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Psalm 120: about being far away from home.
Psalm 121: praise that help comes from God as they travel on the way to Jerusalem
Psalm 122: rejoicing about being at the temple
Psalm 123: gods sovereignty
Psalm 124:
God is for us:
Things that can swallow us alive: stress, worry, physical health, parenting, loss of loved ones, war between nations, loss of jobs, trouble in the Ives of our children, little insignificant things taking up all the time.
"Even though well say things and sing things to the contrary, we might live our lives as if we believe in our hearts that God at best tolerates us and how lucky we are for that. We are convinced that god created man with high hopes, but had them dashed and now he tolerates us because he's stuck with us."
Jesus hung on the cross for us even though he knew all of our days.
Eph 6:12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against spiritual powers of wickedness.
Provides perspective in our struggles. It's not a battle against the creditors or the employees or bosses or children, but against spiritual powers of evil. The devil uses every hard time to break into our lives and pull of from God.
Eph 1:4 just as he chose us to be holy and blameless before him in love.
Do these words apply to us? They do, but. It's hard to think about that since we have so many flaws. We are righteous because he made us so.
Psalm 124: if the lord has not been on our side, when men attacked us, they would have swallowed us alive. The flood would have engulfed us. The waters would have swept us way. Praise the lord who has not let us be torn by their teeth. The snare has been broken and we have escaped.
Amen. Thanks Joey!
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