thine the sealing and revealing
All the outcome of my vow,
As I give thee soul and body,
Mine no longer, thine just now.
Author: Susie Forrest Swift (1862-1916)
The Salvation Army Song Book: Song Number: 510

Psalm 2 (The Message)

1-6 Why the big noise, nations?
Why the mean plots, peoples?
Earth-leaders push for position,
Demagogues and delegates meet for summit talks,
The God-deniers, the Messiah-defiers:
"Let's get free of God!
Cast loose from Messiah!"
Heaven-throned God breaks out laughing.
At first he's amused at their presumption;
Then he gets good and angry.
Furiously, he shuts them up:
"Don't you know there's a King in Zion? A coronation banquet
Is spread for him on the holy summit."

7-9 Let me tell you what God said next.
He said, "You're my son,
And today is your birthday.
What do you want? Name it:
Nations as a present? continents as a prize?
You can command them all to dance for you,
Or throw them out with tomorrow's trash."

10-12 So, rebel-kings, use your heads;
Upstart-judges, learn your lesson:
Worship God in adoring embrace,
Celebrate in trembling awe. Kiss Messiah!
Your very lives are in danger, you know;
His anger is about to explode,
But if you make a run for God—you won't regret it!

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