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Discipleship Focus: Guidance, Power
- Guidance: God grants us His guidance. Sometimes this guidance is God leading us away from temptation. Sometimes this guidance is helping us to follow in a direction for which He has chosen. Our default position should be to wait for God’s guidance and then follow when it comes.
- Power: This is the natural outcome when we truly get our authority from the king. When our authority is from God, we are equipped with His power to accomplish His will. We act on His behalf in a world that He desperately loves.
This is
another really neat historical psalm. I’m
sure as you read through the psalm you felt like you were recapping the history
of the Hebrew people from Abraham to at least Joshua. This is a classic psalm of teaching and
remembrance.
The
really important question, though, is what is the psalm teaching? The first thing that the psalm teaches us is
God’s guidance. In this particular
psalm, we get a perspective of guidance through people. God used Abraham. God used Jacob. God used Joseph. God used Moses. God used Aaron. God often gives us guidance in our life
through the very people around us.
However,
this psalm is not just about how God works through the people around us. This psalm speaks about God’s power,
too. We have a great recounting of the
plagues, and there are few examples of God’s power in the Bible that are more
dynamic than these. We hear about how
God brought His people out of Egypt burdened down with silver and gold. We hear about How God brought famine upon the
land but also brought sustenance through the storehouses of Joseph. As much as God uses the people around us, He
is also quite capable of acting through His own supernatural display.
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