Grateful Living

Psalm 30

I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me. O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me. O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit. Sing unto the LORD, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness. For his anger endureth  but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved. LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled. I cried to thee, O LORD; and unto the LORD I made supplication. What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth? Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper. Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing; thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness; To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.-Psalm 30:1-12/the complete psalm***Isaiah the prophet was an Israelite descended from Abraham (Abram the Hebrew) and Sarah (Sarai), Isaac and Rebekah, and Isaac and Rebekah's youngest fraternal twin son Jacob (Israel). Over 1,000 years before Isaiah began proclaiming the words of the Lord God to the Israelites, and called for the rulers in Judah, the southern nation in the Promised Land, to come and reason with the Lord God, Abraham reasoned with the Lord God about the possible destruction of righteous people in Sodom, Gomorrah and the surrounding region. Aaron and his younger  brother Moses were Israelites from the tribe of Levi, descended from Jacob and his 1st wife Leah, and Jacob and Leah's 3rd born son Levi. When Moses was 80 years old and Aaron was 83, the Lord God sent them to speak to the Israelite elders and Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. After the Lord God brought the 10th and final plague upon Pharaoh and Egypt, Moses and Aaron led the Israelites, and those with them, away from Egyptian slavery, across the divinely parted Red Sea, and into the desert wilderness of Shur. In the desert wilderness of Sinai, in the region of Mount Sinai, the Israelites heard the voice of the Lord God proclaim the Ten Commandments to them, and the Lord God began giving Moses judgments, statutes and laws for the Israelites, and the Lord God made a covenant with the Israelites, and the Israelites said they would obey the words of the Lord God. When Moses was upon Mount Sinai 40 days and nights with the Lord God, the Lord God described to Moses and showed Moses the likeness of the tabernacle, and the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and the other sacred items that the Israelites were to make, and the Lord God gave Moses 2 stone tablets whereupon were written, with the finger of God, the Ten Commandments. Meanwhile, the Israelites thought they were abandoned and told Aaron to make gods to lead them. Aaron told the Israelites to bring him their gold earrings and he made a golden calf that the Israelites worshiped and Moses burned and ground. The Lord God wanted to destroy the Israelites and make a great nation of Moses. Moses reasoned with the Lord God and reminded the Lord God about the promises made to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. At least 1 year later, 10 of the 12 spies Moses sent on a mission to Canaan, the Promised Land, returned with a frightening report. The Israelites wanted to return to Egypt. The Lord God wanted to destroy the Israelites and make a nation of Moses, and Moses reasoned with the Lord God and reminded the Lord God about the thoughts the Egyptians and people in other nations would have if the Israelites were destroyed. Sometime thereafter, Korah and the Israelites with him rebelled. The Lord God wanted to destroy the Israelites, and Moses and Aaron reasoned with the Lord God and mentioned the injustice of destroying all of the Israelites due to the actions of some of the Israelites. Samuel the priest, prophet and judge was from the tribe of Levi, and David was from the tribe of Jacob and Leah's 4th born son Judah. Over a decade after David was born, the Lord God sent Samuel to Bethlehem to anoint David to reign as king. David was 30 years old when he began to reign only over the tribe of Judah, and David was 37 1/2 years old when he began to rule over all of the Israelites in the Promised Land, the land that the Lord God promised to give to Abraham, and Isaac and to Jacob, and their descendants. In psalms that David was divinely inspired to write, David described praising and worshiping the Lord God and reasoning with the Lord God. At least 950 years after Solomon, a son born to David and Bathsheba, became the 3rd king to rule over all of the Israelites, and 70-year-old David died, John the Baptist and Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, were born. John the Baptist was born into the tribe of Levi to Zechariah (Zacharias) the priest and his wife Elizabeth (dElisabeth). Jesus the Christ was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Elizabeth's relative Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born in Bethlehem into the tribe of Judah to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin. Approximately 30 years after John the Baptist and Jesus the Christ were born, Jesus was baptized in the Jordan River by John the Baptist. Jesus having prayed, the heavens tearing open, the Holy Spirit descended as a dove and lit upon Jesus. The Lord God in heaven audibly acknowledged his Son Jesus, and the Holy Spirit led Jesus into the desert wilderness. Jesus fasted 40 days and nights and was tempted. Afterwards, Jesus was tended to by angels, and Jesus went to the area near John the Baptist, and John the Baptist proclaimed Jesus to be the Lamb of God taking away the sin of the world, and testified that Jesus is the Son of God. In Galilee, Jesus told specific Israelite men to follow him, and Jesus began to preach, teach and perform miracles among the Israelites. Jesus spoke of Isaiah and the prophecies Isaiah revealed, and Jesus read in a synagogue some of the words Isaiah was divinely inspired to transcribe.-Genesis 11:26-50:26, Exodus, Numbers 10:1-16:50, 20:1-29, 27:12-23, Deuteronomy 1:1-46, 9:1-10:22, 31:1-30, 32:44-52, 34:1-12, Joshua 1:1-4:24, 23:1-24:33, Judges 1:1-2:23, 1 Samuel 1:1-3:21, 8:1-31:13, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings 1:1-11:43, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 10:1-29:30, 2 Chronicles 1:1-9:31, Psalm 6, Isaiah 1:1-31, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26

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