mark this: Psalm 46:1--
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Train yourself to think 'Jesus' first--whenever you're in trouble.
Whenever you need to escape, think Jesus first. Whenever you need to stand and fight, think Jesus first. Whenever you need shelter from the storm, look to Jesus first.
It is not always easy to look to God first. So train yourself, and someday it will become a habit. Then continue to train yourself--and someday it will become an instinct.
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The Psalms are to be done--activated--more than they are to be studied.
So do the Psalms. Pray them out loud to God. Attach melody and sing them--or rhythm and rap them.
Write a psalm. Live the psalms. Pour out your soul.
The Psalms are all-consuming passion and lavish love.
Many authors wrote the Psalms. But far more were written by King David than by any other. You can feel, hear, see, taste, and smell his extravagant love for God in his Psalms.
Develop, like David did, an inordinate love for God. David's love for God was so intense that it embarrassed the people around him.
Don't measure love. Don't make sense of love. Do love.
(Franklyn is in the middle of a lake in the middle of nowhere, far beyond the reach of the internet, until August 23rd, when the fully updated daily posts will resume. He is hoping that the fish won't bite, because all he wants to do is listen for the loons, calling deep unto deep. In the meantime, he hopes that you do a Psalm or two--pray them, sing them, write them, feel them, dance them, cry them. Love Jesus foolishly and recklessly. That's how He loves you: the cross of Jesus Christ is a reckless, desperate love.)
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