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June 28 - Psalm 120 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's shown here and it is.
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  Yes, yes it is. It's Friday.
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  It's the 28th of June. Here we are at the end of
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  another week. Good on you friends, You have
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  made it and we are going to celebrate the way we usually do
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  not by reading some insanely epically long Psalm as we have
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  been doing for the last three weeks.
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  Note, we have made it through that long poem, Psalm 119 to
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  find ourselves at Psalm 120, which is a whopping 7 verses
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  long. Yes, these sums are not
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  consistent in their length, but they are consistent in their
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  voice of crying out to our God, something for everything.
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  And the last three weeks we have been crying out to God,
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  exclaiming and how wonderful His word is.
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  And today we cry out to God asking for rescue, knowing,
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  knowing that our God hears us. Ah, what a treat.
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  What a treat at the end of the week.
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  So we are going to settle in, and this is not a long one, but
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  we will hear every one of these verses and squeeze all the
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  goodness we can out of them. They're edited to do that.
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  Me too. This is a song for pilgrims
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  ascending to Jerusalem. So put on your backpacks, look
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  up that hill toward Jerusalem, and let us walk up together,
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  singing, reciting, reading some 120.
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  I took my troubles to the Lord, I cried out to Him, and He
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  answered my prayer. Rescue me, O Lord, from liars
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  and from all deceitful people. Old deceptive tongue, What will
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  God do to you? How will he increase your
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  punishment? You will be pierced with sharp
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  arrows and burned with glowing coals.
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  How I suffer in far off Mashek. It pains me to live in distant
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  Kedah. I'm tired of living among people
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  who hate peace. I search for peace, but when I
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  speak of peace, they want war. My Lord, will you all know of
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  this? Only too well places where we go
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  and we attempt to speak peace, but they just want war.
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  When we find ourselves surrounded by conflict and lies
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  and untruths, rather than lowering ourselves to that level
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  or putting up our fortification, Lord, let us like the psalmist
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  does, Bring it to you. Cry out to you because you will
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  answer our prayers. Thank you that in the midst of
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  all the ups and downs of our lives, the thing that remains
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  constant through and through is you and your presence with us
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  and your ear bent toward our cry.
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  So today, as things go well and things go badly, may our heart
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  respond by crying out to You, our present, loving and deeply
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  embedded God. Ah, thank you for being here
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  with us. We love you and we praise you,
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  and we pray all of this in the loving name of Jesus.
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  Ah, man.