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September 13 - Psalm 131 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean. Here it is.
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  Friday it is the war. It's the 13th of September.
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  Friday the 13th. Watch out for those Black Cats
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  and ladders leaning against buildings, over footpaths and
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  all those sorts of things, if you're into that.
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  But the good news is superstition does not need to
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  have any kind of hold of our lives.
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  So we can say today might be Friday the 13th, but what a
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  cracking day it is going to be. In fact, today we continue,
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  backpacks on our backs, heading up that hill.
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  This is a song for pilgrims ascending to Jerusalem, a Psalm
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  of David. And as we well, I guess today we
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  can celebrate the fact that we don't have to be ruled by
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  superstition today. This Psalm is a short one.
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  It's only three verses long. And it is a beautiful Psalm that
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  says that we get to live in humble subservience to a
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  glorious God. Yes.
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  We are not the masters of our own destiny.
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  We are not subject to the evil ways of this world and the
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  superstitions that would control us.
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  No, we get to come before the mighty God of love and live
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  according to his plans for us, with humility and with
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  quietness. And that is what this Psalm is
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  all about. So let us put down the busyness
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  of our minds. Let's breathe deeply and find
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  that silence in our hearts so that we can hear these words of
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  our God as spoken to us in Psalm 131.
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  Lord, my heart is not proud. My eyes are not haughty.
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  I don't concern myself with matters too great or too awesome
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  for me to grasp. Instead, I have calmed and
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  quieted myself like a weaned child who no longer cries for
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  its mother's milk. Yes, like a weaned child is my
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  soul within me. O Israel, put your hope in the
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  Lord now and always. Father, as our hearts become
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  troubled with the big things of this world, settle our hearts.
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  Remind us that our hearts don't live in this world or in a
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  vacuum, but our hearts live before You, our loving, gracious
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  God, in whose company we realise that you have won the battle,
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  that You have provided everything that we will need,
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  and that we can sit before You in absolute peace and certainty
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  of Your goodness and Your provision for us.
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  So we, along with Israel, put our hope in you, Lord Jesus, now
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  and always. Amen.