January 16 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Genesis 46-47
Key Verse– Genesis 46:1 And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.
PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO WELCOMES OUR OFFERINGS AND SACRIFICES
Praise be to God for welcoming us to offer sacrifices unto Him Who:
Speaks to us with His “I am God” with assertion
Secures us with His “Fear not” assurance
Settles us with His “I will surely bring thee up” affirmation.
Genesis 47:12 Praise be to the Lord for nourishing us with His:
Bread’s bountifulness despite famine and fruitlessness
Benefits’ blissfulness despite failure of money
Business’ bonuses despite fear of futility. Amen!
January 16, 2024
I have been sold plastic gold twinklets
by Bedouin children at Beersheba
I have collected eggs from squawking hens
under some azure Kibbutz Hasolelim sky
I have seen the inclarity of the religiously saved
at Mea Shearim
But I have never crossed the green line
I have been to the biblical Safed, which lit fires at festivals
or scrapped my knees at Mount Masada
I have been adopted by 2 families in Ashkelon
one ostensibly poor
the other deemed rich
But I have never crossed the green line
They told me the Gospel spoke about Him.
I've searched Dan to Beersheba
but could not find the women he festered.
They asked why I can't see what they see,
I told them my head is too unreasonable
to pass the test of poisoned goat,
and to invite unseen critters to stay overnight.
I refused the washing before I spoke to Him.
Anything to get to my head. They came
at me with Razer phones telling me they
wanted to sever ties between my shoulders,
I changed my Facebook profile before
I smile again, but they came at me with
a young man crying the story of Yusuf.
Someone must have lied about the paddocks
that pasture my emotions; there are no apertures
in the fences. I did not hesitate to ask his reasons,
they did not hesitate to rejoin, the prologue
by Him contains the newest explorations
and oldest disclosures. I find that hard to believe.
It is not good to play with God; I saw him
burned a statue of Jesus with lightening.
Did you hear about the charge
On that faithful day
At 4 o’clock in the afternoon
It was the desert you see
And water was like gold
When the Australian Light Horse
Charged Beersheba that day
Chauvel lined them up
And with bayonets in hand
They charged the Turk trenches down
They won the wells for a long cool drink
Breaking the Ottoman Empire
To start the march to Israeli independence
And a place in the world history’s page.
© Paul Warren Poetry