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Exodus 32.3-13
March 17th 2024
”Emotionalism”
So, we left off last week with Aaron making the golden calf to worship YAHAVAH in, through and along with.
To get a first-hand account, a more personal account of what actually happened perhaps, according to Moses, we can turn to Deuteronomy 9 beginning at verse 11 where Moses writes:
Deuteronomy 9:11 And at the end of forty days and forty nights the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, the tables of the covenant.
12 Then the LORD said to me, ‘Arise, go down quickly from here; for your people whom you have brought from Egypt have acted corruptly; they have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them; they have made themselves a molten image.’
13 “Furthermore the LORD said to me, ‘I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stubborn people;
14 Let me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.’
15 So, I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire; and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
16 And I looked, and behold, you had sinned against YAHAVAH your Elohiym; you had made yourselves a molten calf; you had turned aside quickly from the way which YAHAVAH had commanded you.
17 So I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.
18 Then I lay prostrate before YAHAVAH LORD as before, forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all the sin which you had committed, in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure which the LORD bore against you, so that he was ready to destroy you. But YAHAVAH hearkened to me that time also.
20 And YAHAVAH was so angry with Aaron that he was ready to destroy him; and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.
Remember, YAHAVAH had already chosen Aaron as high priest of Israel and we read about this in the first verses of chapter 28 where it said,
1 “Then bring near to you Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, from among the people of Israel, to serve me as priests–Aaron and Aaron’s sons, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
2 And you shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty.
3 And you shall speak to all who have ability, whom I have endowed with an able mind, that they make Aaron’s garments to consecrate him for my priesthood.
Of course, Aaron made an error in judgement and YAHAVAH was not pleased, yet Moses dissuaded Him from wiping the dude out.
But there is another factor to consider about Aaron. When Moses came down from the mount and saw what was going on, Exodus 32:26 says, “Moses stood in the gate of the camp and said, ‘Who is on the LORD’s side? Come to me.’ And all the sons of Levi gathered around him.”
As a son of Levi, Aaron was one of those who repented, and God forgave Him as He always does, and Aaron was used as described.
Did God punish Israel for coming to Aaron and getting him to fabricate the Golden calf and if so, how? We will learn about this later.
So, let’s go back to Exodus 32 at verse 7 where we read,
7 And YAHAVAH said unto Moses, “Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves:
8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
I am assuming that the line, “these be thy Gods,” (plural) is speaking of both the Golden calf – singular and YAHAVAH – which suggests two.
And of course, that brings us right into the ten-word covenant and what is central to true-worship of YAHAVAH then and on out to today. (verse 9)
9 And YAHAVAH said unto Moses, “I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff-necked people:
10 Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee (apparently, Moses) a great nation (all over again).
11 And Moses besought YAHAVAH his God, and said, “YAHAVAH, why doth thy wrath wax-hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?
12 Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, “For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.
13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and said to them, “I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.”
14 And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.
That line, as we have discussed in the past, is real and all it means is . . . He changed His mind.
God changes His mind?
We have heard all sorts of ideas about this – excuses, explanations – all of which fall short according to the logic behind them in my estimation.
Here’s what I mean – we say that God is all knowing, omnipresent, omnipotent, all these things. And He seems to be.
In fact, in my understanding and present view of YAHAVAH which I have sought to know in spirit and truth, He is
“one plural, perfect masculine and perfect feminine, and the original source of (let me quote from my personal journal) . . .
All Light, Love, Fire, Sound
Texture, Speed, Consistency, Frequency, Unity, Tempo, Motion, Movement, Stillness, Kinesiology, Vibration, Expansion, Contraction, Life, Existence and Love.
He IS – and in Him there is NO SUCH THINGS AS NON-EXISTENCE – Non-existence, is the opposite of Him.
For some reason, we have allowed ourselves to grow accustomed to describe Him as “Never EVER changing” or that He is Unchangeable but the very definition of movement includes changing.
I admit that His unchangeableness speak to His incomprehensible character and traits (some of which I just described) but I maintain one important distinction to all of this which is often overlooked by many of our more ardent Christian leaders today and that is
God is His willingness to change directions and approaches according to the hearts and will of His creations.
In other words, God, who is love, will reach out and receive all souls without exception and no matter how far they have wandered – IF – they want Him and turn.
In this way, God is always changing in His love. If you are mature in faith, His love is according to that maturity. If we are weakened, He will shift. If we are lost, He repurposes. If we are living in the Dark, He meets us where we are – all the time, without (LISTEN) exception.
This is the biblical description of Our God – and it stands counter to the description of Him being unloving, stanch, and unwilling to move from His position.
