Psalm 15 - I picture of the righteous. Having just read Jesus' words about what comes from a human heart (namely, wickedness) I can't help feeling this psalm is too optimistic. Yet, for all the wickedness and judgment found in the psalms, it is hopeful to see a picture of what following after God might look like. We see this most clearly in Jesus who is the new Adam, and it is therefore a picture of hope.
1 Kings 18:20-40 - "but there was no voice. No one answered; no one paid attention." As powerful as this story is it is sad that it had to come to this. God's people wandered off after other gods and as people are waiting on Baal there is only silence. I say this is sad because to this day we chase after other gods and of course there is ultimately silence and emptiness in these things. It's sad that such silence has to happen for us to turn and see who God really is.
Ephesians 2:1-22 - 8For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
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