Psalm 39 "The Inner Struggle Released Upward"
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Hello ROOTS family...
Chris and Nicole are up in Breckenridge at Pastor Jimmy Humphrey’s church this weekend. Jimmy is one of our board members. Chris is guest teaching and leading worship there this weekend so he asked me to fill in this morning.
Here at ROOTS we are always going to be in God’s word so If you need a Bible raise your hand and we will put a Bible in your hand.
Turn in your Bibles with me to the book of Psalms….chapter 39. A message I’ve titled:
“The Inner Struggle Released Upward”
Ill read our passage this morning and then we will pray and dive in.
To the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.
1 I said, “I will guard my ways, Lest I sin with my tongue;
I will restrain my mouth with a muzzle,
While the wicked are before me.”
2 I was mute with silence,
I held my peace even from good;
And my sorrow was stirred up.
3 My heart was hot within me;
While I was musing, the fire burned.
Then I spoke with my tongue:
4 “Lord, make me to know my end,
And what is the measure of my days,
That I may know how frail I am.
5 Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths,
And my age is as nothing before You;
Certainly every man at his best state is but vapor.
Selah
6 Surely every man walks about like a shadow;
Surely they busy themselves in vain;
He heaps up riches,
And does not know who will gather them.
7 “And now, Lord, what do I wait for?
My hope is in You.
8 Deliver me from all my transgressions;
Do not make me the reproach of the foolish.
9 I was mute, I did not open my mouth,
Because it was You who did it.
10 Remove Your plague from me;
I am consumed by the blow of Your hand.
11 When with rebukes You correct man for iniquity,
You make his beauty melt away like a moth;
Surely every man is vapor.
Selah
12 “Hear my prayer, O Lord,
And give ear to my cry;
Do not be silent at my tears;
For I am a stranger with You,
A sojourner, as all my fathers were.
13 Remove Your gaze from me, that I may regain strength,
Before I go away and am no more.”
lets pray.
Intro
This psalm really lets us see the struggle of King David as he battles with sin. Especially in regards to the temptation that comes from being in the presence of evil and the strength and staying power that only the LORD provides.
The battle is with sin but we will see that the tongue in this psalm is where the battle begins but is also where the battle is ultimately won too. The answer is in WHO we speak to and the way in which we direct our words. The condition of our hearts will ultimately express itself in our words and we must be careful to be prayerful and aware of our thoughts in any given situation and direct our words to God for help rather than in gossip, complaint, or argument with man
This takes a humble heart and a willingness to yield to God.
I had fully prepared to preach a different text this week and while I was sitting in service last week and listening to our pastor preach from James 3, I felt led to share this psalm with you all.
Here at ROOTS we very much believe in unity and continuity in our body. Our 4th-6th graders, our Grounded middle and high school ministry and our main service all go through the same text each week. So I thought it would be fitting to share this psalm that will sort of piggy back off of the text we just finished in James 3.
Like Chris mentioned last week, our speech is tied directly with our hearts and minds.
Jesus tells us in
45 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.
9 “The heart is deceitful above all things,
And desperately wicked;
Who can know it?
we should not "trust our heart" and If our hearts and minds are the roots of our speech, then it is sure that what comes from our mouth really shows the condition of our hearts.
We will see all these things factor in in our text this morning and we will get a glimpse of how this heart problem and the difficulties it brought caused David to rely on God’s staying power in his time of need.
Lets take a look at the text and see what God wants to teach us..
1 I said, “I will guard my ways, Lest I sin with my tongue;
I will restrain my mouth with a muzzle,
While the wicked are before me.”
2 I was mute with silence,
I held my peace even from good;
And my sorrow was stirred up.
3 My heart was hot within me;
While I was musing, the fire burned.
Then I spoke with my tongue:
In the first 3 verses we see the awareness of King David’s situation, the need to keep silent, but also the pains it brings deep down to stifle his words.
Ill call this section
Psalm 39:1-3: The Purposed Desire to not Sin and Its Internal Conflict
In verse 1 David says that he will guard his ways and restrain his mouth as with a muzzle.
David was in a situation where he was tempted to sin. He was in the presence of the wicked.
The Bible says in
33 Do not be deceived: “Evil company corrupts good habits.”
David knew this. Probably because he understood temptation fully in this moment.
So he takes action and decides he is going to keep silent at all costs.
He is purposeful in what he is doing and saying because he understands his condition as a sinner and is aware of his surroundings in the presence of the wicked. Awareness of our condition paired with awareness of our situation is important if we want to have victory over sin. Understanding that we are sinners by nature and therefore, prone towards sin even without external help gives us the foundation to know that when we add this already sinful nature to a sinful environment, the result will likely end up…..well sinful.
