Wherever you are God provides.

God is the provider. People who ate from his hands usually do not recognize it. Israelites openly said to Jeremiah that they ate well when they worship the stars. Jer. 44:17. God brought them to starving. Jer. 52:6

Jacob said that the angel who fed him will bless Joseph's sons. He knew that God sent angel to provide him yet he doesn't say that there is an angel god. He knows that God sends through angels. 

• Elijah was at the brook. God sent birds
• Elijah was in the wilderness. God sent an angel
• Elijah was in Zarepath. God sent a widow

Wherever you are, God sends some one to provide you. It seems that Elijah never worries about food. He did not say that birds provided, angel provided or a widow provided. 

When Elijah was at the brook, the brook was dried up after a while. God allows it that the brook may not become his god. In India, some of our brothers worship rivers. Some people say that they are independent. What they do mean is that they don't depend on any one but upon God. But i want to tell them that if they depend on God, they are not independent but dependent. Its actually a blessing. 


Its not only about the food. Its about your every need. God is the provider, wherever you are. 

Psalm 85 God's wrath and our sin

Ps 85:2-5 ​​​​​​​You pardoned the wrongdoing of your people; ​​​​​​you forgave all their sin. (Selah). ​​​​You withdrew all your fury; ​​​​​​you turned back from your raging anger.​​​​​​​Restore us, O God our deliverer! ​​​​​​Do not be displeased with us! Will you stay mad at us forever? ​​​​​​Will you remain angry throughout future generations?

The psalmist says that the Lord has forgiven them. He also said that the Lord has withdrew his fury. The same person again asks God if he would remain angry in future generations.

The Lord can turn back from his raging war. It doesnt mean that he is okay with the sin. Phinehas killed a couple and the plague stopped. God said, "though i was not at peace, i stopped plague. its because we need to deal with our sin. We need to atone our sin. When the angel was killing the people because of David's sin, the Lord relented and said to angel to stop. The angel stopped but did not put the sword back into its pouch. After David made atonement, the plague stopped.

You are very precious

If some animal of the earth dies, man is the reason. If some animal of the sea dies, man is the reason. If something dies in the birds of the sky, man is the reason. If God comes down and dies, man is the reason.

You are very very important. Here on earth everyone talks about God the Father. Go to heaven and see. Everyone talks about you. Ask the moving cloud where it’s going. It would say that the Lord sent her to rain on people in certain area. Ask the angel who is on his way. He would say that he is going to meet some person on earth. Whole heaven is for you.

You are very precious to the Father. He is actually working on you. You are the crown of his whole creation. David said, “Whom do I have in heaven but you? (Ps. 73:25).  We did not hear what God would say to us. He would say, “Whom do I have on earth but you my son/daughter”. Before Jacob would go and meet the Lord, God met him in the dream. Before Jacob would say, I do not leave you until you bless me; Lord told him I will not leave you until I fulfill what I have promised you. (Gen. 28:15)

You are very precious to the Lord. 

Isaiah 6:3-4

Isaiah Chapter 6

v. 3. “Holy, holy, holy"
They could not sing except than what they could see. I don't think we can ask these angels to write a song. Their song cannot be long enough. They sing only few things because they are occupied by many things that they could not comprehend. We understand God the Father by seeing that were created (Rom. 1:20). Angels now seeing the Creator and he cannot be fully grasped. Oh my God!

 v.4. "At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook" 

It seems worship shakes the doorposts and thresholds of any physical things. Acts 16:25-26

 "About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God... Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken...."

In New Testament, we see the same result. When Paul and Silas were singing while praying the prison shook and the doors were opened.

The difference between OT and NT is that, in OT while worship was going on the enemies were confused and killed themselves (2 Chr. 20:21-23). Here in NT jailer also was about to kill himself but since NT comes with a different teaching of forgiveness, Paul saved him. That night the deliverance was not for the Paul and Silas, but it was for the jailer.

Isaiah 6:1-2

Isaiah 6:1-2 NIV

"In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord,"

King Uzziah is a symbol for pride. When pride died, Isaiah was able to see the Lord. He has been a prophet yet he did not see the Lord before. He prophesied five chapters until now. From here is a different story. We may be prophets or so called servants of God. Yet it takes humbleness and lack of pride to see the Lord. 

"...train of his robe filled the temple."

We usually think that the Lord is in his temple. Now the temple is in his train. Any big temple cannot contain God the Father. He humbles himself to meet us and fit in our humble rooms because he is in love with his people. 

"...With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet,"

The word "they covered" sounds that they are exposed to something that they could not bear. They have been there for decades yet they are not accustomed to the power of his presence. Some worship-leaders are casual because it has been usual to them. These angels are telling us that the Lord is new to them in every fraction of a second. This experience is really awesome, glorious. Wow! What a wonderful God I have!

Love you Lord!!

Ex 26:31-33 My Saviour on the Vail

It reminds me the Sacrifice of my Saviour

Exod 26:31 

"And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet"

These colors came because they got to kill a jelfish and some worms. So it is a vail of sacrifice. ".... And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?"(Heb. 1:14)

Jesus was that worm and the fish. He was killed. He said, "But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people." (Ps. 22:6)

God wants to have the remembrance of Jesus on the vail of most holy place. Jesus was rejected by people like a worm and he also went through a painful thought of Father forsaking him. If someone looks us down like a worm or forsakes you, remember that you are nearest place to the Lord, near to his most holy place. He takes you to very near to him. 

It reminds me Faithful One

"with cherubims shall it be made"

Cherubims are the intimate angels of the Lord. They stand in the presence of the Lord. Faithful can watch the face of the Lord. Moses is a faithful man. The Lord said about him, "...and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold"  (Num. 12:8)

When Gabriel said "I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto thee" (Luke 1:19), it was like he was questioning "how come you dont believe me?" The question at the moses' incident was "wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?"

The punishment to Zacharias was to be dumb and the punishment at the Moses' incident was Leprosy. If FAITHFUL can watch the face of the Lord its like a WARNING to us if we dont believe them. According to John 1:18 Jesus is the only one that saw the Father. He is named "...These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness..." Rev. 3:14 What if we dont believe this faithful Jesus?

He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Heb. 11:28-31

It reminds me my Saviour on the nails

Exod 26:32 And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold, upon the four sockets of silver.

This remembers the Lord who hanged on the nails. It is a vail on nails. Jesus hanged on the nails. 

It reminds me my Savior who rent his body

Exod 26:33 ... and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy.

The word for dividing here is "parochet". This is from the word paroch which means divide or rend etc. Jesus was that veil divided. By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; Heb. 10:20