Free & Fit - Summer with the Psalms - Psalm 78 August 18th
Summer with the Psalms
Psalm 78 August 18th
Opening Prayer
Today Lord as we surrender to you help us to see the way you see, help us to hear the way you hear and help us to see each other without seeking to dictate, hurt or influence in ways which our contrary to your Holy Spirit. Bring us light, salvation and safety through your Son Jesus Christ. Amen
“So David shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart; And guided them with his skillful hands.”
Psalms 78:72 AMP
Psalm 78 in full:
Reflection:
In order to establish a strong and pure Christian faith it is important to follow the Spiritual Disciplines that help form our belief in Jesus Christ. Richard Foster states in the Book Celebration of Discipline” that the “Disciplines of Abstinence; (solitude, silence, fasting, frugality, chastity, secrecy, sacrifice) and Disciplines of Engagement (study, worship, celebration, service, prayer, fellowship, confession, submission) are essential practices for every Christian (p. 158, Foster, 1978)”.
Furthermore, in her book “Rugged” Gretchen Ronnevik shares the Spiritual Disciplines of the Spiritually exhausted including the chapters on “God Disciplines Those He Loves, Christ is Always the Way, Dependence not Achievement, Enough, Authority, Privilege and Submission, Freedom through Dependence, Generosity, Lament, Rest and Discipleship (p. Contents, Grettchen, 2021)”. The nucleus of Prayer, Reading the Bible, Worship, Community, Silence (Listening to God), attending Church and developing relationships with fellow believers really strengthens an individual’s faith, but as recognized by Ronnevik and Foster it is essential to find a balance of Prayer and Active formation in our everyday lives.
Therefore, to have an accessible process by which to combine our faith and practice of faith as one (John 17) it helps to inform our Christian practice of Spirituality through witness. One way of this is available to us through the practice of silence is through contemplation. Richard Rohr introduces to us, through Micah 6:8, the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Michael Curry’s Way of Love. Rohr and Friends in their book “Contemplation in Action” invites us to “act justly, love tenderly and to walk humbly with our God” through the practice of Fasting & Studying whilst actively practicing our Christian faith.
Serenity Prayer The Original Full Version:
God, give us grace to accept with serenitythe things that cannot be changed,Courage to change the thingswhich should be changed,and the Wisdom to distinguishthe one from the other.
Living one day at a time,Enjoying one moment at a time,Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace,Taking, as Jesus did,This sinful world as it is,Not as I would have it,Trusting that You will make all things right,If I surrender to Your will,So that I may be reasonably happy in this life,And supremely happy with You forever in the next. In Jesus name. Amen.
Source: Prayer Foundation
“So it is good to wait quietly for salvation from the Lord.”
Lamentations 3:26 NLT
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