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August 2 - Psalm 125 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here and yes, you've made it to the
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  end of another week. It's Friday, it is the 2nd of
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  August and hello great to have your company as we gather today.
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  We have covered some territory this week, reading through the
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  last chapters of John, and here we find ourselves ready to
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  celebrate the end of the week with a sound.
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  And this is also the last day that we're going to have this
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  music. You know, it's been a couple of
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  weeks of us each day frolicking through the flower laden feels
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  with this music in the back. It feels like that, doesn't it?
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  It's awesome. I have enjoyed it.
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  I hope you have too. And next fortnight, who knows
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  what the music's going to be. We will wait and find out
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  together. Yes, we will.
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  But today, today we continue as we have done for a while, and
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  we'll continue for a while, heading up that hill as pilgrims
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  heading toward Jerusalem, reading this Psalm, which is
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  another song for pilgrims ascending to Jerusalem.
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  Yes, another brief Psalm, only 5 verses in this one.
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  And we will read them together. They will be wonderful.
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  And then we will have the end of the week and a weekend ahead.
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  So friends, I wish you well. Let us do this together, Read
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  together Psalm 125. Those who trust in the Lord are
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  as secure as Mount Zion. They will not be defeated, but
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  will endure forever. Just as the mountains surround
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  Jerusalem, so the Lord surrounds his people both now and forever.
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  The wicked will not rule the land of the godly, for then the
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  godly might be tempted to do wrong.
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  O Lord, do good to those who are good, whose hearts are in tune
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  with you, but banish those who turn to crooked ways.
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  O Lord, take them away with those who do evil.
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  May Israel have peace. Oh indeed, Lord, we pray for
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  peace. We pray that your presence of
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  peace and forgiveness and tolerance would change hearts
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  throughout our world, our world that forever seems to be
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  divided, that forever seems to contain war and heartbreak and
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  hurt and pain and retribution. Lord, we pray as the psalmist
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  does, that you would surround your people both now and
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  forever, and that your presence would bring peace and all the
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  evidence of your Kingdom, Your Kingdom where you rule supreme,
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  not our human brokenness. So Lord, we cry out for you, for
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  your Kingdom to come now as it is in heaven.
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  And we pray all of this in that saving name of Jesus, Amen.