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 now uh we have a couple of bible readings they'll both be up on the screen the first is from Isaiah

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 chapter 55 and then we'll be in Psalm 131 so Isaiah 55 first of all let's hear God's word

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 come all you who are thirsty come to the waters and you who have no money come buy and eat come

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 buy wine and milk without money and without cost why spend money on what is not bread and your labor

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 on what does not satisfy listen listen to me and eat what is good and you will delight in the richest

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 of fear give ear and come to me listen that you may live I will make an everlasting covenant with you

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 my faithful love promised to David see I have made him a witness to the peoples a ruler and

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 commander of the peoples surely you will summon nations you know not and nations you do not know

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 will come running to you because of the Lord your God the Holy One of Israel for he has endowed you

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 with splendor seek the Lord while he may be found call on him while he is near let the wicked forsake

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 their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts let them turn to the Lord and he will have mercy on them

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 and to our God for he will freely pardon for my thoughts are not your thoughts neither are your ways

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 my ways declares the Lord as the heavens are higher than the earth so are my ways higher than your ways

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 and my thoughts than your thoughts as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return to

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 it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish so that it yields seed for the sower and bread

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 for the eater so is my word that goes out from my mouth it will not return to me empty but will

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 accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it you will go out in joy and be led

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 forth in peace the mountains and hills will burst into song before you and all the trees of the field

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 will clap their hands instead of the thorn bush will grow the juniper and instead of briars the myrtle

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 will grow this will be for the Lord's renown for an everlasting sign that will endure forever

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 and then in Psalm 131 one of the the shortest Psalms that we have in the Bible

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 so let's read together from Psalm 131

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 my heart is not proud Lord my eyes are not haughty I do not concern myself with great matters

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 or things too wonderful for me but I have calmed and quietened myself I am like a weaned child with

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 its mother like a weaned child I am content Israel put your hope in the Lord both now and

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 forevermore amen so as I was saying earlier

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 this is a focus on trust that we find in this Psalm this is going to be our last time

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 in the the book of Psalms for the next couple of months in our mornings we're going to look

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 at the heart of Jesus as we find it in John's gospel but I wanted to finish here

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 our study on the Psalms thinking about trust and how essential that is and I deliberately chose this

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 really short Psalm because it has a really powerful image at its center they say a picture is worth a

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 thousand words and so I'm hoping as we think about this picture that we have in verse two of the

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 contented child in its mother's arms that it will open the curtains and let the light of Christian hope

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 and the Christian life shine for us whoever we are that we would recognize that in God we can find

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 contentment as we learn to humbly trust in a wise and a loving father in heaven so it's a small lesson

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 it's a small psalm but it's got this massive truth that if we want to find rest in the storms of life if

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 we want to find shelter then we can do that in the arms of our God who made us and who wants to be with us

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 and for us it seems important for the times in which we live I imagine all of us have found ourselves

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 trying to anticipate what the next set of regulations and restrictions might be speculating

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 when they might come to an end figuring out how our plans need to reorganize because of the changes that

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 come in many of us are facing uncertainty some that's because of ongoing health concerns

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 for many there's the new concern to do with health and employment for our young people and students

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 the concern is about education for all of us family friendships relationships in the short to medium term

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 what's it going to look like and the impact of all of that is that anxiety and fear and frustration

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 can dominate our minds and dominate our horizons we can find all our energy going into figuring out

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 what are the rules and why are they there and when will it come to an end but here we have an

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 invitation and my prayer is that our experience will be that of David that in suffering and worry and

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 discontent we would lean into God our father and that we would find rest from and with him that we would

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 go to him that we might be wrapped in his loving everlasting arms

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 Jesus was asked on a number of occasions who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven that kind of

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 discussion would come up and Psalm 131 anticipates the answer that he gave greatness in the kingdom looks

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 like becoming as a little child learning to trust learning to depend on our father in heaven

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 so let's explore this psalm of David together and we'll begin in verse 2 with this picture of

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 contentment where David says I have calmed and quietened myself I am like a weaned child with its

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 mother like a weaned child I am content it's a lovely family image that God gives to us perhaps if we're

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 parents here we can remember those moments we can look back and think about those times where

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 our children were happy to find themselves in our arms wanting nothing other than to just rest there for a

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 while there's a wonderful moment to enjoy maybe we remember those feelings as children and here is

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 where David goes as he wants to express his trust he says I'm like a small child nestling in its mother's

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 arms here is David coming to enjoy the comfort and rest of his father's love and God puts it this way in

