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July 26 - Psalm 124 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Shaun here. It's Friday, it's the 26th of
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  July and we have made it to the end of another week.
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  This has been my first week back at work.
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  So for they are hard weeks aren't they?
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  And I know a bunch of students have gone back to school this
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  week. Some of you have been back for a
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  while, I know, but whatever your week has been like, you have
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  made it through. Well done.
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  We are now in Friday and what a week.
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  We have shared in the scriptures, being up in that
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  room with Jesus, John's reflection of all of those
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  important things that he wanted to share with his disciples,
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  with us. But now we find ourselves here,
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  here on Friday in the land of Psalms where we are going to
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  share a Psalm. And yes, we are still pilgrims.
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  We are still ascending that hill to Jerusalem together.
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  And that is what we shall do today and for a number of
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  Fridays after this. This is a song for pilgrims
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  ascending to Jerusalem, a Psalm of David.
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  And these are short little chipper psalms that praise God
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  and spare us on as we head toward His promised city that
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  stands ahead of all of us top that hill as we live our lives
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  heading toward our eternity with our loving God and Saviour.
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  Oh, how great is that? All right folks, let us do it.
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  Let us read together Psalm 124. What if the Lord had not been on
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  our side? Let all Israel repeat What if
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  the Lord had not been on our side when people attacked us?
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  They would have swallowed us alive in their burning anger.
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  The waters would have engulfed us.
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  A torrent would have overwhelmed us.
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  Yes, the raging waters of their fury would have overwhelmed our
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  very lives. Praise the Lord who did not let
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  their teeth tear us apart. We escaped like a bird from a
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  Hunter's trap. The trap is broken and we are
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  free. Our help is from the Lord who
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  made heaven and earth. Oh
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  Jesus, we don't want to even consider for a second what life
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  would be like without You here. The psalmist reflects that he
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  would have been torn apart by his enemies had it not been for
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  you and your presence. Ah, Lord, in the thousand ways
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  we don't even understand. Everyday we just thank You for
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  Your provision and the way that You carefully knit all around us
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  this web of care and love and protection that most of the time
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  we do not even know is there. Thank you Lord, for the Psalm
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  that remind us that we live each day cradled in Your loving,
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  gentle embrace. Thank you for your love.
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  Thank You that you are our help, that you made heaven and earth
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  and you hold us so gently in your hand.
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  I pray that we would Live Today in that safe grasp of your hand
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  and that we would know it. And we pray all of this in Jesus
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  name, Amen.