Trust and Security

Our youth ministry director and seminarian, Nate Bendorf, will be preaching on June 20 while Toni and I are in Taylors Falls as part of the 150th anniversary celebration of that congregation.  Thanks, Nate!

Looking ahead to June 27--we will be reading Psalm 16.  So appropriate for the Sunday after the congregation meeting, as are the other scriptures assigned for that day--good to read them but also the context around them from your Bibles - 1 Kings 18:15-16,19-21 (look also at 1 Kings 18); Galatians 5:1, 13-25 and Luke 9:51-62.

Here is Psalm 16 from the New Living Translation.

16 A psalm of David - a Song of Trust and Security in God..

¹      Keep me safe, O God,

for I have come to you for refuge.

²      I said to the Lord, “You are my Master!

Every good thing I have comes from you.”

³      The godly people in the land

are my true heroes!

I take pleasure in them!

⁴      Troubles multiply for those who chase after other gods.

I will not take part in their sacrifices of blood

or even speak the names of their gods.

⁵      Lord, you alone are my inheritance, my cup of blessing.

You guard all that is mine.

⁶      The land you have given me is a pleasant land.

What a wonderful inheritance!

⁷      I will bless the Lord who guides me;

even at night my heart instructs me.

⁸      I know the Lord is always with me.

I will not be shaken, for he is right beside me.

⁹      No wonder my heart is glad, and I rejoice.

My body rests in safety.

¹⁰      For you will not leave my soul among the dead

or allow your holy one to rot in the grave.

¹¹      You will show me the way of life,

granting me the joy of your presence

and the pleasures of living with you forever.

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