12/23/10
Dear Jehovah God,
For the king with scoffers’ hearts are like an oven as they approach their plotting; their anger smolders all night, in the morning it burns like a flaming fire.
You will make them as a fiery oven in the time of Your anger; Jehovah will swallow them up in Your wrath, and fire will devour them.
For Behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and every evil does will be chaff; and the day that is coming will set them ablaze so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.
The Lord has swallowed up; He has not spared all the habitations of Jacob. In His wrath He has thrown down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has brought them down to the ground; He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.
May our God come and no keep silence; fire devours before You, and it is very tempestuous around You.
Please do not let me have a heart like an oven. Please do not let me plot or ambush. Do not let my heart be hot. Do not let me be angry. May the anger of others not smolder all night, nor in the morning may the anger not burn like a flaming fire. How do I put out the anger?
How do I know scoffers and those who are angry? How do I put out the flaming fire of anger? Why are they angry? What am I supposed to do?
Why do You teach me about the king and the princes? Why do You teach me about scoffers? Why do You teach me about their hearts? Am I like that? Is it so I won’t be like that? What am I supposed to do with the information?
I don’t want to be that way but I do want to do something about it. How do I stop their plotting? What do I do about the plotting or an ambush?
What are You teaching me? I don’t understand. Please do not let the devil snatch away all Your precepts for my life nor Your ordinances nor Your judgments nor Your testimonies. Help me to put it into my heart and into my brain.
Let the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable in Your sight O Jehovah, my Rock and my Redeemer. Amen, Amen, and Amen.