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Friday... He knows where we are.


Friday... He knows where we are.

I don't know where you are in your life but he knows and he can and will make a difference. Yes, he will.

Here are the first verses that I read this morning and here is the key. A great place to start our day is the Bible. I know, I know, that is an endless record that I play but it does, it really does make a difference in our day.

So here is what Psalm 130:1-2 (NLT) says, "From the depths of despair, O Lord, I call for your help. Hear my cry, O Lord. Pay attention to my prayer." And that is the next place for us to go in our new day.

Now, let's say that we wake up with a deep memory of what we might have done yesterday and we feel guilty. That can bring great despair. Guilt is a horrible way to start our day. Verses 3 & 4 says, "Lord, if you kept a record of our sins, who, O Lord, could ever survive? But you offer forgiveness, that we might learn to fear you." And that is great news.

The Amplified Bible says it this way, "If You, Lord, should keep an account of our sins and treat us accordingly, O Lord, who could stand [before you in judgment and claim innocence]? But there is forgiveness with You, that You may be feared and worshiped [with submissive wonder]." 

Yes, our sins can bring us into deep despair but in God there is definite hope. Galatians 2:16 (NLT) says, "Yet we know that a person is made right with God by faith in Jesus Christ, not by obeying the law. And we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we might be right with God because of our faith in Christ, not because we have obeyed the law. For no one will ever me made right with God by obeying the law."

Psalm 130:4 (GNT) says, "But you forgive us, so that we should stand in awe of you." Yes, if you are in despair because of your sins, God can take care of that. Yes he can and he will if you ask him to.

But then verse 5 says, "I am counting on the Lord; yes, I am counting on him. I have put my hope in his word." Verse 7, "O Israel, hope in the Lord; for with the Lord there is unfailing love. His redemptions overflows." Believe that, yes believe that. Yes, "hope in the Lord, for there is unfailing love." 

So back to verses 1 & 2, "From the depths of despair, O Lord, I call for your help. Hear my cry, O Lord. Pay attention to my prayer." And he will. He will. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning




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