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September 15 - Psalm 82 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends. It is Sean.
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  Here it is Friday, it is the 15th of September.
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  And hello, welcome to the end of the week.
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  Congratulations. Here we are.
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  You have made it through all of those difficult, full,
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  challenging days, I bet. Whether it's study that you're
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  knuckling down as we get toward the end of the year, or work
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  when there's only one of you and 100 things to be done at the
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  same time. Full busy days, or whether you
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  are caring for someone who needs your attention when there's just
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  not enough hours in the day for you to take a moment for
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  yourself. Our weeks are full and I just
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  want to encourage you that here at the end of another week, you
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  and I can just put down the challenges and busyness of our
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  weeks and come before our loving God.
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  And we do that today with a Psalm.
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  This is a brief Psalm. This is a Psalm of ASAP.
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  This is a Psalm of lament about crying out for the justice of
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  God. So whatever's coming or going or
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  rushing around in your head, let us take a moment, place it down,
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  and we come before you got our God of Justice.
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  And we open our hearts, our ears, and our minds to hear what
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  you have to say to us as we read together.
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  Psalm 82 God presides over heaven's
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  course. He pronounces judgments on the
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  heavenly beings. How long will you hand down
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  unjust decisions by favoring the wicked?
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  Give justice to the poor and the orphan.
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  Uphold the rights of the oppressed and the destitute.
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  Rescue the poor and the helpless.
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  Deliver them from the grasp of evil people.
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  But these oppressors know nothing.
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  They are so ignorant they wonder about in darkness while the
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  whole world is shaken to the core.
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  I say you are gods. You are all children of the Most
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  High. But you will die like mere
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  mortals and fall like every other ruler.
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  Rise up, oh God, and judge the earth for all the nations belong
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  to you. You are in the driver's seat,
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  our God, When the world feels like it's heading in the wrong
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  direction, but justice feels like it's a dream that will
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  never become reality, let us sit firmly in the sure knowledge
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  that you, our just and present God, are sovereign over
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  everything and that all nations belong to you.
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  Help us. Have enough faith in you and
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  your sovereignty that the injustices of the world, yes,
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  they may rile us up, that we would be your voice for justice.
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  They would not bring us despair, because we know that you are a
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  God of justice and that you rule from your heavenly throne.
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  So we praise you, our great God of justice, and we thank you
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  that you bring that justice. And more than justice, you bring
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  your grace, your undeserved love and forgiveness for us, even
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  when we don't deserve it. Thank you for everything that
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  you give us, showing us who you are in Jesus for comforting us
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  in your spirit. We just give you our praise, We
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  give you our all, and it's in Jesus name that we pray.
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  Amen.