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Okay, Paul, today we're in Psalms 26 through

30. Where do we want to focus in our episode today? Yeah, so I'd love to highlight Psalms 27 and 30 for us.

So Psalm 27 is what you might call kind of am of confidence from David, where he's essentially expressing

confidence in God. So he says, the Lord is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? The Lord

is the stronghold of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid? And if you think about David's life,

he's someone that was pursued by Saul, He faced all kinds of enemies, had familial

conflict, all kinds of crazy situations. And yet he's capable of praying a prayer like this,

of complete confidence in God. And I think that just begs the question, how? Like, how could that

be possible? And I think we get the answer here in verse four, which says, I have asked one thing from the Lord.

It is what I desire to dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, gazing on the beauty of the Lord and seeking him in his temple.

So David's a king and the leader of an army. And so you'd think that it might

be military power or his throne that gives him confidence. And, you know, he might ask God to

kind of empower his men or give him tactical discernment, but instead he simply asks for God's

presence, which might be surprising. But it really challenges me when I think about what are the

things in my life that give me confidence? Is it my skills that God's given me? Is it the people

that I have around me, the relationships I have? Or is it God himself, right? And it's not just David's circumstance of, you know, needing

deliverance that draws him to God. It's also at the end of verse four, he says, he longs to gaze

on the beauty of the Lord. And, you know, at Daily Grace, we talk about the beauty of Jesus and the

truth of scripture. And so asking God to reveal his beauty to us, I think is a

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