Listen to Pastor Nick read the Firestarter and the Psalm.

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Some traditions call today “Spy Wednesday,” after the plot of Judas to betray Jesus. See in your minds eye the Lord praying this psalm, finding comfort in the prayer of King David. Today we are suspended between Jesus the King and his triumphal entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, and the King on the cross, two days from now.

Imagining the trials of David, the psalm sings of the Lord’s protection when David is overwhelmed. Can you find the four metaphors that weave through this psalm? As you jot them down, begin to relate to them in your spirit. What do you find in your life that links these images with David and Jesus?

The Spirit of Jesus prays this psalm. Greater than the impact of a spy’s eyes upon you, is the loving, knowing, and protective gaze of the Lord upon your life. God is all-powerful in your circumstances. All that is apparently death-bound in you can move toward life, if you yield to the Lord.

Psalm 61

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Example: Lead me to the higher rock. v. 2

We continue the Psalms in numerical order.

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Listen to Pastor Nick read the Firestarter and Job 40:3-14.

God responds to Job in a manner very different from the “friends” of Job. They are into debate, to set the mind and mouth going in the search to solve the mystery of evil. God’s tactic is to silence Job’s tongue so that he can peer through the lens of God’s eyes and see God’s world.

The Lord presents Job with some large animals of the wild. God invites him to enter their world and to exit Job’s limited one. The secret is to be released from the obsession of his own thoughts, to place himself again into the mystery of the universe.

When you find that you are being obsessed with problems, look out the “window” of your world and look at the Lord’s. Get involved in something that is fun for you, so that in the joy of pure living, you give God glory.

God’s wisdom and power are beyond our capacity to understand. In God’s own time, the scales of justice will be balanced.

Job 40

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Example: Laying my hand on my mouth v. 4

Tuesdays are dedicated to the Old Testament books of history
and the Hebrew “Writings.”
In the Season of Lent this year we read Job 15-21; 39-40

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Listen to Pastor Nick read the Firestarter and Jeremiah 33:14-16.

Can you imagine the sun no longer rising, or the moon changing its faithful rotation about the earth each month? So unchanging is God’s Covenant with us. However, there is one condition—obedience. Slaves must be set free. How can anyone be free while controlling the lives of others through slavery?

There is a marked change in the atmosphere of this section of Jeremiah. Greater than the punishment of exile is God’s desire to restore the people to their land. There is a sense of “hoping against hope” that Jeremiah is holding out to you. God is faithful, unchanging as the sun and the moon.

Are you unchanging toward God in your response? Are you letting go of the need to control others, which in our day, is a brand of slavery? As you read about the Rechabites, ask yourself, “Is there something specific that the Lord is asking of me?”

Read quietly, with joy. God will do wonderful things with your life, if you will let God do it.

Jeremiah 33—35

Mondays are dedicated to the reading of the Hebrew Prophets.
In the Season of Lent this year we read Jeremiah 18 to 35.

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Example: Your steadfast love forever v. 11

For all the Firestarters I recommend the ebook.  You will have the entire program of well over a thousand of these introductions with you on your phone or tablet. Check the menu options at the site for more information.