Death in Us- Life in You

It was Christ's intention that we continually return to his death- "As oft as ye meet".  To remember Him- "Do this in remembrance of me."  More specifically to remember His broken body and the new covenant in His blood.  I believe it was His intent that we not forget that in his economy we only find life and reproduce life by submitting to the dying process.  Only in brokenness to we find wholeness that is God's.  This is reflected clearly in the teaching of Paul.  Look at II Cor. 4:10  "

Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh So then death worketh in us, but life in you." So we are living paradoxes of a dual process as long as we are in the flesh.  There is a dying process and a new life process.  An arrangement that through brokenness and dying we exchange our old nature for His life.

The Heavens Declare the Glory of God

It occurred to me that the word "declare" in Ps 19 must be quite a word because those "heavens" are quite a sight.  The word is an accounting word that means numerate.  The Psalmist is focusing on the sheer number of the stars.  In contrast he uses a word for hand needle point for "the earth showeth His handiwork".  Here we have a God who displays His vastness on the one hand and on the other orders the tiniest details of the here and now.