Psalm 127
Unless the Lord builds the house,
They labor in vain who build it;
Unless the Lord guards the city,
The watchman stays awake in vain.
Kent Bottenfield, a former pro baseball picture came and played and sang music Sunday that had us reaching for God....He can't read music, not one note. Really. Guss what, he doesn't have to because God is faithful.
The same day Craig Brighton's Habitat house for Patrice and Cameron came toward a close, but inside this story were so many others, a house full of people affected by Craigs faithfulness, and God's faithfulness to him. JD for example just recommitted his wedding vows after 40 years, and a few months on the habitat job. He brought his friend Patrick to the job, a man who is ready to leave the restaurant business to do something that "matters". Cameron, a young boy who should have died 3 years ago due to inoperable brain cancer.....now in a race with time to find God. He has had help from Matt and Kristen, and Craig at camp. Did Craig have this all worked out, nope, he doesn't have to....
The song below is the one that Kent always plays wherever he goes....It brings him to Psalm 61 "Take refuge in the shadow of your wing". I heard that twice Sunday.
Great is thy faithfulness
there is no shadow of turning with thee;
thou changest not, thy compassions, they fail not;
as thou hast been thou forever will be.
Refrain:
Great is thy faithfulness! Great is thy faithfulness!
Morning by morning new mercies I see;
all I have needed thy hand hath provided;
great is thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me!
Summer and winter and springtime and harvest,
sun, moon and stars in their courses above
join with all nature in manifold witness
to thy great faithfulness, mercy and love. Refrain
Pardon for sin and a peace that endureth
thy own dear presence to cheer and to guide;
strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow,
blessings all mine, with ten thousand beside! Refrain
The Abyss, the void, that chasm? "The Lord is rich to all who call on Him."
ReplyDeleteRomans 10:6–13 (NKJV)
6 But the righteousness of faith speaks in this way, “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’” (that is, to bring Christ down from above) 7 or, “ ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’ ” (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). 8 But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith which we preach): 9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 11 For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.” 12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him. 13 For “whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved.”