Journal for Christ: Lift…trust…Rest…Wait…Receive!

March 2, 2016

Worship: Here’s my heart Lord as sung by Lauren Daigle

Here's my heart Lord
Here's my heart Lord
Here's my heart Lord
Speak what is true

'Cause I am found, I am Yours
I am loved, I'm made pure
I have life, I can breathe
I am healed, I am free

'Cause You are strong, You are sure

You are life, You endure
You are good, always true
You are light breaking through

I am found, I am Yours
I am loved, I'm made pure
I have life, I can breathe
I am healed, I am free

You are more than enough
You are here, You are love
You are hope, You are grace
You're all I have, You're everything

Here's my heart Lord
Here's my heart Lord
Here's my heart Lord
Speak what is true *

*Note: Lyrics where edited for brevity

Songwriters
INGRAM, JASON / TOMLIN, CHRIS / GIGLIO, LOUIE

Published by
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.

Lyrics: http://www.metrolyrics.com/heres-my-heart-lyrics-crowder.html

Video: https://youtu.be/WTDoDA-1lsE

God I give You all I can today

These scattered ashes that I hid away

I lay them all at Your feet

From the corners of my deepest shame

The empty places where I've worn Your name

Show me the love I say I believe

Oh Help me to lay it down

Oh Lord I lay it down

Oh let this be where I die

My lord with thee crucified

Be lifted high as my Kingdom's fall

Once and for all, once and for all

There is victory in my Saviors loss

And In the crimson flowing from the cross

Pour over me, pour over me yes

Oh Lord I lay it down

Help me to lay it down

Oh Lord I lay it down

Once and for all

Oh once and for all

Once and for all *

*Note: Lyrics where edited for brevity

Songwriters
LAUREN DAIGLE, PAUL DUNCAN, PAUL MABURY

Published by
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

Video: https://youtu.be/tGThuymN8aY

Witness:

I begin today Lord with worshiping You with a confessional song. It contains a petition to speak what is true. I know You speak what is true always. So, I am asking You to speak it into my life through your living Word. Lord I trust You for You are truth. Many today follow, vote for, believe in, those who do not tell the truth but tell them what they want to hear. We have divorced trust from the truth and like the Apostle Paul says:

For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. 2 Tim 4:3-5 NIV

This is true in the Church as well as in society in general. The world has gone postmodern and many in the Church have followed suit. Oh, Lord let me never conform to the world, but ever be transformed by You Word; Thy Word is truth (John 17:17) Therefore, I place my trust in You, because Your Words are truth and they are life (John 6:33, John 14:16-17, John 14:6, John 6:68)

WORD:

Ps 25:1-3

25 Toa you, O LORD, I lift up my soul;

2 in you I trust, O my God.

Do not let me be put to shame,

nor let my enemies triumph over me.

3 No one whose hope is in you

will ever be put to shame,

but they will be put to shame

who are treacherous without excuse.

NIV

Ps 25:1-3

25 To you, O LORD, Io lift up my soul.

2 O my God, in you Ip trust;

q let me not be put to shame;

r let not my enemies exult over me.

3 Indeed,s none who wait for you shall be put to shame;

they shall be ashamed who aret wantonlyu treacherous.

ESV

Ps 25:1-3

25 1 O LORD, I give my life to you.

2 I trust in you, my God!

Do not let me be disgraced,

or let my enemies rejoice in my defeat.

3 No one who trusts in you will ever be disgraced,

but disgrace comes to those who try to deceive others.

Ps 25:1-3

25 To You, O LORD, I alift up my soul.

2 O my God, in You aI trust,

Do not let me bbe ashamed;

Do not let my cenemies exult over me.

3 Indeed, anone of those who wait for You will be ashamed;

1Those who bdeal treacherously without cause will be ashamed

NASU

How will we characterize this psalm?

Wycliffe’s says this:

Psalm 25. An Acrostic Prayer for Help

Psalms 25:1-7

Unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.

This psalm, the supplication of an individual, uses the letters of the Hebrew alphabet as a framework. It is difficult to recognize here a logical order of thought because of the necessity of beginning each verse with a subsequent letter of the alphabet. There are only three places in our present text (vv. 2,5,18) where the acrostic breaks down. The style is simple, straightforward, prayerful, and humble.

