January 5, 2025
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Reading along with us in selections from Psalms and Proverbs? Here’s today’s reading:
Psalms 39-40 (NIV)
For the director of music. For Jeduthun. A psalm of David.
1 I said, “I will watch my ways
and keep my tongue from sin;
I will put a muzzle on my mouth
while in the presence of the wicked.”……Continue Reading
Our hope is in you Lord. David spoke of times or correction, times of waiting, and times of weakness and makes it clear that God is always working. There is no time when God looks away from us but rather is there to help us grow and dig deeper into our relationship with Him. God has been impressing on my heart so much lately that He is working in the waiting and these chapters with further reassurance that He has much work to do in me and in my life and while that may leave me in difficuly times that doesn’t mean I am alone and all of it is so temporary when I consider the hope I have in the knowledge of eternity with Him.
thanks for sharing, Kelly!
Psalms 39
It shows when we are around gossip or evil talk By saying nothing we will not be accountable to add to it. He wants to know how long he has to live.
Our life being just a breath, confirms. Age means nothing.
Piling up wealth is for nothing in God’s eyes
We all are just a blink of an eye.. Even
People who look like they have it all together.
Psalms 39-40
Psalms 39 and 40
“I waited patiently for the Lord; he turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand. He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear the Lord and put their trust in him.”
Psalms 40:1-3 NIV
https://bible.com/bible/111/psa.40.1-3.NIV
Psalm 39-40
Psalm 39-40
We have different seasons of life, different circumstances that confront us, and times when we fell more up than down and vice versa. The Psalms show us that God is the reference point for it all and He always has things to offer us. He is a constant source of comfort, security and hope. He has truth that sets us straight and forgiveness and mercy when we falter. And even when life and our own internal stuff is at a low point, God is there to hear us and is present with us in all of it. Psalm 39 has David contemplating life’s existence and being burden by himself, others and circumstances. In Psalm 40 he reflects on all the goodness and greatness of God and His person and His truth and finds the hope and confidence in it. But in the end, it doesn’t seem like he is too different a place as he was in Psalm 39. His perspective is just different because He focuses his attention on all that God is. What a good lesson for us to reflect on all that God is and find in our praise of Him the very thing we need for anything we face.