a shard, a single thought

an essential, essential question, what does God write, speak to us, to be…

so- a first translation…

13 ‘Perfect thou art with Jehovah thy God, ‘ (Young’s literal Translation) 

and from the New Living Translation –

13 ‘But you must be blameless before the Lord your God.’

and finally, the New International Version –

13 ‘You must be blameless before the Lord your God.’

A shard… 

• Our contemporary translations (NLT; NIV ) tells us what we should be before the Lord God: blameless. Blameless as we stand, blameless, without shame, before a Holy God. And the implication is that we have to do so on our own before we come before Him; by our own strength; by own power and might; by our own wills.

And yet …

Young’s translation is more literal, and, I believe, truer to the Hebrew text ( it is – after all – a literal translation ) states directly that ‘ we are perfect ‘ with Jehovah.

God stands with us and by this, His stand, we are perfect.

Perfect.

As we move, work, walk and even rest this day, know He is  with us – 

…with us.

In all ways. We just have to see …close our eyes and see. 

and see him

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