Needless to say this season is a different kind of time for my family as we flex under financial and vocational transitions. I noticed yesterday that God has given us a very precious gift in His providential timing. Ellie has started pre-school and attends five days a week as a perk of my wife’s employment at the school. Her class is memorizing Psalm 100. The teacher asked us to go over it at home periodically to help the children memorize it, so we adopted the passage as a family memory verse and repeat it together multiple times a day. Even in my own free time I find myself rehearsing it in my mind. Here’s what is says: (I’ll type it from memory so you can check my progress.)
Psalm 100 (KJV)
“Make a joyful noise unto the Lord; all ye lands.
Serve the Lord with gladness, come before His presence with singing.
Know ye that the Lord, He is God. It is He that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are His people and the sheep of His pasture.
Enter into His gates with thanksgiving and into His courts with praise. Be thankful unto Him and bless His name.
For the Lord is good, His mercy is everlasting, and his truth endureth to all generations.”
Can I just say that there are a lot of issues that could seem really big right now, but instead I’m focused on the biggest thing that matters; my relationship with God. Do you know why? It is because He has given me this truth.
We can not have a better plan for our lives than God’s. Why? Because it is He that hath made us and not we ourselves.
We are not alone. Why? Because we are His people and the sheep of His pasture.
God deserves my honor and attention, to be extolled and exalted, and to receive thanksgiving and praise. Why? Because the Lord is good. His mercy is everlasting. And His truth endureth to all generations.
Mmmm…Sometimes I just wanna PREACH.
--Ben
PS. The best part of memorizing is seeing the look on Ellie’s face when he has caught me messing up. She knows it the best out of all of us. I’m very proud of her. When you see her ask her to tell you Psalm 100.
2 comments:
I've been thinking about it over and over since I heard Ellie say it on Sunday. It really flies in the face of the "Self-made man" theory that is so popular in our society today. Every good gift (in other words, everything I've got in life) comes from the Father.
Ariel, thanks for commenting. I think you're right, and that it has farther reaching implications in the fact that God appoints people to leadership. Further scripture is filled with people God chose to use in spite of their apparent weakness or disqualification. But it is He that hath made us and not we ourselves.
--Ben
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