When the present is awful and you have questions about God's care and love, think about the past.

Remember what he's done in the past.

And by remembering, recalling, meditating on what he's done on the past, it'll help you to be

reassured he won't abandon you now. How should Christians respond in their day of trouble?

Sometimes we might feel like we should just grit our teeth, smile, and hide the pain and suffering from those around us,

maybe even from God. Is that how you typically respond?

Welcome to the Friday edition of Renewing Your Mind, and today we'll be looking at a Psalm that provides practical help for us in those darker moments of life.

W. Rubic Godfrey has been with us this week helping us love the Psalms in a deeper way.

And that really was the goal behind both the series and his book, Learning to Love the Psalms.

Both resources cover different Psalms and both are available

for your gift of any amount at renewing or mind.org. Today is the final day for that offer. We live in a fallen world. You and I will face challenges. So how

should we pray? How should we respond when we find ourselves navigating darker

days and real grief? Here's Dr Godfrey.

To this point we've been looking first of all at a kind of overview of some

general themes as to how to approach reading the Psalms.

And then we've looked at a series of Psalms from Book 1 and 2 of the Psalter.

In Book 1, we looked at the King's confidence in God's care looking at Psalms that tend to be

quite personal, beginning with distress and culminating in confidence in God.

Book two is more communal, is more kingdom oriented,

I was suggesting, and I called that book

The King's Commitment to God's Kingdom.

So we're looking a little bit more at the kingdom,

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