Originally Posted by
Tutor
for CFT,
these three psalms express the lion-delusion and the wolf-phobia, which assail one in their final humbling, toward intercessory prayer preparatory before entrance to right meditation, and healing others through one's self regardless of one's personal health/well-being, these two as the selfless which prayer within and healing through them given self for others is the prayer and healing for them self even as they've not in prayer of healing sought it. those two skillsets/understandings as the double edged sword that slays delusion and phobia, or lion and wolf.
Psalm 151 - A Thanksgiving of David
1I was the youngest among my brethren, and a youth in my father's house. I used to feed my father's flock, and I found a lion and a wolf, and slew them and rent them. 2My hands made an organ, and my fingers fashioned a harp.3 Who will show me my Lord? He, my Lord, is become my God. 4He sent His angel and took me away from my father's flock, and anointed me with the oil of anointing. 5My brethren, the fair and the tall, in them the Lord had no pleasure. 6And I went forth to meet the Philistine, and he cursed me by his idols. 7But I drew his sword and cut off his head, and took away the reproach from the children of Israel.
Psalm 154 - Spoken by David when he was contending with the lion and the wolf
which took a sheep from his flock
1O God, O God, come to my aid; help Thou me and save me; deliver Thou my soul from the slayer. 2Shall I go down to Sheol by the mouth of the lion? or shall the wolf confound me? 3Was it not enough for them that they lay in wait for my father's flock, and rent in pieces a sheep of my father's drove, but they were wishing also to destroy my soul? 4Have pity, O Lord, and save Thy holy one from destruction; that he may rehearse Thy glories in all his times, and may praise Thy great name: 5when Thou hast delivered him from the hands of the destroying lion and of the ravening wolf, and when Thou hast rescued my captivity from the hands of the wild beasts. 6Quickly, O my Lord (Adonai), send from before Thee a deliverer, and draw me out of the gaping pit, which imprisons me in its depths.
Psalm 155 - Spoken by David when returning thanks to God,
who had delivered him from the lion and the wolf and he had slain both of them
1Praise the Lord, all ye nations; glorify Him, and bless His name: 2Who rescued the soul of His elect from the hands of death, and delivered His holy one from destruction: 3and saved me from the nets of Sheol, and my soul from the pit that cannot be fathomed. 4Because, ere my deliverance could go forth from before Him, I was well nigh rent in two pieces by two wild beasts. 5But He sent His angel, and shut up from me the gaping mouths, and rescued my life from destruction. 6My soul shall glorify Him and exalt Him, because of all His kindnesses which He hath done and will do unto me.
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but ya gotta translate these into your own rightful being as a child of god.
furthermore an excerpt from, Basilides of Alexandria..."Human Suffering" or "Karma and Reincarnation"; Basilides [writings] considered as a Buddhist Gnosis as well as the Christian counterpart.
"I say that all those who fall into these so-called tribulations, are people who, only after transgressing in other matters without being discovered, are brought to this good end by the kindness of Providence, so that, the offences they are charged with being quite different from those they have committed without discovery, they do not suffer as criminals for proved offences, reviled as adulterers or murderers, but suffer merely for being Christians; which fact is so consoling to them that they do not even appear to suffer. And even though it should happen that one comes to suffer without previously committing any outward transgression--a very rare case--he will not suffer at all through any plot of any [evil] power, but in exactly the same way as the babe who apparently has done no ill."
so...i hope ya see the intended message and are consoled to continue be consoling to yourself.
tim
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