Friday... We each have our own perspective.

Psalm 112:4a (NLT), "Light shines in the darkness for the godly."

Friday... We each have our own perspective.

We really do.

David starts Psalm 102 by saying in verse 1 (NLT), "Praise the Lord." and no matter what we are facing today that is a great place to start. And then he says in verse 4a, "Light shines in the darkness for the godly."

I read this morning in Facebook of the death of one of our friends. It was sudden and I am so sorry to those of her family. That is definitely a dark place. And again, I am so sorry.

Now death may not be a part of your situation that you are facing today. Yes, we each one have our situation and for many they are dark. But David says "Light shines in the darkness for the godly." And that probably is hard for us to see as we face our dark situation.

I also in my reading this morning read in John 11 of some bad news that one of Jesus' good friends was very sick and about to die and his sister had sent a message to Jesus to come fast. She knew he could heal him but Jesus looked at this situation from a different perspective.

Verse 4 says, "But when Jesus heard about it he said, 'Lazarus's sickness will not end in death. No, it happened for the glory of God so that the Son of God will receive glory from this.'" And that is definitely a different perspective. And maybe that darkness you are facing and you are praying to God to take care of may be happening from God's perspective. Remember, "Light shines in the darkness for the gody." If we have given our darkness to God then we must trust him.

Now Jesus didn't come when they asked him to come and Lazarus did die so when he did come, it was when everyone was grieving and verse 35 says, "Then Jesus wept." He emotionally saw this from these people's perspective. Yes, Jesus cares in what is happening to us. But from his perspective death was not suppose to happen. God had a different plan but sin came into the Garden of Eden and God's plan changed. This darkness came because of disobedience. Death was not God's plan and Jesus wept because of their grief.

Yes, Jesus did bring his friend back to life but down the road everyone is going to die. But in this darkness, believers will have the reward of eternal life. John 3:16 says, "For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life." Death for the believer is just a moving to a new home forever. Yes, those who are left behind feel the emotions of separation and again that wasn't God's plan and this verse tells how he took care of it.

Now there was one other group who should have been excited about what happen but the religious leaders saw it as a problem. They saw from their perspective that people were going to turn from follow them to following Jesus so they set out to kill him and also Lazarus but again John 3:16 shows how God used the darkness for good. Jesus was resurrected from the dead.

So in your darkness first of all turn to God and praise him and then believe that "Light shines in the darkness for the godly." That is the perspective that we can have because it is true. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

Friday... We have this hope of expectancy.

Psalm 5:3 (NLT), "Listen to my voice in the morning Lord. Each morning I bring my requests to you and wait expectantly." Friday... We have this hope of expectancy. Now David found a great way to start his day. He says in Psalm 5:1-3 (NLT), "O LORD, hear me as I pray." And that is a great place to start. It really is. Morning sunrise He goes on, "Listen to my cry for help, my King, my God, for I pray to no one but you." And that is so important. We don't try to pump ourselves up by ourself. No, we pray to no one but you, God, my LORD, my King. Now this relationship with God is so, so very important. And then David says, "Listen to my voice in the morning, LORD. Each morning I bring my requests to you" And that is so great. And then he says, "and wait expectantly." Yes, we have this hope of expectancy. We are experienced. That is what a relationship with God and a moment by moment connection does. It makes a difference in our daily wa...

Friday... Yes, we can know this to be true.

Psalm 12:6 (NLT), "The Lord's promises are pure, like silver refined in a furnace, purified seven times over." Friday... Yes, we can know this to be true. Maybe this is what you want to say in this day in which we live. Psalm 12:1-2 (MSG) says, "Quick, I need your helping hand! The last decent person just went down, all the friends I depend on gone. Everyone talks in lie language; lies slide off their oily lips. They doubletalk with forked tongues." Do you ever feel that way?" Have you found that to be true? Well David the writer of this Psalm continues and says in verse 6 something to encourage us, to lift us up, to give us hope. Psalm 12:6 (NLT) says, "The Lord's promises are pure, like silver refined in a furnace, purified seven times over." The Message Paraphrase says verses 6-8 this way, "God's words are pure words, pure silver words refined seven times in the fires of his word-kiln, pure on earth as well as in heaven, God, keep ...

Friday... So what is it that you really fear?

1 Corinthians 15:57 (NLT), "But thank God! He gives us victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ." Friday... So what is it that you really fear? Yes, fear holds us back. It seems to take hold of us so that we can't even really enjoy living. Now I have found that one of the best ways to handle fear is to solve the problem of what we fear. Let's say that death is what we really fear. Everyday we wake up afraid to get up because we are afraid to do anything because we are afraid to die. And that is so understandable. Now I have found the solution to fearing death. I have through faith taken care of my fear to die. 1 Corinthians 15:57 (NLT) says, "But thank God! He gives us victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ." Verse 22 (CEV) says, "Adam brought death to all of us, and Christ will bring life to all of us." Death was not God's plan. Adam was created for an eternal life but he and his partner, Eve blew it and sin a...

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