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November 22 - Psalm 141 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello there. To which of course, the correct
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  responses. General Kenobi, you are a bold
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  one, but maybe that's a little bit too much.
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  Star Wars and a Friday. Hello friends, it is indeed
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  Friday. It is the 22nd of November.
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  Great to have your company. Whether you are an Obi Wan fan
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  or not, that makes no difference.
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  Well, it does in many parts of life, but not right now.
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  Because at this point in time, it is not how many MIDI
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  Chlorians you have in your system that matters.
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  It is the fact that you have set aside a moment to sit down, to
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  stand up, to run, to sleep, to whatever it is that you're
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  doing, to drive and spend a moment in God's Word.
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  And as we do every Friday for the last 140 Fridays, yes,
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  that's a lot of Fridays. We read a Psalm together, and
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  this is a Psalm of David. This is a Psalm where David
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  calls out asking God to come and to help him, and then
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  brilliantly follows it up by asking God to transform him so
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  that he can always be in the right frame as he approaches
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  God, which is a pretty wonderful model for us.
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  Hard David, so clever, so full of wisdom for us.
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  So let us share this Psalm, a Psalm of David as we read
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  together Psalm 141. Oh Lord, I'm calling to you,
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  please hurry. Listen when I cry to you for
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  help. Accept my prayer as incense
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  offered to you and my up raised hands as an evening offering.
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  Take control of what I say, O Lord, and guard my lips.
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  Don't let me drift toward evil or take part in acts of
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  wickedness. Don't let me share in the
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  delicacies of those who do wrong.
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  Let the godly strike me. It will be a kindness if they
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  correct me. It is a soothing medicine.
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  Don't let me refuse it. But I pray constantly against
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  the wicked and their deeds. When their leaders are thrown
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  down from a Cliff, the wicked will listen to my words and find
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  them true. Like rocks brought up by a
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  plough, the bones of the wicked will lie scattered without
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  burial. I look to you for help.
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  O sovereign Lord, you are my refuge.
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  Don't let them kill me. Keep me from the traps they have
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  set for me, from the snares of those who do wrong.
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  Let the wicked fall into their own Nets, but let me escape
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  our Father. You are indeed our refuge.
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  You are the one who will save us.
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  In fact, not just will save us, but you have saved us.
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  You have given us Jesus. You have made us right with you,
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  and the great cosmic challenge of the universe and our place in
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  it has been set. We know who we are now.
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  We are your children, loved and included in your fatherly
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  embrace. Oh, what a gift that you would
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  lavish that upon us. Thank you.
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  Thank you for being our rock and our Redeemer.
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  And as we find ourselves in difficult spaces in this life,
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  our Lord continue to shape us that our first instinct as David
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  would be to turn to you and to claim our identity as a loved,
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  blessed child of yours, knowing that you hold our Wellness, you
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  hold our eternity in the palm of your hand with great love and
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  care. You are incredible and we love
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  you and we worship you. And we pray all of this in the
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  name of Jesus through whom all things are possible.
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  Amen.