In the world of Him dealing with human beings to whom He has given free-will, God will forever redirect, change or repent of any act He was going to take against us (and our rebellion) the minute our minds and hearts turn to Him, every time anyone seeks to make Him their only God, anytime people are sorrowful from the heart.
But remember, He knows all things and in that vein, He knows, I suspect, when a created being, has turned from Him for Good. And this idea answers the old philosophical question, “could God forgive Satan?”
But when it comes to us, I maintain that He is doing this now on earth and I maintain that He will forever do this into eternity.
What are the words that describes why He does this or is this way? That’s right, it’s His . . .
Mercy. Compassion. Forgiveness. Agape love (which He is) expressed in its purest form. So back, let’s go back to Exodus 32:14 where we read,
14 And YAHAVAH repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.
Are there other cases in the scripture that talk about God repenting? There are! In . . .
2nd Samuel 24:16 we read, “And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, YAHAVAH repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.
I want you to note that the word evil there is used to describe the “painful” verses “pleasurable” results of what He was going to do RATHER than it being of evil or Dark, which God is not nor is capable of doing.
His motives are always driven in, by and through love – so the deleterious actions He takes or allows would be seen and described by that Nation (and us) as “evil” coming upon them, meanin “pain, misfortune,” but not the black-hearted acts by beings seeking to inflicting pain and woe from a place of pleasure.
Then in 1st Chronicles 21:15 we read
“And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, YAHAVAH beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. “
Psalm 106:45 says,
And he (YAHAVAH) remembered for them his covenant and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.
Out to Jeremiah 18:8 we can readily see what can cause YAHAVAH to repent, as He says:
Jerermiah 18:8 If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
That is the way Our God works! It is another iteration of the two-lane highway relationship He has with all of us which includes Him reaching down, and our reaching up to receive His will or not.
When we choose to do things His way, He is ready to meet us when we are inclined.
Jeremiah reiterates this point seven chapters later when he wrote:
Jeremiah 26:13 “Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of YAHAVAH your Elohiym; and YAHAVAH will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.”
I personally love the next passage in Joel 2:13 because it puts all religiosity in its place, as God says,
Joel 2:13 “And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto YAHAVAH your Elohiym: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.”
We have a kind of funny view some of us carry around with us in life. It’s a view that says, “We’ll, I forgive you of this or that person, but Good Luck with God.”
Its an attitude that suggests that we can be pretty merciful and compassionate but God – lookout – he’s a MONSTER and looks for ways to bring justice and pain.
Yeshua understood this mentality when He taught –
Matthew 7:9 What man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? 10 Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? 11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
Perhaps the best illustration of a comparative between human love and the human heart and the heart YAHAVAH has can be found in the Story of Jonah.
Remember He was sent to go to Ninevah to warn them of their sin and their need to repent. After the great fish incident, we read:
Jonah 3:4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.”
This is what he was told by YAHAVAH to say, right? Now listen –
5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, “Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything: let them not feed, nor drink water:
8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
9 Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
10 And God saw their works (their response), that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.
What a great God, right? He calls and seeks for people to change their minds about their ways, about Him about life and here at Ninevah, the people did! And God changed His mind (repented) from what He said He was going to do!
But here we encounter another errant human attitude opposite the one that says, “Well I can forgive but lookout for God.” This is the one that says, “I really want you to suffer and I hope God never forgives you.”
Listen to the first four verses of the next chapter:
Jonah 4:1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.
2 And he prayed unto YAHAVAH, and said, I pray thee, O YAHAVAH, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore, I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
3 Therefore now, O YAHAVAH, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
4 Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry?
For Jonah, there was no rejoicing in God’s mercy toward Ninevah. Only anger. He called them out in God’s name, and he appears to have wanted them to remain rebellious, to stay obstinate, and was angered when they changed their ways because He knew that God would then changed His.
Doesn’t this speak so well to the human heart and its ability to hate.
I once possessed this heart of hearts where I relished in people getting theirs, in their suffering, in their losing and getting humbled by life.
But he redirected this heart in me – and taught me to see people suffering as His love for them and to rejoice in what may happen within their souls through the discipline He might allow.
It’s a good thing for Man to humble themselves before their Maker, and I have learned to rejoice from the Heart when I see it happen – knowing that He will forgiven and turn from whatever destination they had in store of their future.
Sometimes we tend to think that YAHAVAH is so good He won’t even discipline the bad? Because of time I would just say, He will do what He will do and I will trust in Him in this.
So, let’s wrap up chapter 32 by reading this account about what happens next.
15 And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written.
16 And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
(Talk about a collectors item!!! The writing of God on tables of God! What an item, right? Funny how they are not around to worship, eh.)
17 And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp.
18 And he (Moses) said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome: but the noise of them that sing do I hear.
