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July 12 - Psalm 122 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's shown here and you clever things.
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  You have made it to the end of another week.
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  It is Friday and I'm so glad to have your company because here
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  we are getting to share together a sum and we are working our way
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  up this very, very seemingly unending hill to Jerusalem.
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  Because you might remember the last two, Sam Sam, 120 and 121
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  are titled A Song for pilgrims Ascending to Jerusalem.
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  And today's is called the same. But it adds after that a sum of
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  David. So yes, this is a very, very
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  long hill. Do you know that when people
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  talk about London, or back in the day when they used to talk
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  about London, it was always, we're going up to London.
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  Didn't matter what direction they were travelling, they were
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  going up to London because it was the high place that people
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  would ascend to figuratively. And I guess Jerusalem must be
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  the same because, boy, we have been ascending for weeks and we
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  still haven't reached the height of Jerusalem.
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  What a place. That's city on a hill.
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  We are heading there today. Strap on your rucksack, get that
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  drink bottle or your bladder strapped inside your pack with
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  that little tube that you can suck on as you walk.
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  If you don't have one of those, that's a very helpful thing when
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  you're hiking. But we are heading up that hill
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  together. We are going to share this song,
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  this Sam, this poem as we take it step by step.
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  It's not a long one, but it's a great one.
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  So join me as we head up to Jerusalem.
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  In sum, 122 I was glad when they said to me,
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  let us go to the House of the Lord.
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  And now here we are standing inside your gates of Jerusalem.
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  Jerusalem is a well built city. It seamless walls cannot be
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  breached. All the tribes of Israel, the
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  Lord's people, make their pilgrimage here.
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  They come to give thanks to the name of the Lord, as the law
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  requires of Israel. Here stand the Thrones where
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  judgement is given. The Thrones of the dynasty of
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  David. Pray for peace in Jerusalem.
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  May all who love this city prosper all Jerusalem.
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  May there be peace within your walls and prosperity in your
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  palaces. For the sake of my family and
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  friends, I will say, may you have peace.
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  For the sake of the House of the Lord our God, I will seek what
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  is best for you or Jerusalem. Ah Lord, we are just that.
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  We are pilgrims on this path toward your holy city.
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  Ah Lord, these lives are climbing up this hill heading
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  towards you, and may you keep our eyes ever on your holy city
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  atop that hill, knowing that our destination is indeed this place
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  of peace beside your throne. Our holy God, thank you that you
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  don't just sit there in judgement, staring out across
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  your Kingdom, but you look to us and you see us walking toward
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  you. And you prepare a place for us
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  so that when we do reach your holy city, it won't be a strange
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  land that we enter, but it will be our home with you, where we
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  are loved and we have a place where we belong and we are
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  welcomed in your family. What a crazy wonderful gift this
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  is for us. Thank You that you would love us
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  so much that you would carefully make a space just for me and
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  just for each one of us to spend eternity with you, our loving,
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  welcoming Father. And all this is possible because
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  of what Jesus has done for us. So it's in His name that we
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  pray. Amen.