Daily Bread_June 11, 2014

Title: What Should You Do After You Fail?

Text:

Psalm 137:1 (HCSB)
By the rivers of Babylon— there we sat down and wept when we remembered Zion.

Observation:

Why do you weep?  In this Psalm the people wept because of their past. Notice that they didn't weep for their sins; rather, they wept because their sins caught up with them. We need to learn that lesson as we evaluate our lives.

There are times when we don't want to do the hard things. There is a price to pay for avoiding the hard things, and the hard places where doing God's will takes us.

Numbers 32:5 (HCSB)
They said, "If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants as a possession. Don't make us cross the Jordan."

Numbers 32:20-23 (HCSB)
²⁰ Moses replied to them, "If you do this—if you arm yourselves for battle before the Lord, ²¹ and every one of your armed men crosses the Jordan before the Lord until He has driven His enemies from His presence, ²² and the land is subdued before the Lord—afterward you may return and be free from obligation to the Lord and to Israel. And this land will belong to you as a possession before the Lord. ²³ But if you don't do this, you will certainly sin against the Lord; be sure your sin will catch up with you.

When we fail we need to get up, and do the hard things rather than looking for the easy way out. Let's do those things that glorify God. Are you will to cross the Jordon; to go where God sends you?

Can you sing the songs of Zion in the hard places and hard times? They couldn't, but Paul and Silas could sing in prison at midnight.

Psalm 137:4 (HCSB)
How can we sing the Lord's song on foreign soil?

Acts 16:25 (HCSB)
About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.

Prayer:

Father God, Sovereign Lord, help us to lean hard on You, and do the things that will glorify Your name. O for a faith to not lose our song in the hard places. Lord, may we learn to bow low, look up, stand up, and move on.  In the mighty name of Jesus I pray, Amen.

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Matthew 4:4 (HCSB)
⁴ But He answered, "It is written: Man must not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God."

Psalm 2:8 (HCSB)
⁸ Ask of Me, and I will make the nations Your inheritance and the ends of the earth Your possession.

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