And upon these words I want to talk about something that is often overlooked in the faith. It is a Principle of supreme import from where I stand in my desire to help people mature in faith and love.
Whether you believe this one or not is up to you because admittedly my construction of such is based on a wide view of the biblical text but is admittedly derivative and therefore subject to really being wrong.
If I am wrong may the Spirit remove the teaching from your minds. So let’s start with my view of seeing the Living God as One Plural of perfect masculinity and perfect femininity.
Something that is quite timely in our day and age of “gender identity and fluidity.”
I suggest that all people are expressions of both masculine and feminine traits and we might see everyone as being high masculine or low masculine, since Adam was first and Eve came from him.
In the absence of masculinity is the presence of femininity. Some secular scholars and researchers admit that there are standard expressions that can be generally assigned to the genders in this way
High Masculine
Low Masculine (Feminine)
social norms
ego oriented
relationship oriented
money and things are important
quality of life and people are important
live in order to work
work in order to live
politics and economics
economic growth high priority
environment protection high priority
conflict solved through force
conflict solved through negotiation
Religion
most important in life
less important in life
only men can be priests
both men and women as priests
family and school
traditional family structure
flexible family structure
girls cry, boys don’t; boys fight, girls don’t
both boys and girls cry; neither fight
failing is a disaster
failing a minor accident
Mind
Reason/Logic
Emotions
Law
Grace
Logic
Compassion
When we consider the expressions of God given in scripture, it does not take long to realize that the Old Testament and Apostolic Record expressions of YAHAVAH run the gamut of masculine and feminine traits perfectly, but that there is a demonstrable masculinity in the Old Testament God, isn’t there?
Lots of anger, wrath, justice and right and wrong. But there is some feminine traits as well – changing, loving, longsuffering.
It is interesting to me – fascinating in fact, that Our Lord, in becoming flesh, exhibited far more feminine traits to the world, including traits of compassion, forgiveness, empathy which were a direct resistance to those who strictly operated by Law in that day.
Yes, He overturned tables. Yes, He evidence masculine anger, but (and this is my point here) I might be so bold as to suggest that He portrayed “the reasonable, balanced approach to human emotionalism with is far more feminine than masculine.
He was not led by His emotions. He had them – but He did NOT act because it felt something. He acted because it was right and the will of His Father.
These factors are SIGNIFICANT in the way Yeshua lived His Mortal life. Note that He became flesh and taught all HOW to relate and respond to our masculine and our feminine drivers.
In my estimation and central to most religious fails are when they choose then attempt to motivate, teach or influence others by emotional appeals OR when they led by strictly logical demands.
But today I just want to talk about following God and emotionalism. Take note that most of the world and its attractions appeal to us through emotional drivers.
We use imagery, narratives, music, to create in viewers things that cause them to “feel.”
One of my favorite bads in the worlds lead singer will stand over seas of people and shout,
“Can you feel it!”
As if feelings are the goal and the barometer of truth.
Adolph Hitler used feelings obtained by pomp, music, ambiance and rhetoric to reach into the hearts of His audiences.
He said, in Mein Kamp –
“Particularly the broad masses of the people can be moved by the power of speech. And all the great movements are popular movements, volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotional sentiments, stirred either by the cruel Goddess of Distress or by the firebrand of the word hurled among the masses; they are not like the lemonade-like outpourings of literary aesthetics and drawing room heroes.”
Because Mein Kampf leaned more toward a “literary aesthetic,” the Nazi Party worked tirelessly to create new forms of emotionally-driven propaganda to get people to realign themselves with Nazism idealism.
These were done through film, (like, The Triumph of the Will,) through Fervent Oration (of which Hitler was a genius), in photography, and elaborate celebrations using extremely powerful material imagery through light, sound, order, and parades of power through the most inspiring architecture created by Albert Spears.
These emotionally driven factors were combined to overwhelm the dead, cold ideaologies from the Furors mind and draw the German people into a tremendous feelings unity, even love, for God, Nation and toward Hitler Himself.
This is a straight up appeal to what drew Eve to eat of the fruit, summarized by all that is in this world –
The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life, which are emotional drivers defying logic.
I call all of it – from a McDonald’s commercial, to love songs saying its “okay to enjoy tonight because who needs tomorrow,” to couples going deeper into immense debt through a romantic get away in order to escape the fact that their marriage is in trouble, emotionalism, or appealing to the rewards of emotionalism, has forever moved people closer to their own human wants and wishes and further away from God!
This is the point – we can only barely know God by and through our emotions. We rarely know truth by or through our emotions. Emotions almost always have a foundation in “self, self-desires, feelings, and not God and His desires.”
