February
01, 2016 Monday Message:
“Into
your hands I commit my spirit; deliver me, LORD, my faithful God.” Psalm 31:5
If
you attend a church where hymnals are used, that book doesn’t contain only the
5 songs you’re singing today. Most hymnals contain hundreds of songs. A lot of
those share the same theme: God is mighty, God is powerful, God’s character is
unchanging, God is eternal, God loves us. Now a poet could phrase those
thoughts hundreds of different ways, and a musician could sing those words of praise
to a thousand different melodies.
Psalms
is often called the hymnal of the Bible, so it’s not surprising that those same
God-themes keep recurring. And since David penned the majority of Psalms,
they’re a mirror of his life-experiences with God, not unlike our own walk with
the LORD.
If
you could graph David’s life, it would look like a roller-coaster – up and
down, up and down. David, like most of us, would sin and then repent, sin and
repent, up and down. David’s enemies and later Israel’s enemies would come
after him, but then God would rescue him and deliver him, up and down.
David
had learned that he was powerless over most of these situations. The solution
was to ‘let go and let God.’ “Trust in the LORD with all your heart; lean
not on your own understanding.” Proverbs 3:5 David NEEDED God. It was time for David to get out of the
driver’s seat, and trust God to direct his path. Experience had taught him that
life worked better when God was in charge.
“The
LORD preserves those who are true to Him.” Psalms 31:23b
Norton
Lawellin
Jesus
in the City Fellowship (JICF) meets at 10 am every Sunday in the North end
(gym) of the Oliver Ministry Building, 2647 Bloomington Ave., Minneapolis. This
Sunday, Feb. 07, 2016, Pastor Michael Pilla begins teaching from Romans.
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