Let's pray together.

Father, I ask for your help now.

There are glorious things that we need to talk about concerning your infinite worth

and our reflection of it in corporate gatherings from the heart.

You are infinitely worthy of the most intense private and family and church gatherings to express your value.

Oh, that we might as a church in the world do this well.

Come and help me to be a little teeny part of advancing that.

I pray in Jesus' name.

Amen.

My alarm went off at 5.45 this morning, and I drugged myself out of bed. I took a shower. I went to my study. I closed the

blinds on the 11th Avenue side. And I knelt down at my bench that is designed for me.

And I opened this book to first Proverbs and then Isaiah.

And I read these words in Isaiah 34. The Lord is enraged against all nations and furious against all their hosts.

And I paused, lingered, and tried to let that have its God-design effect on my heart.

That is simply a sweeping, stunning statement.

The Lord is enraged against all nations.

And I thought of our session in which we discussed gravity.

Now, when you're reading through the prophets, you stumble across things like that regularly.

And the world doesn't think that way often.

God is angry at all the nations, furious at all their hosts.

This is not a mild displeasure.

This is fury, rage. And so I simply had to come to terms with the God who is

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