"Wackadoodle" -2

"Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolutions; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary." (Psalms 74:3) Sorry if I offended you, if you are someone hooked on social media; it's not just Facebook, because there is a firestorm of outlets out there, something for everyone or anyone. Heck, who am I to talk, I have not missed a single day of making a post on this blog in over six years; but at least it's only a couple of hours in the morning, and then I am done for the day. But then again, I do often check my stats; I'm only human, because it's fun sometimes to see all the places where people are reading from. I don't think there is anywhere on the planet that has not visited this blog at least once. I even had a visit from places that I thought didn't even exist anymore, like Mesopotamia; but what do I know, I'm just a nut with a habit like everyone else. On the serious side, our hearts really do need some serious adjustment to those things that hurt God's heart; and don't think for a moment that God's heart does not hurt over some of the stuff that goes on here, because it most surely does. I remember when I was doing a teaching on Genesis chapter 7, and having a really good cry, as I was wrapping up the teaching on the last four verses, because three times God says, in three different way, "And all flesh died that moved upon the face of the earth." Which reminds me something about Genesis 6:6 (just so happens it's the sixth verse of the sixth chapter,) where it says, "And it repented the LORD that he made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart." Don't think for a moment that God has no clue of what was going to happen on this earth, because He always knows what's going to happen way before it ever happens; but just because He knows beforehand it's going to happen, does not mean He isn't grieved after it actually does. When you have a child, you think about all the bad things that could happen; you hope that they never do, but it's pretty much a given that your child will get hurt in one way or another during their lifetime; but that does not mean you don't want the child; and it surely does not mean you will not be grieved when it happens. And, you no doubt will have your heart broken by your child also, at least a few times while they are growing up; but you would not trade it for a single day of not having them at all. That word "repented" is a word that means 'sorry' or to be sorry, as in to suffer grief over something; it surely does not mean that God was repenting that He ever made man, because it is not something that God has the capacity to do; in other words, God does not say, "Oops, I am sorry I ever did that!" God does not make junk, or things that He never meant to make. He made everything good and perfect, it was man that messed everything up; but that does not mean God was done with man; no way, no how! Tell you what it did mean, in case you're interested: it meant He was grieved to put on flesh and save us; groaning in His Spirit, is more like it, as if He already knew perfectly well what He would eventually need to do...
"All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ. Even before He made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in His eyes. God decided in advance to adopt us into His own family by bringing us to Himself through Jesus Christ. This is what He wanted to do, and it gave Him great pleasure. So we praise God for the glorious grace He has poured out on us who belong to His dear Son. He is so rich in kindness and grace that He purchased our freedom with the blood of His Son and forgave our sins. He has showered His kindness on us, along with all wisdom and understanding." (Ephesians 1:3-8) NLT