The White Stone Zone

Psalm 77 is a great example of repentance. Psychologist call it "Cognitive Therapy". It is one idea modern psychology gets right.   Repentance means to change one’s thinking, and in this Psalm, Asaph begins relating to God according to how he feels.   He states that his soul refused to be comforted.   Did you ever feel that way?   Notice that he did not say that God refused to comfort him.   It was he that refused God’s comfort.    Asaph felt comfortable with his misery and the idea of trusting God at his word seemed uncomfortable.   However, Asaph made his way by the grace of God to the truth.   He changed His thinking by looking at God’s character, God’s faithfulness and God’s work of our behalf.   He remembered all of God’s mighty works; in other words, he turned away from his feelings, changed his thinking, and set his thoughts on God.   Believers in the Lord Jesus Christ always have a sure foundation to turn to in tim...

7 After the Lord had said these things to Job , he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has. " (Job 42)      God told Job's friends that He was angry with them because they misrepresented the Almighty.  In a nut shell, Job's friends told him that all of the suffering he was going through was because God was punishing Him for His sins.  They were playing the blame game.  Unfortunately, this goes on today in the Body of Christ--a place where it certainly does not belong.  If you are a believer in Jesus Christ, God will not ever punish you for your sins. God is just, and it would be unjust for Him to punish a believer in Jesus Christ. Why? Because God has punished all of our sins at the cross. There is His justice. Not only were our sins punished, but they were taken away--the root of forgiveness means to send away; we are separated from ...