PJP2 THANKS 151119 THANKS Focus Ezekiel 21:25-27....

Psalm 86:5-7 (ESV)/(emphasis added/jaj)...."For You, O Lord, Are Good and Forgiving, Abounding in Steadfast Love to All Who Call Upon You.  Give Ear, O Lord, to my prayer; Listen to my plea for Grace.  In the day of my trouble I Call Upon You, for You Answer me."....

PJP2 THANKS TEXT 151119 - Ezekiel 21:25-27 (ESV)/(emphasis added/jaj)...."'And you, O profane wicked one, prince of Israel, whose Day Has Come, The Time of your Final Punishment', thus Says The Lord God: 'Remove the turban and take off the crown. Things Shall Not Remain as they are. Exalt That which is low, and Bring Low that which is Exalted.  A ruin, ruin, ruin I Will Make it. This also shall Not Be, Until He Comes, The One to Whom Judgment Belongs, And I Will Give It to Him."....

One may ponder this Passage of the Word Select (POWS) and wonder how one might be Thankful and find a Word of Encouragement from The Spirit's Inspired POWS.  Indeed, I would say as I first read the POWS here this morning, I too was scratching my noggin' with what The Holy Spirit kept bringing me back to Ezekiel 21:25-27.  So here's the three Thanks I have as Guided by The Spirit's nudging - (1) God's Economy; (2) God's Equitable Justice; (3) Our Lord Jesus is The One

When we view Life through man's mismangement of God's Economy, it is so easy to become discouraged.  Yet, as we see in Ezekiel 21:25-27, and our Lord Jesus corroborates in Matthew 20:16...."(Jesus said to them), So the Last will Be First, and the first last."  God's Economy is nothing like the way we men boof it.  I am Thankful for His Word and Truth will Reveal that He's Blessed and continues to Bless us in such a way that what we have seen as the last will be Made First, and what we have seen as 'The FIrst' will be made last.  Which leads me to God's Fair Justice - as He Shares with us time and again, IF we will Focus on Him, His Way for our Lives, and Walk In His Steps, THEN (I am also Thankful for The Lord's Straightforward "IF - THEN" Concept/jaj)....THEN we Will Live with Him in His Way.  IF we DO NOT Focus on Him, choose our own selfish way.....THEN we reap the consequences of what we Sow with and in our Lives.  God's Justice is indeed quite equitable.  Lastly I am Thankful for God The Father Planting His Prophecy of our Lord Jesus' Coming to give us Hope in Him.

Thus let me leave you with our opening Word of Praise as our Closing Benediction today....Psalm 86:5-7 (ESV)/(emphasis added/jaj)...."For You, O Lord, Are Good and Forgiving, Abounding in Steadfast Love to All Who Call Upon You.  Give Ear, O Lord, to my prayer; Listen to my plea for Grace.  In the day of my trouble I Call Upon You, for You Answer me."....

Blessings to you and yours/jaj