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Psalm 20! Psalm 20!

Ok, that was ridiculous. I’m just bitter at Bellevue for giving me Church Participant in Bible Drill. If you don’t know what that means I’ll tell you. It pretty much says, “We don’t want to make you feel like an doof for accomplishing nothing at all in Bible Drill so we’ll give you a prize called, ‘Thanks for trying goober, but no luck!’”

ANYWAY, I just wanted to share a verse with you. A dear friend of Les and I’s in Colorado Springs, Sara Johnson, sent us an email this morning; I wanted to turn it to you as well. Go ahead and read Psalm 20…It might take you as long as me so I’ll give you the extra minute that Bible Drill didn’t give me …

I have to ask you in response to what you read - what do you trust in my friend? Do you trust in the things of this world or the things of God? Our small group read last night in Matthew 13, a reference to Isaiah (6, I think). Here’s the paraphrase: some seeds were thrown on the path - they died quickly; some seeds were thrown on the thin soil - they grew with no roots and at the first sign of trouble died; some seeds were thrown among the thorns - they grew and were soon choked, as Jesus explained to the Disciples, by the “cares of this world and deceitfulness of riches”; the other seeds were thrown in a good place and they grew, and not only did they grow but they produced a crop by one hundred fold or sixty fold or thirty fold.

I’m pleased that Jesus chose to explain that to us.

Do you trust in chariots, as verse seven says, or do you trust in that Name? Are we choked by the “cares of this world”? I want to encourage you as well to rejoice in the victories of others, to lift the banner of God in praise when He grants the desires of our hearts.

Love His words today.
By the way, I like you Bible Drill, I just don’t love you.

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