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April 26 - Psalm 113 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Shawn. Here it is.
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  Friday. It's the 26th of April and Happy
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  Friday to you. Hope you're doing great.
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  Hope the weekend ahead is looking full of promise and
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  maybe even a little bit of downtime to spend doing
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  something that you love or maybe with someone that you love.
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  This is the day that we get to redesign together and this is a
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  Psalm of praise. It is a brief one, only 9 verses
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  long, so we will ring every syllable of praise from from
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  this. It's a beauty and it's ironic
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  that these arms are so brief and so wonderful.
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  And then just a few Sims later, we have the longest Sam in the
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  Bible that we are going to have to split up, not entered into
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  two days, but into three because it's so long.
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  That's 119. And if we tried to read that in
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  one day, friends, the Bible Reading podcast would go for a
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  day and a half, I reckon. No, not quite, but it's a long
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  one. But we're going to get there in
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  a few weeks. But for right now, we are going
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  to gather together to celebrate with some words of praise
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  together reading Psalm 113. Praise the Lord.
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  Yes, give praise those servants of the Lord, Praise the name of
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  the Lord. Blessed be the name of the Lord
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  now and forever, everywhere from east to West.
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  Praise the name of the Lord, for the Lord is high above the
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  nations. His glory is higher than the
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  heavens. Who could be compared with the
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  Lord our God, who was enthroned on high?
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  He Stoops to look down on heaven and on earth.
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  He lifts the poor from the dust and the needy from the garbage
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  dump. He sets them among princes, even
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  the princes of his own people. He gives the childless woman a
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  family, making her a happy mother.
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  Praise the Lord all Lord, what an incredible
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  God. You are worthy of our praise.
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  You exist in the highest heavens on your almighty throne.
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  That's even above the highest heavens.
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  You have to stoop down to the heavens.
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  And yet the psalmist says that when you bring your attention
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  down to earth, it's the poor, it's the childless, it's those
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  who are struggling who capture your heart, and you use your
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  mighty power and presence to draw the struggling out of their
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  depths of despair and to bring them to a place of wholeness.
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  What an incredible example you give us, Lord.
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  What a countercultural, counterintuitive way that you
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  have about you. Transform our hearts to that as
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  we find ourselves in positions of privilege that we would use
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  our privilege to love those who are in need.
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  And when we do find ourselves in need and we look up out of the
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  valley, may we see you stretching to us, with your
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  attention honed on us and our plight so that we would know we
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  are never alone. You are a glorious, wonderful,
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  kind and present God, and we praise you with our whole
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  hearts. And it's all in the name of
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  Jesus that we pray these things. Ah, man.