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September 6 - Psalm 130 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello, friends, it's Sean here and it's Friday.
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  Hey, hey, well done to you. It is also the 6th of September
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  and it's great to have your company on this a chapter a day
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  Bible reading podcast. And today might be Friday and it
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  might be September 6th, but it is also actually Fight
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  Procrastination Day. Did you know that September 6th
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  is apparently the day every year when we are meant to stop
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  procrastinating, stop putting things off for another day, and
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  get cracking on something now. But you know what?
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  That sounds like a great idea for the weekend.
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  I reckon just just put it off and I'll tackle it tomorrow.
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  But if there is something that you have been thinking, oh, I
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  really should get cracking on it, maybe today is the day.
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  Maybe today is the day you don't have to do it all.
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  Maybe you don't even have to plan everything.
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  Maybe all you need to do is take one step in that direction.
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  Do that first little thing that gets you started and maybe
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  that'll be the momentum that you need to get started on this
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  project. Well, wherever this finds you,
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  whatever the goal is that you might be working for.
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  Good luck, friends. I hope you're going well with
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  it. And I hope that maybe today
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  fight procrastination Day is something that might help.
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  But much bigger than that, something that you haven't
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  procrastinated. You tapped play, you invited me
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  in, and you have been faithful friends in listening, reading,
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  being a part of God's word shared each day.
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  And for that I am eternally grateful.
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  Because I wouldn't do it if you weren't listening.
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  Well, I would. It'd just be a lot less fun.
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  But you are here, and we read this together.
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  And today we are, are going to, you'll never believe it,
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  continue being pilgrims ascending the hill to Jerusalem
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  as we read another one of these Psalms.
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  You ready? You got your backpack on.
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  You're looking up toward that beautiful city up atop this
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  hill. Yeah, me too.
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  Let us read together Psalm 130 from the depths of despair.
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  O Lord, I call for your help. Hear my cry.
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  O Lord, pay attention to my prayer.
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  Lord, if you kept a record of our sins, who, O Lord, could
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  ever survive? But you offer forgiveness, that
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  we might learn to fear you. I'm counting on the Lord.
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  Yes, I am counting on Him. I've put my hope in his word.
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  I long for the Lord. More than centuries long for the
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  dawn. Yes, more than centuries long
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  for the dawn. O Israel, hope in the Lord.
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  For with the Lord there is unfailing love.
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  His redemption overflows. He himself will redeem Israel
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  from every kind of sin. Thank you for the Psalm.
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  Thank you for the Psalmist who cries out in hope.
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  Hope because we are forgiven. Hope because you wipe our slate
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  clean day after day after day through Jesus.
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  Hope that no matter what goes down, we can count on you, our
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  ever dependable Lord. And yes, we look forward to that
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  day when we can see you face to face more than anything else,
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  because we know that you have redeemed us.
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  We know that you have made us yours, and that as your
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  children, we have nothing to fear because we are forgiven, we
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  are loved, and we are held firmly in your hand beyond this
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  mere lifetime for eternity. Oh, you are a good, gracious and
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  faithful God, and we love you. And we pray all of this in that
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  saving name of Jesus, Amen.