You'd think that step one, "guarding your mouth with a muzzle", would be all that the good Lord requires of us. Nope. There is another step: watch what happens inside.

Does the muzzled anger burn a hole in your heart? I held my peace inside, but got no peace? I ate my words and they ate me up? If so, there is yet another problem to address. Join me if you just might need more than a muzzle.

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This Psalm had me at the title. Even before the title, because of the instructions. This song is to be sung after I am dead at the opening of the temple.

If you wrote a song to be sung long after you are gone, what would you say?

David, the realist: Weeping my tarry for the night

David, the optimist: but JOY comes with the morning.

You have turned my mourning into DANCING.

I leave you with joy. I leave you with dancing.

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Here it is: Be still and know that I am God.

I think this would be my mother's favorite verse. It was one of the first passages she underlined in her bible. She's passed from this world now, so she really now knows that He is God! Meantime, for us we can be still and know some truths in Psalm 46.

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May the Lord visit you on this morning; on this day

May the Lord be so close as to talk to you and test you.

May you see that the Lord has set His heart on you

May you appreciate that the Lord has made much of you

Perhaps we could respond: You have made much of us, the least we can do is make much of you>

As Chief Brody said in Jaws when confronted with the enormity before him:

"We’re gonna need a bigger boat"

There is a season in the development of little humans when they cannot yet talk. Ironically, the Lord uses this season for them to PRAISE and to LEAD in PRAISE.

If you have ever seen a baby up close, you might have cooed and admired and commented as to their glory. This is the Lord's doing. He uses such little ones to praise Him. He uses such little ones to lead adults in praise.

He uses those who cannot talk to shut the mouths of those who can.

He uses those who cannot talk to most clearly sing the strengths of God to those who can.

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If we could look inside the mind of God, what would we find?

The answer might surprise you. It certainly surprises me, every time I think about it: He thinks about MANKIND. He thinks about women. He thinks about men. He thinks about us. How do we know, He tells us in the powerful and personal Psalm 8.

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The path of an ongoing relationship to a God MUST be marked with conviction, correction, repentance and forgiveness.

Otherwise we cannot be in relationship with a holy God.

He warns us about this: don't be MULE HEADED in resistance.

The wonderful forgiveness of the Lord accessed by the heavy hand of conviction.When God's hand weighs heavy upon you, listen and respond.

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I'd love to say that the presence of God always feels joyful, intimate and enjoyable. Sometimes, though, it feels like a HEAVY HAND. Yikes.

This heavy hand is directionally moving us towards something: forgiveness. It is the most important of life skills. Without the skill of repentance, your life will be an ongoing testimony to one wrecked relationship after another--including with the Almighty.

Watch and admire with me what David does when he feels this heavy hand of God.

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