Voices Together for Saturday, 14 August 2010
Psalm 17:10-14
They close their hearts to pity; with their mouths they speak arrogantly. They have now surrounded our steps; they set their eyes to cast us to the ground. He is like a lion eager to tear, as a young lion lurking in ambush. Arise, O LORD! Confront him, subdue him! Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword, from men by your hand, O LORD, from men of the world whose portion is in this life. You fill their womb with treasure; they are satisfied with children, and they leave their abundance to their infants.
Those affections, selfish desires, willful disobediences that come between me and You are being moved under the authority of the Holy Spirit, discarded and sent to the middens of sin. You are stripping me of the old man, feeding and growing the new, bringing me into a mature life in the Kingdom of Heaven.
Voices Together is taken from my daily meditations and is shared in the hope that others will be encouraged to use the Psalms as a basis for their own prayers, It is available in other formats including a daily e-mail, as a weekly bulletin insert for churches and for use in prison ministry, and published as an annual devotional.
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