Free & Fit - Falling in Love with the Psalms - Tuesday & Wednesday Psalm 131 & 132
Falling in Love with the Psalms
Tuesday & Wednesday Psalm 131 & 132
Memory Verse
“Instead, I have calmed and quieted myself, like a weaned child who no longer cries for its mother’s milk. Yes, like a weaned child is my soul within me.”
Psalms 131:2 NLT
Psalm 131 in Full
Memory Verse 2
“May your priests be clothed in godliness; may your loyal servants sing for joy.”
Psalms 132:9 NLT
Psalm 132 in full:
Reflection Spiritual Worship - Come Holy Spirit
The concept and perception of God being absent from us is not inconceivable. In John 16:7 Jesus tells us “I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.”
Here Jesus informs us of his earthly departure, but this does not mean that he will be completely absent from us. Instead he tells us that the Helper will come. The Holy Spirit is that help. The third part of the Trinity.
As we see the despair and unrest in the Middle East we must cry out to God for help. To seek his face and to always be seeking Him first.
“O Israel, put your hope in the Lord— now and always.”
Psalms 131:3 NLT
As we have been praying the Paraclete, which goes before us, behind us and with us has been hovering over us similar to when the Holy Spirit hovered over the water in the creation story. The Holy Spirit is always with us, alive in us and can help us through our days, lives and our darkest or toughest times.
The need for peace, ceasefire and rapid response in the Middle East is different to the need here in the Carolinas for life and identifying bodies from the hurricane. Yet, the emergency services, the need for food and water and for the Church to respond is real.
“For the Lord has chosen Jerusalem; he has desired it for his home.”
Psalms 132:13 NLT
One of the oldest prayers in the Church is the call for the presence of the Holy Spirit; we pray “Come Holy Spirit.” This can be in a time of private intimacy with God or during corporate Worship
These two different settings are important to understand when we pray alone we are going into our room, closing the door and praying to our heavenly Father. We call upon the Holy Spirit to come so that we maybe focused, listening and concentrating all our attention on him. Our heavenly Father.
Through the Holy Spirit, through Jesus interceding on our behalf and our submission and surrender we enter dialogue with our heavenly Father. His still, small quiet voice can only be heard when are in full submission and surrender with the whole Trinitarian God.
Through corporate Worship it is different as we pray amongst believers, non believers, atheists, agnostics and people of different faiths so when we pray Come Holy Spirit we pray for the Holy Spirit to those who may not have received or understood the Holy Spirit. In a time of ministry this is when the Spirit works to lead, guide, correct and instruct us on the way to go. We should pray in the Spirit at all times. Alone or in corporate Worship. The gifts and fruit of the Spirit can then be alive and accessible to us.
Closing Reflection
I cannot tell you
how the light comes.
What I know
is that it is more ancient
than imagining.
That it travels
across an astounding expanse
to reach us.
That it loves
searching out
what is hidden,
what is lost,
what is forgotten
or in peril
or in pain.
That it has a fondness
for the body,
for finding its way
toward flesh,
for tracing the edges
of form,
for shining forth
through the eye,
the hand,
the heart.
I cannot tell you
how the light comes,
but that it does.
That it will.
That it works its way
into the deepest dark
that enfolds you,
though it may seem
long ages in coming
or arrive in a shape
you did not foresee.
And so
may we this day
turn ourselves toward it.
May we lift our faces
to let it find us.
May we bend our bodies
to follow the arc it makes.
May we open
and open more
and open still
to the blessed light
that comes.
—Jan Richardson
“So it is good to wait quietly for salvation from the Lord.”
Lamentations 3:26 NLT
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