Quick fix

Our Daily Bread
Duct tape. There are many stories about guys using duct tape to "fix" a problem. Most of the time the fix is only temporary, so we put on more duct tape to "fix" the problem again instead of fixing it the right way! Yikes!

Our Christian lives can be like this. We pray for God to "fix" a situation in our lives with our short-sighted requests instead of asking God to help us truly get to the root of the problem. As I wrote about yesterday, God doesn't want us to have lesser things, which includes the fixes he puts in our lives. Many times the fixes take a while, like in the case of behavioral or attitude fixes, but they last a lifetime! Praise God! Let us pray for each other to ask God to do what is best for us and be patient with his answer and his "fix"!

Lord, you know us. You know the "fixes" we need. Please help us trust and obey!

Psalm Sunday
We have a pretty awesome psalm this week!  I am sure you will recognize it and love it as much as I do!

Psalm 146

Praise for God’s Help

1 Praise the Lord!
Praise the Lord, O my soul!
2 I will praise the Lord as long as I live;
    I will sing praises to my God all my life long.
3 Do not put your trust in princes,
    in mortals, in whom there is no help.
4 When their breath departs, they return to the earth;
    on that very day their plans perish.
5 Happy are those whose help is the God of Jacob,
    whose hope is in the Lord their God,
6 who made heaven and earth,
    the sea, and all that is in them;
who keeps faith forever;
7     who executes justice for the oppressed;
    who gives food to the hungry.
The Lord sets the prisoners free;
8     the Lord opens the eyes of the blind.
The Lord lifts up those who are bowed down;
    the Lord loves the righteous.
9 The Lord watches over the strangers;
    he upholds the orphan and the widow,
    but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.
10 The Lord will reign forever,
    your God, O Zion, for all generations.
Praise the Lord!

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Living out of love for God and pleasing Him should be our heart’s desire. - Our Daily Bread