We don't need help being conformed to the world.
David also knew that the tongue was where he must first be guarded.
as we learned last week, James speaks to why this was important.
2 For we all stumble in many things. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.
5 Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things.
See how great a forest a little fire kindles! 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell. 7 For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and creature of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind. 8 But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. 9 With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the similitude of God.
James might well have had this psalm in mind when he was writing his epistle. The use of fire as an analogy for the spread of sin and the understanding that that fire could be spread with something as small as our tongues is not a new testament idea alone, we see it here in David’s day as well.
So we know that the tongue has power over the whole body. We also see in Verse 1 that David was “in the presence of the wicked”
So there was this outside influence that could have fanned the flame and led to more ungodliness.
Verse 2-3 says that David kept silent and didn't even speak good, probably for the fear that evil might be mixed in. Our hearts are so geared towards sin that if we aren't guarded with our words, sin will undoubtedly be present.
in Proverbs 10:19 we are taught that
19 In the multitude of words sin is not lacking,
But he who restrains his lips is wise.
the more we speak, the more sin is likely to increase. This isn't always the case, but it is a principle that shows why David chose to hold his peace in the situation he was in.
So David did a wise thing in guarding his tongue at the beginning of this psalm..
However, as he held all of this in, his sorrow increased. The word “musing” here basically means “meditating.” whatever David’s situation was, the more he thought about it and dwelt on it, the worse it got.....the text says “a fire burned within him”
So restraining his tongue, at least in this example, brought with it another set of problems...
David was in a conflict….
Door number 1: He could speak in the presence of the wicked and risk the fire of sin spreading out of his heart through his mouth
or..
Door number 2: He could keep silent amidst internal agony and his heart would continue to burn within him causing more longer lasting sin effects.
Are either of these the best options? I would argue that door number 2 was necessary at least initially to keep door number 1 from flying open, but we cannot possibly endure in the room that door number 2 leads to for long…
Spurgeon puts it this way…
“Silence is an awful thing for a sufferer, it is the surest method to produce madness.” - C.H Spurgeon
And
Thomas Watson says:
“When lust or anger burns in the soul, Satan warms himself at this fire.” - Thomas Watson
Either place he turns will ultimately give place to the devil..either in immediate sin by word and then deed, or by the internal torment that is produced by holding onto such a burden as striving against sin in our own power.
Now David was attempting to not sin here when he was suppressing his words and thoughts, but we can at times also hold things in that we shouldn’t and therefore cause us to put up walls in our heart and cause bitterness and resentment to spring up.
For instance, If someone does something to hurt us and instead of approaching them one on one like Jesus teaches us in Matthew 18 and hashing it out and reconciling the relationship, we can hold a grudge in our hearts and let a root of bitterness spring up.
then this will likely reverse engineer this Psalm and cause gossip and murmuring to then proceed from our mouths....
it is a 2 way street when it comes to our hearts and mouths. the same fountain that produces fresh water can sometimes be a monsoon that muddys up our lives and floods into our relationships.
Now striving to “kill sin” in our lives will only produce frustration when we fail and discouragement that can lead to us giving up. Don't get me wrong, we should never willingly continue in sin. But putting sin to death is a backwards way to approach it…sin has already been put to death by Jesus at the cross. We simply walk from the reality that we are already dead to sin and present ourselves to God as alive from the dead. (read chapters 6-8 of Romans)
David understood that door number 1 and his attempts to strive against sin by muzzling his mouth could never be sustained.
He also felt the burning in his soul that was eating away at him with door number 2....
that’s why i believe he opened door number 3....cry out to the Lord!
look at verses 4-6
4 “Lord, make me to know my end,
And what is the measure of my days,
That I may know how frail I am.
5 Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths,
And my age is as nothing before You;
Certainly every man at his best state is but vapor.
Selah
6 Surely every man walks about like a shadow;
Surely they busy themselves in vain;
He heaps up riches,
And does not know who will gather them.
lets call this segment..
Psalm 39:4-6: The Outward and Upward Release of Pride
as we see, the struggle with sin was too much for David. His strivings were burning within him and to release this toward man would have most definitely resulted in sin. To keep this bottled up inside would have slowly eaten away at him.
It had to be released......look where David decided to direct his words and yearnings…
To the LORD.
If you are taking notes, write this down.
the main difference between a complaint and a prayer is who you direct it to.
