Well here I am back in the states trying to get my sleeping pattern back to normal, after a 10 day stint in the bush of Africa. I have been trying over the last few days to think about those things that the Lord worked on in my life and in the life of our team that was there. There are some many things to share, and stories of lives that the Gospel has changed and seeds that were planted and others that were watered, that I could tell you and fill up this blog with, but the one thing that I want to focus on today comes from a chapter in Psalm that the Lord led me to during my devotion time.
Ps. 92:1-5-It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praises to your name, O Most High, to declare your steadfast love in the morning, and your faithfulness by night. To the music of the lute and the harp, to the melody of the lyre. For you, O Lord have made me glad by your work; at the work of your hands I sing for joy. How great are your works, O Lord! your thoughts are very deep!!
I think I read this Psalm every day and every day it blew me away. We got to see the work of the Lord in Africa, through the poverty and trials, there was an overcoming joy. The work of the Lord that I was able to encounter this trip was what happens in the life of someone who has been absolutely captured by the Gospel of Christ. The way that it changes everything, the way feelings and emotions change, the way relationships change, the way the world around is viewed differently. I was privileged to see this first hand in a country where there is not much, by worldly standards to be joyful in.
Then it hit me, this is how it is suppose to be everywhere, whether we live in Lubbock or Choma, Zambia, we have the same reason to rejoice and be joyful, Christ has saved us from an inevitable eternal death. He has plucked us out of the very hands of death, and set our feet on the solid ground. So when the Psalmist says, "I will declare your steadfast love in the morning, and your faithfulness by night..." This is what He is talking about, salvation, that God would give us another day to serve Him and shout to the world His great mercies and grace.
So today, may we, despite of our current circumstances, whether good or bad, rejoice and sing praise because He offers to us a new life in Him.
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Amen! This is so encouraging and reminds me that no matter what is going on that I have a reason to be joyful, always.
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