Ok, so heres the deal for the morning
1. You pray the Sign of the Cross
2. You offer God your day
This just means that you tell Him everything thats coming up that you know
of, then you say take all that I think, do, and say and I unite it all with
the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass" So this way your small sacrifices are being
united to His all-powerful and saving sacrifice on Calvary.
3. You read the Bible Passage. Then pause for like a minute or two.
4. Ask yourself 2 Questions:
a. What is the keyword or theme of this passage?
b. What does this have to do with me?
Psalm 40: 2-4
He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay,
And He set my feet upon a rock making my footsteps firm.
He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God;
Many will see and fear
And will trust in the LORD.
How blessed is the man who has made the LORD his trust,
And has not turned to the proud, nor to those who lapse into falsehood.
At the end of the day, before you go to bed
Ask yourself 2 Questions:
1. How did God love me today?
2. How did I love God today
What are you thinking?
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This has always been one of my favorite psalms. I'm not quite sure why. I think it's because I so often feel like I'm in the "pit," so it's good to know that God's going to pull me out eventually! :)
This verse is great for so many reasons, one is that U2's song "40" is very much based on Psalm 40.
Also, one of my friends used to work construction, and the best story he tells is the time when he got stuck in mud. It was something that didn't happen all at once, he slowly sank deeper over time, and then he was too embarrassed to ask for help.
Eventually it took a backhoe to drag him out.
Getting stuck in the mud isn't instantaneous, it happens over time. And it's so good when we reach that point when we know that we need help and can't pull ourselves out.
Yeah .. sometimes we need to hit bottom and no longer can breathe ... then we struggle and shout .... getting better at waiting less :) still wait too long .. after the "oh shit" hole happens... sometimes it's like the mud Brian said and I try to walk through it and out until I get stuck more ..... Sometimes it's a hole inside a cave and though we are out of the hole, we still have a journey ... But no matter if I'm in a hole or not -- in a cave or climbing the mountain .... Thanks be to God, He's with me!!!! & "How blessed is the man who has made the LORD his trust."
otherwise I wouldn't make it!
Wow. That was great. I really liked this one.
Kathleen, I totally agree w/ needing to hit rock bottom. Ms. S once said that it was great that God took everything away from her (and he really really did, take everything), because then she had nowhere left to turn, but God. And if things had been all great and happy for me before He showed Himself to me, i wouldn't have had any desire to listen to his call. It was my utter desperation to get out of the pit I was in that i grabbed onto Him w/ my whole life. It was through one of my deepest, most secret hurts that He reached to me. If it weren't for that, it wouldn't have been enough to take my life as He did.
But my favorite part of this passage is, "He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God." Wow... A new song... that's exactly what he does. He takes our old cry and replaces it with a new song. Yes... He has completely, utterly changed my song. I second Kathleen, Thanks be.
So why is it so hard to trust?
I like the idea of the mud pit... that it happens over time and not instantaneously. I've never thought of it like that before. I also like the idea that he lets us fall so that we then turn to him.
The other day, I was walking into church to pray. Usually, when I walk to this particular church, there is a prayer garden that I walk through with big shrubs and bushes that extend over the path a little.
Well, the other day, I noticed that the shrubs and bushes were gone. They used to be as tall as me, and now they'd been pruned and cut down to their stems. I thought that this was a lot like what God does to us sometimes... He allows us to grow big and tall, and then cuts us down the the roots. And not just because he can... the only reason he "prunes" us is so that we can grow again, even stronger and more beautiful than ever.
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