Diamond-Hard

Proverbs 30:24-28
These verses talk about things that are small, but still wise.  The ant provides food in the summer for all winter.  The badgers make their homes in cliff.  The locusts fly in formation.  The lizard makes his way into the king's palace.  Moral?  Maybe that wisdom does not have to come with the fanciest package.

Psalm 143
This is a plea for the Lord to deliver the writer from his enemies.  He says, "Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust.  Make me know the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul."  I love these beautiful words.

Revelation 15
Today John sees seven angels, each with a plague.  He says that these are the last plagues, because with them the wrath of God is finished.  The angels were in the sanctuary and no one was allowed in until the plagues were over.

Zechariah 6-7
Yesterday while I was reading Zechariah I had to check and make sure I wasn't reading Revelation... he has so many visions!  They were about a flying scroll and a woman in a basket and today about four chariots being drawn by horses of four different colors.  The angel told Zech that they represented the four winds of heaven.  Then the word of the Lord comes and tells him to get some certain people together because they are going to build the temple and there will be peace that reigns.  They are told that if they diligently obey the Lord, it will come to be.  Next, Zechariah become the messenger to the people and tells them to show kindness and mercy and be without evil.  But the people harden their hearts and did not listen.  It says the "made their hearts diamond-hard."  So the Lord was angry and the land was left desolate.