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 Isaiah 66 God says to his people as a mother comforts her child so I will comfort you so God in kindness

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 gives us this motherly image to speak of his tender love and care and in verse 2 we have a picture of

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 contentment this is a weaned child not a little baby who sometimes might be content in our mother's arms

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 other times fussing and squawking for food here is a here is a toddler a small child simply content to be

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 simply content to rest in the closeness and the love of their mother's arms

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 it's an invitation for us notice that David is making an active choice in all of this

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 in verse 1 he said my heart is not proud I do not concern myself with great matters but I have calmed

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 and quietened myself he's making an active choice to find contentment in God he's looking to still the

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 storm that he feels in his heart and his mind he's looking to quieten that urge to frantic fixing or

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 restless pursuit that perhaps we can all feel even although he is the king of Israel he's not straining

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 under the illusion that I should be able to figure out all life's conundrums that I can manage these

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 crises by myself rather he is humbling himself to trust in God his father and again I think this is a

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 really gracious invitation for us if your mind is like mine probably you find itself from day to day

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 going in a thousand different directions all at once and that can be exhausting but here is a call

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 from God to lean into him as father and to rest if you find your energy is getting taken up by fear

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 and frustration if your faith feels weak and you feel discouraged here is an invitation

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 come to this God or return to this God as your place of refuge

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 I read an article yesterday entitled when God says no to earnest prayers

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 and the author was exploring the difficulties that come when you pray sincerely and answers don't come

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 and he was looking to the Bible to to find answers for how do we respond as Christians in those moments and

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 he directed in one of his points readers to Psalm 131 to say that in all circumstances we have this

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 invitation to trust in God's wisdom when we don't know why answers don't come when we don't know why

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 circumstances don't change like David we have to recognize there's a point where there are things

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 that are too wonderful for us to recognize that God's ways are not our ways and to rest in that

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 knowing that we can trust our good father in heaven and to trust in his wisdom David is able to rest

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 contented because he knows his God and he knows God's character I wonder if we've come to discover God

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 as father in that way so that we too can rest content because we know we have a father in heaven we know

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 his character we know that he is for us so that he would be the one safe place the refuge the fortress

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 that we would run to this is an invitation that we all need to hear it's an invitation to enjoy God's love

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 and to know that love in our experience to make that choice to move towards this God who loves us

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 I was thinking about the first of the Harry Potter books and a little conversation towards the end

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 where Dumbledore is talking to Harry about his scar and about his mother and Dumbledore said this

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 to him he said your mother died to save you if there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand it is love

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 and then this love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark to have been loved so deeply

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 will give us some protection forever love as powerful as your mother's well at the heart of the Bible

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 is the powerful love of God the father a love so great that he would send his one and only son

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 so that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life the mark of our father's powerful love

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 we see at the cross where Jesus the one and only son of his father is given in our place for our sins

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 so that we by faith might become sons and daughters

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 that to trust in Jesus according to the language of first Peter is to be shielded

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 by God's powerful love now and until final salvation when Jesus returns

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 we can rest content when we know the love of our father

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 let the cross show us and teach us how deep the father's love for us is

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 and that we would find contentment and trust in him

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 from there I want us to go back to verse one and to recognize

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 that to have that kind of contentment we need humility before God

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 I don't know if all schools are the same but the school that our boys go to is very big on

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 trying to help children understand their emotions they seem to get a lot of classes on emotions

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 and we know we understand emotions we understand opposites happy and sad or opposites love and hate

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 or opposite verse one's really interesting because David is appreciating and helping us to see that the

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 opposite of anxiety the anxiety that perhaps we feel isn't always calmness and peace the answer to

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 anxiety in verse one is humility and especially humility before God what kind of anxiety does David have in view

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 in verse one what is it that he is trying to rid himself of verse one my heart is not proud Lord

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 my eyes are not haughty I do not concern myself with great matters or things too wonderful for me

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 he understands there is an anxiety that we can feel when we are overreaching overstepping our limits when our desires are too great

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 so he's trying to put those to one side a desire for greatness compared to others

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 and a failure to accept our limitations before God

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 he's come to understand that that path that way of living leads to restlessness and frustration and discontent

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 and so the answer the antidote to that then is humility

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 and so he's showing us a pattern of humility against in the first place

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 the temptation of pride my heart is not proud Lord my eyes are not haughty

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 that temptation to have an overinflated view of ourselves

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 that would then at the same time undervalue others

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 it's a warning against that drive to be great and to ambition

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 that is severed from a concern for God's glory and a desire to serve others