Again, emotionalism is what governs the human mind and will and for this reason, God became one of us to show or illustrate how to live and choose and walk in the face of them existing.
What takes us to a place where our “emotions and emotional responses to God” are right is when they are prompted to act by His Spirit – which IS NOT EMOTIONALLY RECEIVED OR CREATED.
In other words, when a person comes to see Him for who He is, whom the scripture says He is, and to then see themselves for what they really are by comparison, emotions are a valid human response as they evidence and are supported by “rightly aligned humility, and feelings from the broken heart and contrite spirit within.”
But to think we are knowing truth because something feels good or right or pleasing to our senses is a fail, and the Lord showed through His deontological devotion to the will of His Father how to be, where to place our trust and faith and how to make sound choices in the face of feelings that often want us to make selfish ones.
This is what I think made Yeshua weep.
Coming down from Sinai, Joshua thought that he heard “the noise of war,” which is certainly an emotional event. Soldiers need to be emotionally driven to engage in what they are going to engage in because logic stands right in the way of such things.
But Moses says in response, “No, this sounds like singing,” which is another emotional response to whatever was going on around them.
Either way, what they were hearing from the Nation was emotionalism run amok among a people who were literally watching the Living God communicate with His earthly representative above them by given him His Law.
In fear, another emotion, they had Aaron make an idol. In fear, he made it. And they allowed their emotions to cause them to “rise up and play, to sing and dance,” celebrating in their ways and not the Lord’s.
Listen carefully to the all familiar words of King David who wrote in Psalm 23
YAHAVAH is my shepherd; I shall not want.
2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of YAHAVAH for ever.
Right emotions are described in scripture in places like
Colossians 3:12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
14 And above all these things put on agape, which is the bond of perfectness.
Agape is selfless, insufferable, sacrificial, and therefore stands antithetically to our feelings, our will and our passions which cry out, “SELF! Self preservation! Self-Indulgence. Self-this, self that.”
Those are the feelings this world produces that are lost in the shining light of His desired will, ways and His wonderful wants for His creations.
Looking to the Beatitudes, look at the first three emotions Yeshua promotes in this simple but amazing teaching, as He says,
Blessed are the poor in spirit. (emotion)
Blessed are those that mourn. (emotion)
Blessed are the meek. (emotion)
From what I can tell our emotions ought to be what follows our devotions and not the other way around and are a product or a result of our allegiances to Him and not what produces devotion or allegiance.
And here comes the hard part, if you will have it – so please have it in the context that God Himself in my estimation, is best understood as perfect masculinity and perfect femininity, and so I speak this in light of this framework:
It was an emotional decision to eat of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, one that said, “this is good. This is beneficial. Let’s eat it.” And it came from Eve.
And Eve, having the power over the males logic, got Adam to follow along.
It was emotional logic that was used when Sarah told Abraham to take Hagar and Abraham, failing to use his understanding of God, and apparently wanting to please her, followed suit.
Right here at Sinai it was emotion that led the nation into idolatry instead of listening to YAHAVAH and doing what He said and what they emotionally agree to prior.
Oddly, paradoxically, when Jeremiah says,
Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
It speaks to the emotional make-up of human beings with “heart” possibly representing the faculties of human emotions in this world.
What is mind-blowing, however, is that it was in and through the incarnation of what seems to be the far more feminine aspect of God in His Son, that victory was had, and it is by and through these golden attributes of right emotions that the faith thrives – not by masculine laws, rules, orders and authority but by love.
The paradox lies in the biblical fact that all people are commanded to walk by faith and to trust in God’s masculine commands but that it is His feminine responses to living, appealed to in the right way, that make all things work and this world spin.
Without them, we would only have death.
Paul nails the whole point when he says,
In Galatians 5:22-25;
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.
We note that the fruit of the Spirit is not found in the feelings of the flesh itself – the fruit of the Spirit is not “self, happiness, loud, motivating, power heighted by our fleshly need for feelings.
It exists in the personal choice to submit such things to Him, and to trust in His will and ways. Which are the perfect amalgamation of His masculine and feminine traits and why we read all the way back in Genesis,
“So, God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”
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Other passages to consider . . .
Philippians 4:6-7
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 5:16-24
But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, …
Romans 12:2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Ecclesiastes 3:4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
2 Timothy For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Romans 8:28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
Ephesians 4:26-27 Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and give no opportunity to the devil.
Proverbs 15:13 A glad heart makes a cheerful face, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is crushed.
Proverbs 25:28 A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls.
Romans 12:9 Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.
2 Corinthians 10:5
We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,
Colossians 2:8
See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.
1 John 4:16
So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
Ephesians 4:26
Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,
Proverbs 16:32
Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.
Psalm 119:105
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
1 Peter 5:7
Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
