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🗓️ 16 April 2023
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0:00.0 | Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible recap. |
0:13.1 | We have another day of Psalms today, another day where David is responding to God in light |
0:17.6 | of his circumstances. |
0:19.0 | And as a refresher, he's been promised the throne, but the current king has been hunting |
0:23.4 | him down until recently, and he's living in the desert. |
0:26.9 | Most of these Psalms have some sort of lament woven into them, but also lots of hope. |
0:31.5 | I'm not sure my heart would be so filled with praise if I were in David's circumstances. |
0:36.3 | In Psalm 56, David reminds himself of what is eternal, and he fixes his eyes on that, |
0:41.3 | on God, in the midst of his troubles. |
0:43.7 | It's easy to think God is distant or unfeeling when we're going through trials, but David |
0:48.2 | knows that's not true. |
0:49.7 | He says God has kept count of his tossing, has stored his tears in a bottle, and has recorded |
0:55.1 | all of this in detail in his book. |
0:57.8 | God knows and God sees. |
1:00.4 | He's not distant. |
1:02.0 | David knows that God is for him, despite what his circumstances seem to say. |
1:07.2 | Psalm 120 is a bit different from most laments. |
1:09.8 | It's short and it doesn't end with hope or praise. |
1:12.6 | It's almost like he wrote it in a rush. |
1:14.8 | And you know what? |
1:15.8 | I love that it got recorded like this. |
1:18.3 | It's his honest thoughts, his hearts cry to God, unpollished and seemingly incomplete, |
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