Post by Woody Williams on Apr 4, 2007 6:52:00 GMT -5
Text for the Day -- Psalm 42:9-11
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I say to God, my rock,
"Why have you forgotten me?
Why must I walk about mournfully
because the enemy oppresses me?"
As with a deadly wound in my body,
my adversaries taunt me,
while they say to me continually,
"Where is your God?"
Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
my help and my God.
Devotional
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Tomorrow begins the remembrance of the terrible three days of the
suffering, death and burial of Jesus. In the midst of these days as
we read of them in the Gospels, it is as if God has abandoned his
Son. Yet, hope lives not in what is seen by sight, but by how faith
engenders hope in trusting that God will not ultimately abandon
forever. This is God's promise to us as well. As we live into our
pain and suffering, we are to keep our focus on God's promise for us
and not on what we are feeling or seeing by sight.
Prayer
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Help me not to be overcome by my struggle, Lord, but to overcome
through trust in you. Amen
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I say to God, my rock,
"Why have you forgotten me?
Why must I walk about mournfully
because the enemy oppresses me?"
As with a deadly wound in my body,
my adversaries taunt me,
while they say to me continually,
"Where is your God?"
Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
my help and my God.
Devotional
----------
Tomorrow begins the remembrance of the terrible three days of the
suffering, death and burial of Jesus. In the midst of these days as
we read of them in the Gospels, it is as if God has abandoned his
Son. Yet, hope lives not in what is seen by sight, but by how faith
engenders hope in trusting that God will not ultimately abandon
forever. This is God's promise to us as well. As we live into our
pain and suffering, we are to keep our focus on God's promise for us
and not on what we are feeling or seeing by sight.
Prayer
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Help me not to be overcome by my struggle, Lord, but to overcome
through trust in you. Amen