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 it's an understanding that pride feeds on comparison and competition

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 and that is not the pathway to peace and contentment

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 where we're not just happy to be good we have to be better than

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 the other person we're not content with being smart we need to be smarter than someone else

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 constantly fighting for recognition and approval will not lead to contentment

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 rather it will make frustration inevitable

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 because it's very unlikely we're ever going to reach that point where

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 we've we can say I have enough or I truly am at the top of the game and there's nobody above me

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 even David is king he has to make that deliberate choice to fight against pride so he can be content

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 how does our image of the content child in verse 2 help us in that battle that we face against pride and competition

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 we're here as Christians

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 those who are in Jesus Christ

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 we have that wonderful truth

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 that in Jesus we have full approval

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 from our father in heaven when we are in him

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 that our position

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 is secure

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 as loved and adopted

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 children of God

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 our inheritance

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 is certain

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 eternal life in glory

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 ruling in the new heavens

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 and the new earth

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 if we live for the approval of the one

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 who matters for God almighty

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 then we have the freedom to be humble

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 we can be overlooked

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 and not be crushed by that

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 we can miss out on opportunities

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 and not feel as if the world has come to an end

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 we can be free to suffer

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 and knowing that we are loved

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 we are kept

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 and we have a glorious future

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 if we learn the contentment of resting

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 in the loving arms

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 of our father

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 the second part of verse 1

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 moves from pride

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 to presumption

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 when David says

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 I do not concern myself

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 with great matters

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 or things too wonderful for me

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 he's saying again

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 he's put to one side

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 an overestimating of himself

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 and his own abilities

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 in particular

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 he's determined not to forget

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 his limits

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 compared to God

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 David is

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 content to say

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 even although I am the king

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 I cannot understand

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 and I cannot manage

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 many of the great things

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 there is a set of wisdom

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 that belongs to God alone

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 and I'm going to trust him

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 and I'm going to trust his will

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 I'm going to trust his character

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 and I'm going to rest

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 rather than trying to become God-like

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 and reach for

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 those kind of wisdoms

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 the Bible teaches that

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 distinction really clearly for us

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 God is the creator

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 and we are created

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 God is all-knowing

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 and all-powerful

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 he is all-wise

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 he knows the past

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 the present and the future

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 and we do not

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 we are limited

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 compared to God

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 and if we try and break free

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 of our limits

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 again we will find ourselves

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 frustrated

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 we will find ourselves

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 anxious

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 because we are trying to

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 make decisions

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 and to control things

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 that are ultimately

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 outwith our control

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 what does that look like?

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 it might look like

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 sleepless nights

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 and agonizing

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 over the future

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 because we want to know

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 what's God's will

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 why this

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 why me

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 what can I do

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 to change things

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 and sometimes

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 we need to learn

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 to rest

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 and wait

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 on God

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 David has come

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 to discover

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 that freedom

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 of living

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 within those limits

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 that God has set

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 resting and knowing

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 I can't control everything

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 I can't fix everything

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 I can't understand everything

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 not now

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 and not in my future

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 so if you are

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 anxious today

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 frustrated

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 or fearful today

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 let Psalm 131

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 be God's gift

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 to each of us

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 so that in humility

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 we would be ready

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 to accept our limits

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 and trust our unlimited God

