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Thursday... We need it too, yes we do.


Psalm 110:7 (NLT), "But he himself will be refreshed from brooks along the way. He will be victorious."

Thursday... We need it too, yes we do.

David in Psalm 110 ends this Psalm in verse 7 (NLT) by saying, "But he himself will be refreshed from brooks along the way. He will be victorious."


I am also reading in Matthew 12 and of how the Pharisees were having trouble with Jesus and the law of the Sabbath. And of course, Jesus took care of their legalism. They asked Jesus in verse 9, "Does the law permit a person to work by healing on the Sabbath?" Yes God had told us in his 10 commandments to not work on the Sabbath. (Six days you will labor but on the seventh rest." But this was being taken too far. And Jesus said in verse 11b, "Yes, the law permits a person to do good on the Sabbath." We take our legalism a little too far sometimes and don't see the reason for the law. In the OT God made laws for our benefit and our health.

Now over in Psalm 110:7 it says, "But he himself will be refreshed from brooks along the way. He will be victorious." Of course some could put that into a law. Yes, it is good for us to be refreshed. We need to be refreshed. But some with their personalities put that in to a have to. I have to do it and it takes aways the purpose which is to be refreshed. Just like the law of the Sabbath.

Yes, we need to set aside one day a week to focus on God but we also need to take that day to be refreshed. And yes, we also need to be refreshed in order to be victorious. Our emotions and our bodies tell us when we need to be refreshed from brooks along the way but do we stop? 

I have an ap on my phone that reminds be to stop what I am doing and stand up each hour for 60 seconds. That can be refreshing. Taking some time to take a walk can be refreshing. Taking some time around the table and eating and sharing what each member of our family is doing can be refreshing. Having a cup of coffee with a friend or a good book can be refreshing. Taking a day off and going and doing something with the family or a group of friends can be refreshing. Taking at least a week or two off in a year for a vacation can be refreshing. And of course taking a day off each week to not work but to go to church to worship and focus on God and His Word can be refreshing.

 "But he himself will be refreshed from brooks along the way. He will be victorious." Yes, we can put those times into laws but that doesn't usually make them refreshing. 

The Amplified Bible says, "He will drink from the brook by the wayside; Therefore He will lift up His head [triumphantly]." And we must stop doing what we are doing and to stop and drink from a brook. We live under so much pressure, don't we? We work so hard and we don't stop but it would be a very good thing to stop and drink from a brook and be refreshed. We need to be refreshed to be victorious. Now some all they do is to be refreshed. We also do need to work. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning



 

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