Category: Trusting God
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Complaining to God – Psalm 44
During the birth of our fourth child, when the contractions were becoming too difficult to handle gracefully, I decided to complain. I don’t like letting my tongue get out of control so in the agonizing peak of a contraction I ground my teeth and clipped with the strongest language I could muster, “I. don’t. like.…
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God is the Boss – Psalm 33
One thing I love about this mini Bible study is discovering how the scriptures speak so clearly for themselves. I need merely highlight what I see, and understanding comes. Psalm 33 reminds me that God is God. “The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; he frustrates the plans of the peoples. The counsel of…
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He Made it and it’s all His – Psalm 24
“The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it …” (Psalm 24:1 NIV). What a powerful statement. The musicians and singers of this psalm-song had to have jumped into this rousing declaration, punching it from the start. I can imagine clapping and dancing, because (as I would…
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When Trouble Comes – Psalm 9
I’ve never known how it feels to be one of our foster children, heartbroken because of separation from their birth families and living with people who don’t feel their brokenness the way they do. But right now, in the struggles I’m dealing with today, I need a place of refuge. I need a safe place to hide. I need to be…
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Dad Can Get Mad – Psalm 2
Psalms chapter two has been difficult for me to approach today. If I only look at the verses that talk about God being angry, scoffing, rebuking and mocking, I’d seriously squirm. Not because I don’t understand or like them, but because it’s hard to explain their value to people who don’t have healthy, godly family relationships. It’s OK for God to be…
