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November 29 - Psalm 142 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it is Sean here and it is Friday.
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  Well done making it to the end of the week.
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  Well done. It is the 29th of November and
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  it's great to have your company on this significant day.
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  Why is this day so significant Sean?
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  Well, many of you would know that the world changed forever
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  52 years ago today because Atari released Pong.
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  That's right, Pong. You know the little game where
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  you've got the two little paddles that go up and down on
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  each side of the screen and the little ball that bounces between
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  them? You're going to try and bounce
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  it past your opponent's paddle. Yeah.
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  That was the very first computer game ever to be successful,
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  Commercially successful. Did you know that?
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  Pong. Yeah.
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  There you go. 52 years ago today, computer games became a
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  thing. Wow.
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  Hasn't that changed the world? Yep.
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  Today is Pong's 52nd birthday. Happy Birthday Pong, and if you
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  are not into Pong or video games, that doesn't matter
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  because well, today is all about Psalm 142 as well.
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  We get to read this Psalm as we are in the last phase of the 5th
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  book of the Psalms. And today we read a Psalm, a
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  Psalm of David regarding his experience in The Cave.
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  A prayer. This is a cry, a cry from the
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  psalmist as he himself is in hiding, crying out for God's
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  help. And I'm sure we can all relate
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  to that. So let us put down the busyness
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  of the day, whatever it is that's coming your way or has
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  come your way already, we lay that down, we open our hearts,
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  and we come before God as we with the psalmist cry out these
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  words of Psalm 142. I cry out to the Lord.
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  I plead for the Lord's mercy. I pour out my complaints before
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  Him and tell Him all my troubles when I'm overwhelmed.
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  You alone know the way I should turn.
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  Wherever I go, my enemies have set traps for me.
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  I look for someone to come and help me, but no one gives me a
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  passing thought. No one will help me, no one
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  cares a bit what happens to me. Then I pray to you, O Lord, I
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  say you are my place of refuge. You are all I really want in
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  life. Hear my cry, for I am very low.
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  Rescue me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me.
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  Bring me out of prison so I can thank you.
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  The godly will crowd around me, for you are good to me.
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  Lord, as our lives throw us challenge after challenge, as
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  David does in the Psalm, may we to cry out to you and thank you
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  that as we hear David crying out to you, he doesn't do that and
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  stay in that state of despair, but he does that with that I
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  unclad knowledge and firm belief that you hear him and you
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  respond and you save him. Oh, and Father, we know that You
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  have already saved us through everything you've done for us in
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  Jesus, and that no matter what this world throws at us, You
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  already have us firmly in your grasp and in Your loving
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  embrace. There's nothing that our life
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  can throw at us that this world can break around us that will
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  ever threaten that. Our Lord, shift our our axis so
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  that we understand that everything revolves around you
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  and Your promise to us. And all the hardships that we
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  will face in this life are temporary, but the grace and the
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  blessing that you give us holds us for eternity.
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  Let that shape our identity. Let that shape the way that we
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  approach the world today. Our Father, we lift up our hands
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  and we praise you with our whole heart, our ever loving God
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  always there in our time of Mead.
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  You truly are our remarkable saving God.
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  And we pray all of this in that saving name of Jesus, Amen.