Saturday March 20th 2021
hat I am about to describe happens at least a couple times every year, and every time it happens I feel like telling people about it because I find it neat.It is delightful when reading the Bible - not following a set plan but some pattern of my own choosing - when I read a chapter in, let's say, some book of the Old Testament and then I read a chapter in a gospel that references a verse in that Old Testament chapter that I had just read. There is nothing of significance about this; I just, as I said, find it delightful.
An example from this week is that on Thursday I was reading Jeremiah 51. On this day, a storm of rare severity was forecast for the area where I live. Therefore, verse 16 stood out:
When He utters His voice--I found it striking that the NKJV uses the word "treasuries" to describe the source of the winds that God causes to blow on the Earth. The connotation provides an unusual perspective on thinking about wind of the stormy intensity.
There is a multitude of waters in the heavens.
He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth;
He makes lightnings for the rain;
He brings the wind out of His treasuries.
Today, two days after Thursday, I read Psalm 135. Verse 7 says:
He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth;I felt like I had read that recently: did I glance ahead when reading previous psalms, did someone refer to this passage in a blog article I read this week? No, I remembered that this was quoted in Jeremiah.
He makes lightnings for the rain;
He brings the wind out of His treasuries.
The storm never arrived where I live: it passed by to the north. A reminder of God's mercy and deliverance!
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