Wednesday, October
24, 2012, Year B
Psalms 38,
119:25-48; Song of Songs 8:5-14; Revelation 8:1-13; Luke 10:17-24
Did anyone ever
tell you if you just prayed hard enough you would be healed? Did someone whisper
you must not have enough faith? Did your friends remind you how you should just
get over yourself? Did a doctor ever suggest it was all in your head? Did you
ever think God must be extraordinarily angry with you? Did you ever meet a “dark
night of the soul?”
Listen and watch. Then
start the video again, and listen with your eyes closed. Then listen one more
time and read the following as you listen:
25-32
I’m feeling terrible—I couldn’t feel
worse!
Get me on my feet again. You promised, remember?
When I told my story, you responded;
train me well in your deep wisdom.
Help me understand these things inside and out so I can ponder your miracle-wonders.
My sad life’s dilapidated, a falling-down barn;
build me up again by your Word.
Barricade the road that goes Nowhere;
grace me with your clear revelation.
I choose the true road to Somewhere,
I post your road signs at every curve and corner.
I grasp and cling to whatever you tell me;
God, don’t let me down!
I’ll run the course you lay out for me
if you’ll just show me how.
Get me on my feet again. You promised, remember?
When I told my story, you responded;
train me well in your deep wisdom.
Help me understand these things inside and out so I can ponder your miracle-wonders.
My sad life’s dilapidated, a falling-down barn;
build me up again by your Word.
Barricade the road that goes Nowhere;
grace me with your clear revelation.
I choose the true road to Somewhere,
I post your road signs at every curve and corner.
I grasp and cling to whatever you tell me;
God, don’t let me down!
I’ll run the course you lay out for me
if you’ll just show me how.
33-40
God, teach me lessons for living
so I can stay the course.
Give me insight so I can do what you tell me—
my whole life one long, obedient response.
Guide me down the road of your commandments;
I love traveling this freeway!
Give me a bent for your words of wisdom,
and not for piling up loot.
Divert my eyes from toys and trinkets,
invigorate me on the pilgrim way.
Affirm your promises to me—
promises made to all who fear you.
Deflect the harsh words of my critics—
but what you say is always so good.
See how hungry I am for your counsel;
preserve my life through your righteous ways!
so I can stay the course.
Give me insight so I can do what you tell me—
my whole life one long, obedient response.
Guide me down the road of your commandments;
I love traveling this freeway!
Give me a bent for your words of wisdom,
and not for piling up loot.
Divert my eyes from toys and trinkets,
invigorate me on the pilgrim way.
Affirm your promises to me—
promises made to all who fear you.
Deflect the harsh words of my critics—
but what you say is always so good.
See how hungry I am for your counsel;
preserve my life through your righteous ways!
41-48
Let your love, God, shape my life
with salvation, exactly as you promised;
Then I’ll be able to stand up to mockery
because I trusted your Word.
Don’t ever deprive me of truth, not ever—
your commandments are what I depend on.
Oh, I’ll guard with my life what you’ve revealed to me,
guard it now, guard it ever;
And I’ll stride freely through wide open spaces
as I look for your truth and your wisdom;
Then I’ll tell the world what I find,
speak out boldly in public, unembarrassed.
I cherish your commandments—oh, how I love them!—
relishing every fragment of your counsel.
with salvation, exactly as you promised;
Then I’ll be able to stand up to mockery
because I trusted your Word.
Don’t ever deprive me of truth, not ever—
your commandments are what I depend on.
Oh, I’ll guard with my life what you’ve revealed to me,
guard it now, guard it ever;
And I’ll stride freely through wide open spaces
as I look for your truth and your wisdom;
Then I’ll tell the world what I find,
speak out boldly in public, unembarrassed.
I cherish your commandments—oh, how I love them!—
relishing every fragment of your counsel.
Psalm 119:25-48 (MSG)
Then another Angel,
carrying a gold censer, came and stood at the Altar. He was given a great
quantity of incense so that he could offer up the prayers of all the holy
people of God on the Golden Altar before the Throne. Smoke billowed up from the
incense-laced prayers of the holy ones, rose before God from the hand of the
Angel.
Revelation 8:3-4
(NIV)
21 At
that very moment, Jesus overflowed with joy from the Holy Spirit and said, “I praise
you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you’ve hidden these things from
the wise and intelligent and shown them to babies. Indeed, Father, this brings
you happiness. 22 My Father has handed all things over to me. No one knows who the Son
is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom
the Son wants to reveal him.” 23 Turning to the disciples, he said privately, “Happy are the eyes that see what you see. 24 I assure
you that many prophets and kings wanted to see what you see and hear what you hear,
but they didn’t.” Luke 10:21-24 (CEB)
Lord, let me walk
through the dark night of the soul, knowing the Light of the World, He who
flung the stars into space, who made the lesser light of the moon, will guide
me through the shadows and the dark places. I praise you that you have kept my
heart safe and quiet. Keep me malleable so I, like you, may be filled with love and the
Holy Spirit and sing your praise. So be it. Amen.
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