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August 11 - Psalm 77 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it is Sean here and it is a Friday and bully for
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  you for making it to the end of another week.
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  Here we are getting to read Assam together and today we are
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  reading another Psalm of Asaf. And this is a Psalm of lament, A
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  Psalm where the psalmist cries out remembering that God does
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  help Israel and hoping that God will do just that because it
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  doesn't seem like things are going well.
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  And what a lovely reminder for us that when it all goes pear
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  shaped that their God is saying cry out to me.
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  Here I am ready to help. So this is a Psalm for Jedison,
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  the choir director. A Psalm of ASAP.
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  No stringed instruments, no liars, no nothing.
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  Just you and me and these words of Psalm 77.
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  I cry out to God. Yes, I shout.
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  Oh, that God would listen to me when I was in deep trouble.
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  I searched for the Lord all night long.
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  I prayed with hands lifted toward heaven, but my soul was
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  not comforted. I think of God, and I moan,
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  overwhelmed with longing for his help.
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  You don't let me sleep. I'm too distressed even to pray.
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  I think of the good old days, long since ended, when my nights
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  were filled with joyful songs. I search my soul and ponder the
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  difference now. Has the Lord rejected me
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  forever? Will he never again be kind to
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  me? Is his unfailing love gone
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  forever? Have his promises permanently
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  failed? Has God forgotten to be
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  gracious? Has he slammed the door on his
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  compassion? And I said, this is my fate.
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  The Most High has turned his hand against me.
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  But then I recall all you have done.
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  Oh Lord, I remember your wonderful deeds of long ago.
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  They are constantly in my thoughts.
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  I cannot stop thinking about your mighty works.
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  Oh God, your ways are holy. Is there any God as mighty as
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  you? You are the God of great
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  wonders. You demonstrate your awesome
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  power among the nations. By your strong arm you redeem
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  your people, the descendants of Jacob and Joseph.
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  When the Red Sea saw you, oh God, its waters looked and
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  trembled. The sea quaked to its very
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  depths. The clouds poured down rain.
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  The Thunder rumbled in the sky. Your arrows of lightning
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  flashed. Your Thunder roared from the
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  whirlwind. The lightning lit up the world.
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  The earth trembled and shook. Your Rd. led through the sea,
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  your pathway through the mighty waters, a pathway no one knew
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  was there. You led your people along that
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  road like a flock of sheep, with Moses and Aron as their
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  shepherds. Thank you for the Psalm, Lord,
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  because sometimes we do just feel despair and like we are far
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  down in a deep well and we don't even know how to pray.
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  Thank you that at times like this we hear the Psalmists not
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  relying on how terrible they feel and how hopeless their
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  plight seems. But they remember all you have
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  done, and they claim your promises of old help us to rely
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  on what we know to be true about you and your love for us, even
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  when our emotions are telling us a different story.
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  We claim you as our everlasting, ever compassionate, ever
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  consistent and loving God. And we thank you for being so
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  incredibly biased in our favor with your love and your
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  provision for us. We love you, we thank you, and
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  we lift you up. And we pray all of this in Jesus
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  name. Amen.