Be With Me: 7 Minutes of Biblical Wonder
Be With Me is a daily 7 minute chronological walk through the New Testament hosted by Michael Smith. It is for everyone who is curious about what Jesus actually said and did in the gospels. Most episodes will leave you with at least one good thought to chew on for the rest of the day. We start with the Bible and hopefully end with Awe. We are walking through the chronological events of Jesus' life and then thoughtfully considering them. It is meant to spur the devotional life of the Christian and the not-yet-Christian. We occasionally venture into the Old Testament when it helps our understanding of the New Testament events. Everybody has 7 minutes. Everybody needs to wonder. Be With Me is hosted by Michael Smith who has absolutely no special qualifications to do a podcast. He is not a pastor. He has not been to seminary. He does not lead a mega-church. He is not a professional and he has no more credentials than you do. He does, however, follow a great God with an observant eye and a curious heart. Each day, he starts with a study bible and aims for astonishment. ‘be with him’ for 7 minutes as he sets out daily to discover the God who invites us to ‘Be With Me.’
Be With Me: 7 Minutes of Biblical Wonder
If God’s hands have made my hands, it changes everything. Ps119 s30e65
What if God’s hands have made my hands? If God even made my pinkie, it changes everything.
If my hands are made by HIM, then what these hands do regarding work; what these hands consider regarding who these hands hold, and to WHO THESE HANDS ARE RAISED IN WORSHIP is all affected.
Who made your pinkie? If it was you, you can skip the next part. If it wasn't you, then listen carefully to the next 7 minutes. It changes everything. Subscribe to change everything tomorrow too.
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What if God’s hands have made my hands?
If God’s hands have made my hands, it changes everything. Ps119 s30e65
73 Your hands have made and fashioned me;
give me understanding that I may learn your commandments.
74 Those who fear you shall see me and rejoice,
because I have hoped in your word.
75 I know, O Lord, that your rules are righteous,
and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
76 Let your steadfast love comfort me
according to your promise to your servant.
77 Let your mercy come to me, that I may live;
for your law is my delight.
78 Let the insolent be put to shame,
because they have wronged me with falsehood;
as for me, I will meditate on your precepts.
79 Let those who fear you turn to me,
that they may know your testimonies.
80 May my heart be blameless in your statutes,
that I may not be put to shame!
What if God’s hands have made my hands?
If God’s hands have made my hands, it changes everything. Recall Ps139
13 For you formed my inward parts;
you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
my soul knows it very well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
in your book were written, every one of them,
the days that were formed for me,
when as yet there was none of them.
The greatest witness to me, of the existence of God, is the existence of ME
The fact that I am here tells me there is a creator. I didn’t do this.
Though I enjoy the fruit of this amazing machine that is my body, I know that I was not the originator of this machine. This only points to You, Creator.
My soul knows the mastery of your production, the wonder of your works. With the big witness: BECAUSE I AM ONE OF THEM
SOUL KNOWS this.
.. Where did all my parts come from? You formed my inward parts.
I say again: If the hands of God made my hands it changes everything.
73 Your hands have made and fashioned me;
give me understanding that I may learn your commandments.
If this is true then allegiance and appreciation and accountability is due.
If indeed we are created and fashioned by Him then we have some work to do:
Give me understanding. I am not the boss. You have made the rules.
I need to agree that you are the rulemaker. That there are rules.
Ps119 calls them commandments, laws, Your Word, rules, promises, precepts, testimonies, statutes: that is just ONE of the 22 8 verse stanza.
Then, I need to understand, yield, agree, know them, obey them
If your Hands have made these hands then these hands are beholden to you:
In production of work—what these hands do for work
In faithfulness as to whose hands these hold—what these hands do re women
In WHO these hands worship.
Three big W’s of life: work, women, worship. 3 things you gotta get right
If my hands are made by HIM, then what these hands do regarding work; what these hands consider regarding who they hold—both in affection and in fellowship, and to WHO THESE HANDS ARE RAISED IN WORSHIP is all affected.
Ps. 119 v.73 says YOUR hands have fashioned my hands and I need to get busyunderstanding some stuff because of it. Let me say it negatively:
If He did not create these hands, then I am not beholden to the Creator
Can understand the inclination for the soul to say: I am not created by a Creator
It gets me off the hook of accountability, allegiance and appreciation
It lets me do what I want regarding Work, Women, and Worship
But if Ps119 has this one truth in it, it changes everything
If I am created, even if my pinkie is created, then I am indebted
If my hand is Ordered by Him, then I am obligated in what these hands do WORK
If my hand is produced by Him, then I must respond in PRAISE WORSHIP
If my hand is made my Him, then I He gets the call regarding Marriage activities WOMEN
If my had is formed by HIm,then I am bound to what what He has ordained regarding who is family,
,if He orders then He gets to ORDAIN
If He authors then He has all rights to AUTHORITY
If He makes then He can MOLD.
He can change: Give me understanding. Let me hope in your word. Comfort me according to your promice. Help me to delight in You.
If He can make, He can mold: Let us let Him mold us into what and who He has made us FOR. Your hands are made. Now let them be molded.
He has ordered you: so do right in work, women and worship
Because He’s AUTHORED, we fall under accountability, allegiance and appreciation
If God’s hands have made my hands, it changes everything.