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July 19 - Psalm 123 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it is shown here. It is Friday, it's the 19th of
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  July and it is the end of another week.
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  Hello and welcome to Friday. I hope it is a good day for you
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  at the end of a great week. I am currently rubbing shoulders
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  with all the other Army Chaplains.
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  It's all very exciting as I've travelled to Melbourne and I am
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  enjoying some learning time with all these other people that I
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  didn't even know existed in the world.
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  Wealth. Conceptually I knew they
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  existed, but so good to meet people who do the same work as
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  you. Have you ever got to to have
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  that experience? It is a crackerjack.
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  Ah, yeah. It's a good day.
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  It's a good day. And we are going to continue,
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  fellow pilgrims, on our ascent to Jerusalem.
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  Yes, we are still heading up that hill.
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  It is the hill that never ends. It's a song.
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  You could sing it if you like, but this is a hill.
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  Well, this is the 4th week that we are ascending to Jerusalem.
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  And in fact, the next 11 sums will continue the ascent.
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  So, so, so there's a long way to go.
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  There's a long way to go as we settle in heading up toward
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  Jerusalem. But this is this is the Sarmast
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  wanting us to join him in his celebrations, as he has his eyes
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  set on that holy city and he walks there toward it with all
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  that God has promised him there. How fantastic.
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  Let us raise our eyes from the din around us to see God's holy
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  city ahead that we indeed walk ascend to as fellow pilgrims.
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  So let's do it, friends. Let us sing this song for
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  pilgrims ascending to Jerusalem. Sam 123
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  I lift my eyes to you. Oh, God enthroned in heaven, we
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  keep looking to the Lord our God for His mercy, just as servants
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  keep their eyes on their master as a slave girl watches her
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  mistress for the slightest signal.
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  Have mercy on us, Lord, Have mercy, for we have had our fill
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  of contempt. We have had more than our fill
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  of the scoffing of the proud and the contempt of the arrogant.
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  Indeed, Jesus, we do look to you for your mercy in a world full
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  of judgement, for all the mistakes we make, where we get
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  paid back for everything we do, good and bad.
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  We lift our eyes to you in your holy city, and we see your
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  different way, Your way of mercy.
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  And your mercy is so glorious, as the psalmist says, we keep
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  looking for it. We keep waiting for it, just for
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  the tiniest hint of mercy, because it is sweet as honey on
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  our lips to taste your mercy, Your undeserved, unfailing,
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  eternal mercy to us. Thank you that you don't come to
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  judge, that you didn't send your son to judge us.
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  Got to save us. And so we just revel in the
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  warmth and glory of Your mercy. You're saving mercy for us, and
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  we thank you for that mercy and for Jesus who embodies that
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  mercy to us. And we pray all of this in his
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  name. Ah, man.