Always more to learn

Our Daily Bread
The devotional seemed nice today and maybe didn't even apply a whole lot for a change!  THEN, it hit me.  I was being pompous about my Bible study.  Yes, I have studied the Bible a lot in my life, especially in the last two years.  It hit me that I need to look at the Bible from a new perspective each time I open it.  I have changed since the last time I read a passage.  My life has changed.  God hasn't.  He is waiting there to reveal himself to me each and every second I pursue him.  Praise God!

Lord, help me never assume I know all there is to know about you or your Word!

Psalm Sunday
Psalm 44 is beautifully written like so many of the other psalms.  Read it out loud to see what it can mean to you.


Psalm 44

    For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. A maskil.
 1 We have heard it with our ears, O God;
   our ancestors have told us
what you did in their days,
   in days long ago.
2 With your hand you drove out the nations
   and planted our ancestors;
you crushed the peoples
   and made our ancestors flourish.
3 It was not by their sword that they won the land,
   nor did their arm bring them victory;
it was your right hand, your arm,
   and the light of your face, for you loved them.

 4 You are my King and my God,
   who decrees victories for Jacob.
5 Through you we push back our enemies;
   through your name we trample our foes.
6 I put no trust in my bow,
   my sword does not bring me victory;
7 but you give us victory over our enemies,
   you put our adversaries to shame.
8 In God we make our boast all day long,
   and we will praise your name forever.

 9 But now you have rejected and humbled us;
   you no longer go out with our armies.
10 You made us retreat before the enemy,
   and our adversaries have plundered us.
11 You gave us up to be devoured like sheep
   and have scattered us among the nations.
12 You sold your people for a pittance,
   gaining nothing from their sale.

 13 You have made us a reproach to our neighbors,
   the scorn and derision of those around us.
14 You have made us a byword among the nations;
   the peoples shake their heads at us.
15 I live in disgrace all day long,
   and my face is covered with shame
16 at the taunts of those who reproach and revile me,
   because of the enemy, who is bent on revenge.

 17 All this came upon us,
   though we had not forgotten you;
   we had not been false to your covenant.
18 Our hearts had not turned back;
   our feet had not strayed from your path.
19 But you crushed us and made us a haunt for jackals;
   you covered us over with deep darkness.

 20 If we had forgotten the name of our God
   or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
21 would not God have discovered it,
   since he knows the secrets of the heart?
22 Yet for your sake we face death all day long;
   we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.

 23 Awake, Lord! Why do you sleep?
   Rouse yourself! Do not reject us forever.
24 Why do you hide your face
   and forget our misery and oppression?

 25 We are brought down to the dust;
   our bodies cling to the ground.
26 Rise up and help us;
   rescue us because of your unfailing love.


Other Stuff
Didn't do much yesterday.  I was sick.  Went to choir rehearsal.  Slept.  Ate supper and read D1 stuff.  Went to bed for the night.  Whew!  I did manage a quick Bowflex workout in there somewhere.  Whew...

Please say a prayer for my throat this morning.  If feels like it wants to jump out of my neck it is so sore.  ;-(

Let go, my friends!  God will be there to catch you and hold you in his loving arms!