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[cimi]

September 5
Wednesday


GETTING
THROUGH

READ:
Psalm 46
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I will hear what God
the LORD will speak, for
He will speak peace to
His people and to His
saints. __Psalm 85:8
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Gone are the days when a real person greets you on the other end of a phone call. It seems as though whenever we try to "reach out and touch someone," we are greeted with a computerized voice.

I'm glad this isn't true of our Father in heaven. He is always there. No voice-mail boxes, no "press 2 for more grace" and no "call waiting" interruptions. Thankfully, "Call to Me, and I will answewr you" (Jer. 33:3) has not been replaced by, "All lines are now busy. Your call is important to Me. Please stay on the line."

Yet I wonder what kind of access He has to us?

Communication with God is a two-way street. He speaks to us through His Word when we come attentively before Him in prayer and through the clear voice of the indwelling Spirit. He paid a great price to keep the lines open so that we can experience the joy of being still long enough to know that He is God (Ps. 46:10). As my grandmother's favorite hymn "In the Garden" says:

~~~~~~~~~~~And He walks with me, and He talks with me,~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~And He tells me I am His own;~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~And the joy we share as we tarry there,~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~None other has ever known. __ Miles~~~~~~~~~~

The joy of hearing His voice is a call you don't want to miss!
__Joe Stowell
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Is God getting through to you?

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**************Today's Bible Reading __ Psalm 46*****************

1 God is our refuge and
strength, a very present help
in trouble. 2 Therefore we
will not fear, even though
the earth be removed, and
though the mountains be
carried into the midst of the
sea; 3 though its waters roar
and be troubled, though the
mountains shake with its
swelling.

4 There is a river whose
streams shall make glad
the city of God, the holy
place of the tabernacle of
the Most High. 5 God is in
the midst of her, she shall
not be moved; God shall
help her, just at the break of
dawn. 6 The nations raged,
the kingdoms were moved;
He uttered His voice, the
earth melted.

7 The LORD of hosts is
with us; the God of Jacob is
our refuge.

8 Come, behold the works
of the LORD, who has made
desolations in the earth; He
breaks the bow and cuts the
spear in two; He burns the
chariot in the fire.

10 Be still, and know that
I am God; I will be exalted
among the nations, I will be
exalted in the earth!

11 The LORD of hosts is
with us; the God of Jacob is
our refuge.

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Bible commentator John Gill wrote of Psalm 46: "Some think this
psalm was occasioned by the victories which David obtained over
the Ammonites and Moabites, and other neighboring countries; and
others are of opinion that it was penned on account of the siege of
Jerusalem by Sennacherib, in the times of Hezekiah: but it...is
applicable to any time of confusion and distress the nations of the
world may be in through any kind of calamity, when those that trust
in the Lord have no reason in the least to be afraid." __WEC

[Mackenaw]

Psalm 46 sounds very much like that of the book of Revelation and Daniel and others -- the accounts of what is to come in The End Times.