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 and that at the same time

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 we would take our cares

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 to our Father in Heaven

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 knowing that He loves us

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 and that He cares for us

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 one last thing to notice

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 verse 3

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 as David draws the Psalm

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 to a close

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 and it's this

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 that trust

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 is the basic

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 posture

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 of faith

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 so David's given us

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 this wonderful testimony

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 as the king

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 you know

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 before God

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 I want to be

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 like a child

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 I want to live

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 with humble trust

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 and then

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 he calls on

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 the worshipping people

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 of God

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 to learn that lesson

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 with Him

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 as he says

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 in verse 3

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 Israel

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 put your hope

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 in the Lord

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 both now

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 and forever

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 more

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 he has found

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 security

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 he has found

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 a solid basis

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 for his hope

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 and he wants

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 to pass that on

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 God is his centre

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 of gravity

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 God is the sun

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 around which

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 his life orbits

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 not himself

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 as the king

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 and he's found

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 that to be a place

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 of peace

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 and a place

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 of rest

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 he's been weaned

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 off

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 false ambitions

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 he's been weaned

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 off misplacing

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 his desires

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 he's been weaned

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 off an anxiety

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 from fighting

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 against those

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 proper limits

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 and he's found

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 rest

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 and so he calls

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 the church

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 to trust

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 as the king

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 he says

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 trust in the much

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 greater than me

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 trust in the Lord

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 God

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 now and evermore

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 it's a wonderful

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 testimony

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 from King David

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 and it's a testimony

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 echoed

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 perfectly

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 by King

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 Jesus

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 while David's

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 heart at times

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 would waver

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 Jesus

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 never did

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 how do we see

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 the humility

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 of King

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 Jesus

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 we see it

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 in his

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 willingness

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 to leave

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 the glory

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 of heaven

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 to become

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 one of us

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 in order

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 that he might

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 be the promised

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 suffering

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 servant

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 he lived

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 a humble

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 life

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 as the man

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 of sorrows

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 and died

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 in our place

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 for our sins

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 how do we see

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 the contentment

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 of Jesus

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 with his

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 father

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 in heaven

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 we hear him

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 so often

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 talking about

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 his delight

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 in doing

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 his father's

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 will

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 he didn't

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 ever want

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 to say

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 or do

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 anything

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 outside

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 of his

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 father's

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 will

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 at all

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 points

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 in his

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 life

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 he was

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 fully

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 obedient

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 and had

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 joy

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 in that

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 even

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 when it

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 took him

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 to the cross

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 and his

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 trust

00:23:44.500 --> 00:23:45.079
 again

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 was

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 absolute

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 so that

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 even

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 as he

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 was

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 dying

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 having

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 completed

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 his

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 mission

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 of coming

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 to be

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 the once

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 for all

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 sacrifice

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 for sinners

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 he prayed

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 to his

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 father

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 into your

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 hands

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 I commit

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 my spirit

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 trust

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 from first

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 to last

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 the great

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 king

00:24:08.779 --> 00:24:09.779
 who gives

00:24:09.779 --> 00:24:10.640
 that testimony

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 and who

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 calls us

00:24:11.860 --> 00:24:12.360
 to follow

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 in his

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 path

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 so as we

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 leave this

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 psalm

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 and indeed

00:24:17.580 --> 00:24:18.039
 as we leave

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 the book

00:24:18.320 --> 00:24:19.019
 of psalms

00:24:19.019 --> 00:24:20.019
 for a time

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 and there

00:24:20.259 --> 00:24:20.560
 are so

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 many trust

00:24:21.220 --> 00:24:21.840
 psalms

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 to explore

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 are we

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 trusting

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 God

00:24:25.840 --> 00:24:26.920
 as our

00:24:26.920 --> 00:24:27.360
 father

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 have we

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 come to

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 know

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 and are we

00:24:30.160 --> 00:24:30.799
 looking to

00:24:30.799 --> 00:24:31.580
 experience

00:24:31.580 --> 00:24:32.799
 that love

00:24:32.799 --> 00:24:33.340
 in an

00:24:33.340 --> 00:24:33.940
 ongoing

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 way

00:24:34.519 --> 00:24:35.080
 are we

00:24:35.080 --> 00:24:35.420
 making

00:24:35.420 --> 00:24:36.240
 that active

00:24:36.240 --> 00:24:36.779
 choice

00:24:36.779 --> 00:24:37.240
 and all

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 the busyness

00:24:38.100 --> 00:24:38.440
 and all

00:24:38.440 --> 00:24:38.860
 the fear

00:24:38.860 --> 00:24:39.100
 and all

00:24:39.100 --> 00:24:39.500
 the stuff

00:24:39.500 --> 00:24:39.880
 buzzing

00:24:39.880 --> 00:24:40.340
 around in

00:24:40.340 --> 00:24:40.779
 our head

00:24:40.779 --> 00:24:41.700
 to come

00:24:41.700 --> 00:24:42.539
 and to

00:24:42.539 --> 00:24:42.960
 quiet

00:24:42.960 --> 00:24:43.620
 ourselves

00:24:43.620 --> 00:24:45.180
 before him

00:24:45.180 --> 00:24:46.700
 do we

00:24:46.700 --> 00:24:47.279
 hear his

00:24:47.279 --> 00:24:48.000
 call to

00:24:48.000 --> 00:24:48.480
 come

00:24:48.480 --> 00:24:49.759
 and rest

00:24:49.759 --> 00:24:51.039
 to come

00:24:51.039 --> 00:24:51.420
 with that

00:24:51.420 --> 00:24:52.180
 childlike

00:24:52.180 --> 00:24:52.700
 faith

00:24:52.700 --> 00:24:54.340
 to enjoy

00:24:54.340 --> 00:24:55.180
 him