Notes of praise!

Thanks be to God for His Word. Strength and honor and truth and life are breathed into me as I read and partake of these readings. I think of Jesus on the cross, “My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me??” and could see how Jesus would have spoken these words from Psalm 71. And then I see how verses 20 and 21 20 You who have made me see many troubles and calamities
will revive me again;
from the depths of the earth
you will bring me up again.
21 You will increase my greatness
and comfort me again." speak of a resurrection! God is great and greatly to be praised? May my lips and heart become a lyre and a harp to unceasingly praise God with fervent, adoring praise!

Hosea 10:8 reads like Revelation 15-18 when wicked people cry out to the mountains and hills to cover them rather than repent and return to God. Hosea: 8 The high places of Aven, the sin of Israel,

shall be destroyed.
Thorn and thistle shall grow up
on their altars,
and they shall say to the mountains, “Cover us,”

and to the hills, “Fall on us.”

Revelation: "Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb!"

To think of Jesus quoting this scripture in Psalm 71:18 "So even to old age and gray hairs,

O God, do not forsake me,
until I proclaim your might to another generation,

your power to all those to come..." and knowing gray hairs or old age were never going to be something He would need to be concerned with has much sorrow in it…