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Sabbath in the Psalms

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15 Days

God’s Word Is A Fountain Of Life

Day 12

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“My comfort in my suffering is this: Your promise preserves my life.”

Psalm 119:50

No matter where you are, what you are walking through, or what you are carrying, you have access to everything you need for life and life to the full. How? Through the living and active Word of God, the Holy Scripture. This does not mean that you won’t experience hardship or tension or that you won’t still walk through dark shadows. But it does mean that you will have comfort in chaos and life in the struggle. When you don’t see the value and power available to you through the Word of God, when you don’t go to it first, and you don’t learn to depend on it, you’ll find yourself striving to find answers in all the wrong places. But God has already given you the greatest answer - His Word - and when you commit to knowing it, you can find peace, resting in His secure sovereignty and remembering His track record of coming through for His people.

Reflect + Apply:

Read Psalm 119 in its entirety today and make note of all the times that the author finds joy in the word of God (his precepts, testimonies, laws, commands, etc.). Ask that God would spark that same kind of delight in your heart.

Prayer

God, I praise you for the power of your Word. Would your Spirit keep the Word close to my heart, and would I long to find You within the pages of Scripture?

Scripture References

15This is what the Sovereign

Lord

, the Holy One of Israel, says:

“In repentance and rest is your salvation,

in quietness and trust is your strength,

but you would have none of it.

1Blessed is the one

who does not walk in step with the wicked

or stand in the way that sinners take

or sit in the company of mockers,

2but whose delight is in the law of the

Lord

and who meditates on his law day and night.

11You make known to me the path of life;

you will fill me with joy in your presence,

with eternal pleasures at your right hand.

7Some trust in chariots and some in horses,

but we trust in the name of the

Lord

our God.

1The

Lord

is my shepherd, I lack nothing.

8Taste and see that the

Lord

is good;

blessed is the one who takes refuge in him.

9Fear the

Lord

, you his holy people,

for those who fear him lack nothing.

5Why, my soul, are you downcast?

Why so disturbed within me?

Put your hope in God,

for I will yet praise him,

my Savior and my God.

10for every animal of the forest is mine,

and the cattle on a thousand hills.

1Hear my cry, O God;

listen to my prayer.

2From the ends of the earth I call to you,

I call as my heart grows faint;

lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

3For you have been my refuge,

a strong tower against the foe.

10Better is one day in your courts

than a thousand elsewhere;

I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God

than dwell in the tents of the wicked.

1Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High

will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

2I will say of the

Lord

, “He is my refuge and my fortress,

my God, in whom I trust.”

1Praise the

Lord

, my soul;

all my inmost being, praise his holy name.

2Praise the

Lord

, my soul,

and forget not all his benefits—

3who forgives all your sins

and heals all your diseases,

4who redeems your life from the pit

and crowns you with love and compassion,

5who satisfies your desires with good things

so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

50My comfort in my suffering is this:

Your promise preserves my life.

1Unless the

Lord

builds the house,

the builders labor in vain.

Unless the

Lord

watches over the city,

the guards stand watch in vain.

1How good and pleasant it is

when God’s people live together in unity!

7They celebrate your abundant goodness

and joyfully sing of your righteousness.

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