Bev Psalm 68: Opposition in All Things

Lehi now in the promised land blesses his people

   saying: be men, and be determined in one mind

   and in one heart, united in all things.

Awake and put on the armor of righteousness.

Then he gives each of his sons a patriarchal blessing.

He testifies that the Holy Messiah offers Himself as

   a sacrifice for sin. Why?

Because no flesh can dwell in the presence of God the

   Father except upon the Savior’s merit and mercy.

As God’s only begotten son, He came to earth to make

   intercession for us, the Holy One through His

   resurrection paid the punishment. For each of us.

Only He, half mortal as Mary’s child and a god from

   His Heavenly Father can be our Advocate when

   He stands with us before the Judgement seat.

Lehi concludes: There must be opposition in all things

We must choose between light and dark, good and

   evil, holiness or wickedness.

Let us put on that whole armor of God and

   be found standing in holy places at the last day.

Bev Psalm 67: What the Devil

Isaiah foretells of the Lord’s second coming

How is this relevant for us today?

It is clearly portrayed as a day when

   Christ’s arm will be made bare to all

   the nations of the earth.

Having brought His covenants out of

   darkness and obscurity

The gospel burst forth and His scattered

   sheep are brought into one fold.

They are numbered to Him.

His sheep hear His voice and know Him.

The righteous need not fear when the

   fulness of the wrath of God falls upon

   His enemies with fire.

The very fire that burns the wicked is the

   Glory of the Lord.

His fire protects the righteous at that day.

Liken it to Shadrack, Meshac and Abednigo

   in their furnace of fire where another visage

   was seen to be accompanying them.

The Lord was with them because of their righteousness.

Those who are found living by the commandments,

   covenants and will of the Lord, shall not be

   consumed at His coming.

There is a funny picture portraying me as

   our high school mascot, the Red Devil.

As I focus now on Christ, the picture blends

   symbolically my choices.

I choose to be a disciple of our Savior, the

   Redeemer of the World, the Messiah.

Bev Psalm 66: Highly Favored

My eyes are opened and my

   understanding increased.

This is because of my diligent, consistent

   seeking;

The Lord has seen my righteousness.

His voice I’ve heard.

He commanded, write psalms and ten

   months later I’m doing it daily.

The Spirit invites, entices and leads me

   To pray more and testify more.

There is comfort knowing that the power

   of covenants does not take a day off.

The promises of Isaiah are being fulfilled

   today; I see it!

I am highly favored of the Lord.

All righteous covenant keeping men and

   women are highly favored.

The Lord knows the beginning and the end.

He proclaims hope in my end and in yours, too.

May we bring the light of the gospel to a

   scattered Israel and others, highly favored.

Likening scriptures to myself will help

   others to see and hear His voice.

Modern words for ancient patterns and promises.

The Lord is doing a marvelous work.

He has lifted up His hand upon the Saints and

   set them up for the world to see:

A beacon upon the hill, in a mighty nation

   where freedom of religion reigns, and is maintained

   by the votes of many righteous men and women.

We have been nourished by the good word of God

   preserved for over 4,000 years.

Our daughters have been carried upon those

   shoulders of a priesthood restored.

 

Bev Psalm 65: Remember Former Things

 

Do I write the more sacred things here

   or as on Nephi’s other plates, only my journeyings

   in the wilderness?

My weakness in writing and what I choose

   to make into a psalm daily are probably just

   for my personal growth and benefit.

I do not prophesy.

I only make record of daily studies and reading

   In the Book of Mormon.

Lehi and Sariah have grown old, as I have.

Nephi ponders ancient record that prophesy of the

   God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob who will

   come 600 years after his family left Jerusalem

   to come to this promised land, an isle of the sea.

The Americas are Isles of the sea, formed after

   the continents divided.

At Christ’s crucifixion, earthquakes rend and

   fracture the rocks of the whole earth.

God will remember the isles and all the people

   of Israel scattered there.

All the earth shall see the salvation of the Lord.

I liken all scriptures unto my own life and

   write here so you might do the same.

