Rom9,1 I speak the truth in Christ- I am not lying, my conscience confirms it in the Holy Spirit-
2 I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. > This is a heart.
Since yesterdays phone conversation i feel more lame and tired in my hard as before. I would need some one who would reflect with me the year 2012 ... 
God give me energy to be able to serve now!
Paul: unceasing anguish :2 dass ich große Traurigkeit habe und unaufhörlichen Schmerz in meinem Herzen;/dass ich große Traurigkeit und Schmerzen ohne Unterlass in meinem Herzen habe;[unaufhörliche Qual] He really has a amazing heart!
3 For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, those of my own race, > ! <
4 the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory, the covenants, the receiving of the law, the temple worship and the promises.
5 Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human ancestry of Christ, who is God over all, for ever praised! Amen.  > Jesus is God <
6 It is not as though God's word had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.
7 Nor because they are his descendants are they all Abraham's children. On the contrary, It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.
8 In other words, it is not the natural children who are God's children, but it is the children of the promise/sondern nur die Kinder der Verheißung who are regarded as Abraham's offspring.
9 For this was how the promise was stated: At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son.
10 Not only that, but Rebekah's children had one and the same father, our father Isaac.
11 Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad- in order that God's purpose in election might stand:/11 Denn als die Kinder noch nicht geboren waren und weder Gutes noch Böses getan hatten - damit der nach freier Auswahl5 gefasste Vorsatz Gottes bestehen bliebe, 
12 not by works but by him who calls- she was told, The older will serve the younger. > Some things are just like this. I saw a documentary of Roger Federer. He has so much(He works of corse very hard) but all his hard work would be for nothing if in him would be little talent. - Not sure if it is fair to say...
13 Just as it is written: Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.  > so?
14 What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all! > Paul realizes that this comment is not to easy!
15 For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion. > 2Mo 33,12 Moses said to the LORD, You have been telling me, 'Lead these people,' but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. You have said, 'I know you by name and you have found favour with me.'
13 If you are pleased with me, teach me your ways so I may know you and continue to find favour with you. > Moses just wants to please GOD! Remember that this nation is your people. > This are your people GOD! 14 The LORD replied, My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest. > !!! < 15 Then Moses said to him, If your Presence does not go with us, do not send us up from here. > Moses is not just happy with what God tels him. Moses sais: Your presence GOD is a given! Of corse you have to be present for us! 
16 How will anyone know that you are pleased with me and with your people unless you go with us? > What a great question! What else will distinguish me and your people from all the other people on the face of the earth? > Yes - if you God are not eminent here - nothing makes any different!
17 And the LORD said to Moses, I will do the very thing you have asked, because I am pleased with you and I know you by name. > Do i have the same Moses heart?
18 Then Moses said, Now show me your glory. > Moses want more GOD and more GOD and more GOD - He can not have enough of GOD! And the LORD said, I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim my name, the LORD, in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
 > When i see the heart of Moses, i am not surprised why God chose him? Moses loves God so much! Moses wants to please God so intensely ! It is challenging for me to read!
16 It does not, therefore, depend on man's desire or effort, but on God's mercy.
17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.
18 Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.
19 One of you will say to me: Then why does God still blame us? For who resists his will?
20 But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, 'Why did you make me like this?'
21 Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for common use?
22 What if God, choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath- prepared for destruction?
23 What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory-
24 even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?
25 As he says in Hosea:I will call them 'my people' who are not my people; and I will call her 'my loved one' who is not my loved one,
26 and,It will happen that in the very place where it was said to them,'You are not my people,' they will be called 'sons of the living God'.
27 Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea, only the remnant will be saved.
28 For the Lord will carry out his sentence on earth with speed and finality.
29 It is just as Isaiah said previously:Unless the Lord Almighty had left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, we would have been like Gomorrah.