I Love the Providence of God

July 26, 2006

Well, it seems as though my blogomaniac friend has gone MIA as he visits the in-laws in PA, so I guess I will just have to pick up the slack here. 

Yesterday I posted Psalm 143 and felt like I had my text for Sunday night, but since then I just haven’t felt a peace about that passage.  It is a great text and there is much that I could say about it, but for some reason I felt like I didn’t yet have the one He wanted for me.  So here I am on Wednesday morning without a text for Sunday, and this is very unlike me. 

I am starting now (I think) to see what God is doing.  Last night Michelle and I had a conversation about her family, and how her relationship with them has gone downhill quite a bit since she came to Christ a few years ago.  It was causing her a great deal of pain last night, because of something that I think it unnecessary to share in this public forum.  We talked some and I believe she was feeling a bit better by the end of the night. 

So this morning I am back in the Psalms struggling to find one for Sunday night to talk about the role of prayer in the life of worship.  And I was drawn to Psalm 57, which I had been thinking about quite a bit in May but decided not to preach on when I put together my schedule for the summer series on the Psalms.  As I read it again, I saw a few things that captured what I am wanting to say about prayer, and was thinking that I might possibly have my text.  As I was researching the Psalm I checked a website called Spurgeon Gems, to see what that great preacher had to say about Psalm 57. 

On the site I found a sermon called Among Lions; you can read it here.  It is based on Psalm 57:4, “My soul is in the midst of lions…”  and Spurgeon’s whole point in the sermon was to provide comfort and advice to those who are surrounded by lions who are hostile to our faith and love for Christ — exactly what Michelle deals with her family.  Having read most of the sermon, I think it will be a great comfort to her.  So I plan to print this sermon out and read it with her, and I never would have come across it had I not felt this uneasiness about my sermon text for Sunday night.  

God indeed moves in a mysterious way, doing ten thousand things that we know nothing about in every one thing that we cannot seem to understand!

Worshiping the Sovereign One with you,

Larry

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