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November 10
Sunday



REMEMBERING
OUR FATHER'S
WORDS

READ:
Psalm 119:89-93
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I will never forget Your
precepts, for by them
You have given me life.
__Psalm 119:93
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Jim Davidson was climbing down Mount Rainier when he fell through a snow bridge and into a crevasse (a pitch-black, ice-walled crack in a glacier). As Jim stood bloodied and bruised in that dark ice cave, he reflected on his childhood and recalled how his father had repeatedly reminded him that he could accomplish great things if he pressed through adversity. Those words helped to sustain Jim as he spent the next 5 hours climbing out of that dark ice cave to safety with very little gear and under extremely difficult circumstances.

The psalmist seemed to climb out of his own crevasse of affliction and pain by recalling his heavenly Father's words. He admitted that if God and His Word had not sustained him with joy, he would have died in his misery (Ps. 119:92). He expressed full confidence in the Lord's eternal Word (v.89) and in the faithfulness of His character (v.90). As a result of God's faithfulness, the psalmist made a commitment never to forget God's words to him because they had a central part in rescuing his life and bringing him strength.

In our darkest caves and moments of affliction, our souls can be revived by our Father in heaven when we recall and fill our minds with his encouraging words. __Marvin Williams

```````````````````````````Thinking it over

````````````What crevasse of discouragement are you currently in?```````````
```````````How can you use this time as an occasion to revive your```````````
````````````soul by filling your mind and heart with God's Word?`````````````
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Remembering God's words revives our soul.

************************Today's Bible Reading __ Psalm 119:89-93******************

89 Forever, O LORD, Your
Word is setled in heaven.

90 Your faithfulness endures
to all generations; You
established the earth, and it
abides. 91 They continue
this day according to Your
ordinances, for all are Your
servants. 92 Unless Your law
had been my delight, I
would then have perished
in my affliction. 93 I will
never forget Your precepts,
for by them You have given
me life.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Psalm 119 celebrates the law of the Lord. All of the words used to
describe the law__precepts, statutes, commands, and decrees__
refer to what God has revealed to us about how we are to live.
After our first parents sinned and God began His program of
redemption, He chose the people of Israel as His messengers. God
gave them the law to direct their interactions with one another and
with Him. His commands were not random and meaningless. They
were given so that by them we can recapture as closely as possible
the original meaning of being truly human__living a life that brings
honor and glory to Him and benefits ourselves, others, and the rest
of creation.