OUR DAILY BREAD : TRAVELING COMPANION
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2013 1:10 amNovember 19
Tuesday
TRAVELING
COMPANION
READ:
Psalm 39
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For I am a stranger
with You, a sojourner,
as all my fathers were.
__Psalm 39:12
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I looked up the members of my seminary graduating class recently and discovered that many of my friends are now deceased. It was a sober reminder of the brevity of life. Three score and ten, give or take a few years, and we're gone (Psa. 90:10). Israel's poet was right: We're but strangers here and sojourners (39:12).
The brevity of life makes us think about our "end"__the measure of our days and how fleeting they are (v.4), a feeling that grows more certain as we draw closer to the end of our lives. This world is not our home; we're but strangers and sojourners here.
Yet we are not alone on the journey . We are strangers and sojourners with God (39:12), a thought that makes the journey less troubling, less frightening, less worrisome. We pass through this world and into the next with a loving Father as our constant companion and guide. We're strangers here on earth, but we are never alone on the journey (73:23-24). We have One who says, "I am with you always" (Matt. 28:20).
We may lose sight of father, mother, spouse, and friends, but we always know that God is walking beside us. an old saying puts it like this: "Good company on the road makes the way to seem lighter." __David Roper
```````````````````My times are in my Father's hand;````````````````````
```````````````````How could I wish or ask for more?```````````````````
`````````````````For He who has my pathway planned````````````````````
``````````````Will guide me till my journey's o'er. __Fraser````````````````
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As you travel life's weary road,
let Jesus lift your heavy load.
**************************Today's Bible Reading __ psalm 39************************
1 I said, "I will guard my
ways, lest I sin with my
tongue; I will restrain my
mouth with a muzzle,
while the wicked are before me."
2 I was mute with silence, I
held my peace even from
good; and my sorrow was
stirred up. 3 My heart was hot
within me; while I was
musing, the fire burned. Then
I spoke with my tongue:
4 "LORD, make me to know
my end, and what is the
measure of my days, that I
may know how frail I am.
5 Indeed, You have made my
days as handbreadths, and
my age is as nothing before
You; certainly every man at
his best state is but vapor.
6 Surely every man walks
about like a shadow; surely
they busy themselves in
vain; he heaps up riches, and
does not know who will
gather them.
7 "And now, LORD, what do
I wait for? My hope is in
You. 8 Deliver me from all
my transgressions; do not
make me the reproach of the
foolish. 9 I was mute, I did
not open my mouth, because
it was You who did it.
10 Remove Your plague from
me; I am consumed by the
blow of Your hand. 11 When
with rebukes You correct
man for iniquity, You make
his beauty melt away like a
moth; surely every man is
vapor.
12 "Hear my prayer, O
LORD, and give ear to my
cry; do not be silent at my
tears; for I am a stranger with
You, a sojourner, as all my
fathers were. 13 remove Your
gaze from me, that I may
regain strength, before I go
away and am no more."
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Some see a parallel between the content of Psalm 39 and Job 7. In
both cases, we find a righteous man pondering the shortness of life
and the distress endured during that brief time. The Bible is realistic in
recording the ups and down of human experience.
Tuesday
TRAVELING
COMPANION
READ:
Psalm 39
_______________________________________________________________________________________
For I am a stranger
with You, a sojourner,
as all my fathers were.
__Psalm 39:12
________________________________________________________________________________________
I looked up the members of my seminary graduating class recently and discovered that many of my friends are now deceased. It was a sober reminder of the brevity of life. Three score and ten, give or take a few years, and we're gone (Psa. 90:10). Israel's poet was right: We're but strangers here and sojourners (39:12).
The brevity of life makes us think about our "end"__the measure of our days and how fleeting they are (v.4), a feeling that grows more certain as we draw closer to the end of our lives. This world is not our home; we're but strangers and sojourners here.
Yet we are not alone on the journey . We are strangers and sojourners with God (39:12), a thought that makes the journey less troubling, less frightening, less worrisome. We pass through this world and into the next with a loving Father as our constant companion and guide. We're strangers here on earth, but we are never alone on the journey (73:23-24). We have One who says, "I am with you always" (Matt. 28:20).
We may lose sight of father, mother, spouse, and friends, but we always know that God is walking beside us. an old saying puts it like this: "Good company on the road makes the way to seem lighter." __David Roper
```````````````````My times are in my Father's hand;````````````````````
```````````````````How could I wish or ask for more?```````````````````
`````````````````For He who has my pathway planned````````````````````
``````````````Will guide me till my journey's o'er. __Fraser````````````````
_____________________________________________________________________________________
As you travel life's weary road,
let Jesus lift your heavy load.
**************************Today's Bible Reading __ psalm 39************************
1 I said, "I will guard my
ways, lest I sin with my
tongue; I will restrain my
mouth with a muzzle,
while the wicked are before me."
2 I was mute with silence, I
held my peace even from
good; and my sorrow was
stirred up. 3 My heart was hot
within me; while I was
musing, the fire burned. Then
I spoke with my tongue:
4 "LORD, make me to know
my end, and what is the
measure of my days, that I
may know how frail I am.
5 Indeed, You have made my
days as handbreadths, and
my age is as nothing before
You; certainly every man at
his best state is but vapor.
6 Surely every man walks
about like a shadow; surely
they busy themselves in
vain; he heaps up riches, and
does not know who will
gather them.
7 "And now, LORD, what do
I wait for? My hope is in
You. 8 Deliver me from all
my transgressions; do not
make me the reproach of the
foolish. 9 I was mute, I did
not open my mouth, because
it was You who did it.
10 Remove Your plague from
me; I am consumed by the
blow of Your hand. 11 When
with rebukes You correct
man for iniquity, You make
his beauty melt away like a
moth; surely every man is
vapor.
12 "Hear my prayer, O
LORD, and give ear to my
cry; do not be silent at my
tears; for I am a stranger with
You, a sojourner, as all my
fathers were. 13 remove Your
gaze from me, that I may
regain strength, before I go
away and am no more."
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Some see a parallel between the content of Psalm 39 and Job 7. In
both cases, we find a righteous man pondering the shortness of life
and the distress endured during that brief time. The Bible is realistic in
recording the ups and down of human experience.