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Psalm 73

21 When my heart was grieved
and my spirit embittered,
22 I was senseless and ignorant;
I was a brute beast before you.

23 Yet I am always with you;
you hold me by my right hand.
24 You guide me with your counsel,
and afterward you will take me into glory.
25 Whom have I in heaven but you?
And earth has nothing I desire besides you.
26 My flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is the strength of my heart
and my portion forever.

27 Those who are far from you will perish;
you destroy all who are unfaithful to you.
28 But as for me, it is good to be near God.
I have made the Sovereign Lord my refuge;
I will tell of all your deeds


Whom have I in heaven but You? This, to me, is Jesus speaking to the Father.

And earth has nothing that I desire besides You. Ditto.

Those who are far from You will perish. This is Jesus speaking, as wisdom personified. He is crying out in the streets. On earth, Jesus was and is not far from the Father. Even on earth, in the flesh of sin, He was untouched by sin, and spotless. He was always near the Father.

To me, there is only one thing to see and that is Jesus with the Father. What of the Holy Spirit, you ask? Well I say that you can't see Jesus with the Father except by the Holy Spirit. If you don't get inspired, you'll be like the Ethiopian eunuch, saying "Who is this one speaking here?" Or you'll be like WL and say, "Pay no attention to that man there. That's just a sinner like you or me". But if the Holy Spirit gives you revelation you'll see the Son with the Father. This is then the anointing, coming and abiding upon you. Jesus said, "When the Spirit comes, you will know. You will know." (Acts 1:8, cf Luke 1:35)

What about the Bride, you ask? What about the Body of Christ? I reply that the Bride only has eyes for the Son with the Father. She hears no other voice, and sees no other vision. She is lost amid the rapture of redeeming love, as the song goes.

And so forth. Anyway, just food for thought. Maybe tomorrow I'll change my mind and say something else. But that's what I think today. (as Forrest Gump would put it)