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In God’s sanctuary the psalmist was instructed to take only God Himself as his portion, not anything other than God. The one who does not care for God may gain many things and seem to prosper. However, the one who cares for God will be restricted by God and even stripped by God of many things, as was the case with Job (Job 1:6-22; 2:1-10) and the apostle Paul (Phil. 3:7-8). God’s intention with His seekers is that they may find everything in Him and not be distracted from the absolute enjoyment of Himself. It is not a matter of keeping the law, as in Psa. 1, or of being right or wrong, but of gaining God and keeping God as everything. Psa. 73:26, footnote 1, Recovery Version Bible #sanctuary #god knowGod #enjoyGod #triuneGod #careforGod more at www.agodman.com https://www.instagram.com/p/CMvXb6ehP_M/?igshid=7ec0ic6rohee

The case of Gedaliah is the case of a person who was not one with God; although Gedaliah was faithful in caring for Jeremiah, God’s prophet, he did not seek the Lord’s word, because this was not his habit — Jer. 40:5-6, 13-14. Gedaliah did not take God as his source to be one with Him and to receive whatever issued from Him; if he had been a person who was one with God, the first thing he would have done would have been to receive the word of God. To take, to receive, and to keep the word of God as the expression of His thought, His will, His heart’s desire, and His good pleasure, we must be absolutely one with God, trusting in Him, relying on Him, and not having any opinion that comes from the self — cf. 2 Cor. 1:8-9. Crystallization-study of Jeremiah, outline 6 #careforgod #god #bible #christ #jeremiah more at www.agodman.com https://www.instagram.com/p/CF0WtdiB2Or/?igshid=iefbrm67yx8t