Isaiah quotes the Lord as saying he declared

   former things from the beginning for us today, “Mine

   idol hath done them, and my graven image and my

   molten image hath commanded them.”

AI, computers, cell phones with their soldered

   connections, molded casings, and predictive imagery

   certainly match these descriptions, and

Isaiah saw it!

Bev Psalm 64: Gathering

 

In the storms of our life have we gathered

   sufficient meat to sustain us?

The meat of the gospel, not milk.

Do we feast on the deeper meaning of words

   spoken by prophets ancient and living?

Jeremiah foretold the gathering in our day.

The seeds planted in far-flung parts of the world

   have sprung forth and missionaries are sent.

They are fishers of men.

Anciently Jesus called fishermen to be His apostles.

Today apostles lead, guide, and invite us to go up

   unto the mountain of the Lord, His house, the temple.

Do we remember who we came from

Honoring our forefathers, then providing them with

   opportunities to learn of Jesus Christ, their Savior

   performing work for them that they cannot do

   for themselves?

After the fishers have found us, let us hunt ancestors

   from every mountain, hill and hole in the rock.

These holes in the rocks once were tombs

   cut in stone, now are stones over gravesites.

FindaGrave and Billion Graves help us to be

   hunters of our deceased families.

Their calling was to multiply and replenish the earth

   giving God’s spirit children bodies, to be tried,

   and tested to see if they would do whatever

   God commanded.

The desire of my heart is to find every baby

   that died young during years where the storms

   of life included rudimentary medical care,

   plagues, illnesses, accidents, even murder.

Widespread wars, the deceit of conspiring men

   felled many family trees, leaving no boughs

   or branches, only roots.

The computer now helps us hunt, threshing

   mountains of data, to find the one.

We gather scattered Israel, one family at a time.

Onto the ship of the gospel to be safely

   gathered in to weather life’s hurricanes.

Bev Psalm 63: Emojis and Glyphs

We use glyphs every day to show an idea, thought or word in emojis:

   thumbs up, praying hands, smiley face or hearts.

Similarly, a glyph may be an inscribed pictograph, like what I saw engraved on

   rock faces at Saguaro National Park West in Picture Rocks, Arizona.

Nephi’s name, shown on Stela 5 at Izapa, Chiapas, Mexico is a seated scribe.

I relate to that image as I sit in my revelatory recliner.

The word Nephi means grain or maize after what he brought by a ship

   he built and sailed to the new world.

Legends are stories of old that become imbedded in a society.

Lehi’s glyph means jawbone. He opens his mouth to speak

   the inspired words of prophet.

What is your glyph?

Mine is a bee; like Deborah of old, whose name means bee,

   she sat under a palm tree.

My palm trees grow in the courtyard and I view them through

   glass patio sliding doors.

My tent is an apartment on the ground floor of a huge complex.

Now, I sit, I write and create.

I am a keeper of records, more  digitally, no longer on paper.

What do my psalms bring to the world; what “small means” of these

   can the Lord use to bring about great things?

Understanding the past brings the present into focus and makes

   the future a little clearer. Is that prophecy?

Oh Lord hear the words of my mouth.

My tent and palm trees in the desert

Bev Psalm 62: Into the Wilderness

 

Bev Psalms are the story of God’s hand in my life

   leading, guiding and directing me.

When our daughter was four, we moved to

   Kwajalein because of my husband’s new job.

2,000 miles West across the country.

2200 miles further across the Pacific Ocean.

To live on an island 2 ½ miles long and a

   ½ mile wide.

A speck of land in a very large ocean.

We traveled from today over the dateline into tomorrow.

Separated from family and friends,

   I turned to the Lord.

A miracle occurred here in my wilderness

   during the four years we lived in this isolated spot.

Hours were spent reading and studying

   the scriptures every morning.

I began an in-depth study of my patriarchal blessing.

My compass pointed toward Jesus Christ,

   The North Star, the Bright Morning Star.

Whether a Liahona, a compass or the Holy Ghost

   leads you along your personal covenantal path,

What hidden treasures will you discover?