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Psalm 119:89-92 Forever, O LORD, your word is firmly fixed in the heavens. Your faithfulness endures to all generations; you have established the earth, and it stands fast. By your appointment they stand this day, for all things are your servants. If your law had not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.
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Download audio fileWhen a storm blows in on our lives, we need to know the truth about God. We need to know it not just in our heads, but in our hearts and in our experience. As you look back on your life, what are some of the amazing things that God has already done for you?
I remember, even before I knew God, when I was a three packet a day smoker, He took me to a place, where I watched someone die of lung cancer. I haven’t smoked a single cigarette since, and that was over thirty-four years ago. I was set free from a serious addiction, in an instant.
God’s hand is on our lives even when we have absolutely no idea. And when we know His love and His faithfulness like that, in our hearts and in our experience, we can, like the psalmist proclaim:
Forever, O LORD, your word is firmly fixed in the heavens. Your faithfulness endures to all generations; you have established the earth, and it stands fast. By your appointment they stand this day, for all things are your servants. If your law had not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction. (Psalm 119:89-92)
When the whole earth shakes and trembles, the Word of God is firmly fixed in the heavens. God’s Word is unshakeable and immovable. When generations pass, as they do, His faithfulness endures. That’s what I call a rock-solid foundation. And it’s that sort of foundation that you and I need in our lives, to withstand the challenges and the storms and the wilderness experiences.
The reason I open my Bible most mornings, is because that’s where I choose for my foundations to be. I, like you, have things that come along to rock me, to shake me. Things that could easily blow me over.
I so get it, when the psalmist says there, if God’s law, God’s Word, hadn’t been his delight, he would have perished in his affliction.
Let me make it plain and clear. Unmistakable. In God’s Word is your refuge, in God’s Word is your strength. When you sit and listen to Him speaking into your heart, something happens to change you in the most incredible way. I know … I know that many people struggle hugely to get into God’s Word, either because they think that they don’t have the time, or they imagine that it’s too difficult.
But take just that one Scripture, Psalm 119:89-92, just spend some time in those three verses in the middle of your affliction and I guarantee you that the Holy Spirit will show up. I guarantee you that God will take that Word of His and breathe courage into your heart and life, into your weary bones. Because that’s what He does and that’s what He wants to do.
That’s God’s Word. Fresh … for you … today.
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