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🗓️ 15 June 2022
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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 | It's been a while since we had an All Psalms day. |
0:15.9 | Today we launched out with Psalm 134, which is the last of the Psalms of Ascent. |
0:20.4 | It's super short. |
0:21.9 | And I think it's so sweet of the Lord to put this song in our reading plan on the exact |
0:25.8 | day our crew lands in Israel. |
0:28.1 | So I can literally say these words of the last verse from the same place God's people |
0:32.0 | have been saying these words for 3,000 years. |
0:34.8 | May the Lord bless you from Zion, he who made heaven and earth. |
0:39.4 | In Psalm 146, the Psalmist reminds us not to put our trust in people. |
0:44.0 | This isn't a call to be cynical or suspicious of everyone. |
0:47.5 | It's more along the lines of not expecting people to rescue us or fulfill us. |
0:52.6 | When we place on a human, the kind of workload only God can carry, it crushes them |
0:57.9 | and it disappoints us. |
1:00.6 | Verse 5 says, blessed is He whose hope is in the Lord. |
1:05.0 | This person who puts their confidence in God, not in what he can do for you or how he |
1:08.7 | can make all your dreams come true, but in God himself, period, will be blessed. |
1:14.5 | This isn't saying if you hope in God that you'll get all those material blessings you're |
1:17.6 | tempted to try to claim. |
1:19.4 | The word blessed here is often translated happy. |
1:23.6 | So it boils down to this. |
1:25.5 | When we trust God in all things, it brings a freedom that doesn't exist elsewhere. |
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