Spurgeon:

Psalms 24:10

PSALM 25

Title. A Psalm of David. David is pictured in this Psalm as in a faithful miniature. His holy trust, his many conflicts, his great transgression, his bitter repentance, and his deep distresses are all here; so that we see the very heart of "the man after God's own heart." It is evidently a composition of David's later days, for he mentions the sins of his youth, and from its painful references to the craft and cruelty of his many foes, it will not be too speculative a theory to refer it to the period when Absalom was heading the great rebellion against him. This has been styled the second of the seven Penitential Psalms. It is the mark of a true saint that his sorrows remind him of his sins, and his sorrow for sin drives him to his God.

Subject and Division. The twenty-two verses of this Psalm begin in the original with the letters of the Hebrew alphabet in their proper order. It is the first instance we have of an inspired acrostic or alphabetical song. This method may have been adopted by the writer to assist the memory; and the Holy Spirit may have employed it to show us that the graces of style and the arts of poetry may lawfully be used in his service. Why should not all the wit and ingenuity of man be sanctified to noblest ends by being laid upon the altar of God? From the singularity of the structure of the Psalm, it is not easy to discover any marked divisions; there are great changes of thought, but there is no variation of subject; the moods of the writer's mind are twofold — prayer and meditation; and as these appear in turns, we should thus divide the verses. Prayer from Ps 25:1-7; meditation, Ps 25:8-10; prayer, Ps 25:11; meditation, Ps 25:12-15; prayer, Ps 25:16-22.

Bible Knowledge Commentary:

PSALM 25

David confidently turned to the Lord for divine instruction and forgiveness from his iniquity because of His mercies for Israel. This psalm is a meditation on the character of God that prompts the humble to respond with confession and prayer. The psalm is an acrostic, as each verse begins with a successive letter of the Hebrew alphabet.

(from Bible Knowledge Commentary/Old Testament Copyright © 1983, 2000 Cook Communications Ministries; Bible Knowledge Commentary/New Testament Copyright © 1983, 2000 Cook Communications Ministries. All rights reserved.)

UBS:

Psalm 25

This psalm is a lament by an individual who prays to God for help in his troubles (verses 2,3,16-18a,19-20), for forgiveness (verses 7,11,18b), and for guidance (verses 4-5). The psalm is one of the nine acrostic psalms (see Ps 9-10): each verse begins with a different letter of the Hebrew alphabet, going in order from ‎alef‎, the first letter (verse 1), to ‎taw‎, the last letter (verse 21). There are, however, some places where the device is not maintained: the letter ‎waw ‎(which should come as the last line of verse 5) is not represented in the Masoretic text (a few manuscripts include it), nor the letter ‎qof ‎(which should be verse 18); and the last verse is outside the scheme altogether…

Some scholars feel this psalm does not maintain a regular progression of thought, but switches abruptly from one subject to another, and from personal plea to impersonal statement. The difficulty of composing an acrostic poem may account for this. Anderson suggests a general division into three parts: (1) verses 1-7, prayers for help, guidance, forgiveness; (2) verses 8-14, God's character and attributes; (3) verses 15-21, another series of petitions for help. The last verse (verse 22) is a general prayer on behalf of Israel.

However, the structure of Ps 25 may also be seen as a balanced set of petitions interlaced with praise and assurance. Following the opening address of praise and trust, there are two sets of petitions. These are followed in verses 8-10 by praise to God. Verse 11 is again a single petition followed in verses 12-15 by a statement of assurance of security for the one who obeys the Lord. Then in verses 16-18 the psalmist petitions the Lord to deliver and forgive him, and in verses 19-22 there is a final set of petitions, culminating in a request for the redemption of Israel. This alternation of themes may be listed as follows:

In spite of the limitations imposed by the acrostic feature, the poet has constructed a highly regular and symmetrical pattern in which a single petition for forgiveness stands at the center of the psalm, with two sets of petitions on either side. The theme of forgiveness is repeated in the inner petitions, 2 and 4. And "enemies" is repeated in the outer petitions, 1 and 5. The transformation from individual concern to that of the entire people takes place only in the closure, "Redeem Israel." In this way the psalmist closes abruptly through a sudden switch from exclusion to inclusion.

I hope this gives a flavor of what is to come in this Psalm. I have a thought two more on the phrase “I lift my soul”, but I will stop here for now so I can take all this in. It may seem dry to some, but it frames this psalm for me and helps me to understand it better.

Lift…trust…Rest…Wait…Receive!

Lord, to You I will lift my soul.

It’s You I trust to make me whole.

While many trust in worldly wealth

Or knowledge to sustain their earthly health.

I rest in Your providing hand

As I wait to enter Your promised land.

For all they have or seek in this short life

Will soon be destroyed in judgement rife.

But I an alien and stranger on this earth

Receive a treasure of inestimable worth!

2 Cor 4:16-18

16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. 17 For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 18 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

NIV

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