David could have spoken in the presence of the wicked but he chose to cry out to the Father. This is the answer to defeat sin. Cry out to Him who defeated sin and death on the cross
Philippians 4:6–7 (NKJV)
6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; 7 and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Notice how Paul says that we should make our requests known to God in order to receive a guarded heart and mind. He doesn't say, "tell your friend Karen, how the lady in line at Walmart was rude and it was all you could do to keep from telling her off.." No, he says that if we want this burning anxiety in our hearts to subside in a way that glorifies God, we must seek Him and allow Him to encamp His peace around our hearts.
the greek word for "guard" in Philippians 4:7 is the military term
phroureō (froo-reh'-o) and it literally means "to guard; protect by a military guard, either to prevent hostile invasion, or to keep the inhabitants of a besieged city from flight"
This is extraordinary… this protection prevents hostile invasion from the outside, but also seems to protect the people from fleeing out to danger.
The application we can draw from Paul’s use of this military word to describe God’s protection of our hearts and minds is this...
God will not only protect us from our enemies trying to come against us.......bad influences, scary circumstances and sinful environments, but God will also protect us from within....that is our already sinful desires that can corrupt us from the inside out.
In the same manner that someone who is “trapped” in a city under attack might think the best option is to flee but this would only result in them being vulnerable, Likewise, David could have rebuked the sinners in his presence or even worse, joined in out of the abundance of his heart but that would have opened the door to sin. David however, chose to direct His prayer to God and release the burning anxiety within....
God will not only protect us from outside enemies and the temptation that comes, but also from the wickedness of our own hearts fleeing forth and resulting in sinful words and actions.
David was trying to keep sin from exiting his heart just as much as he was trying to prevent outside influences from corrupting his heart further. If you will remember back when Chris taught in chapter 1 of James, We are the origin of our own sin.
James 1:14–15 (NKJV)
14 But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. 15 Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.
Satan’s loads his gun with our bullets and then shoots us with them.
Praise the Lord that He guards our hearts by His Spirit from the outside attack that plays on our own wants and desires. Truly He is the God that protects us from ourselves as well as our enemies. He literally preserves our going out and our coming in.
Another thing I want to point out from these verses in is what David cries out for...for God to remind him of his humanity and humble him.
4 “Lord, make me to know my end,
And what is the measure of my days,
That I may know how frail I am.
5 Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths,
And my age is as nothing before You;
Certainly every man at his best state is but vapor.
Selah
6 Surely every man walks about like a shadow;
Surely they busy themselves in vain;
He heaps up riches,
And does not know who will gather them.
If David's goal was to not sin, why would his petition to the LORD be for God to show him "the measure of his days," and "to make him to know his end?"
I believe it was because David, in his wisdom, knew that the root of all sin is pride.
Jesus when speaking to the prideful and blind Pharisees in John 8 says these words....
John 8:44 (NKJV)
44 You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.
keep a finger in Psalm 39 and turn in your Bibles to Isaiah 14 and lets look at Satan’s resources
12 “How you are fallen from heaven,
O Lucifer, son of the morning!
How you are cut down to the ground,
You who weakened the nations!
13 For you have said in your heart:
‘I will ascend into heaven,
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God;
I will also sit on the mount of the congregation
On the farthest sides of the north;
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds,
I will be like the Most High.’
15 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol,
To the lowest depths of the Pit.
Lucifer's "resources" are rooted in pride. He wanted to exalt himself above God. We do the same thing when we put self above God and reach continually for Idols. This, I believe was one reason that David chose to cry out for God to humble him with truth.
We are only here for a blip, we are frail in comparison to God, these are undeniable facts but the enemy uses the same lies to trick us into sin. He wants us to elevate ourselves above God and live to gratify the flesh.
the cult of Satanism in our society today has one broad rule.....DO WHAT THOU WILT!
at least they are biblical in their understanding of what Satan wants from us.....to do what we desire and allow sin to have a home birth in our homes and produce with it the death of our families and ourselves
keep your Bible open in Isaiah and look at the screen so we can contrast Jesus’s truth with Satan’s lie
5 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, 7 but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. 9 Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth,
Satan wanted to exalt himself above God
Jesus, being equal with God, brought himself low to man’s level.
Because of Satan’s pride it says in Isaiah 14:15 he was brought to the “lowest depths of the pit”
But because of Jesus’ obedience, it says He is exalted and given the name above all names.
Truly polar opposites….
David was a man after God’s own heart and we see that He prays a humbling prayer to overcome the enemy here in these verses instead of proving his father to be the devil....this is how he was able to overcome the temptation.
He was getting his heart right before entering into petition for help.
awareness of the pride and the confession that resulted prepared his heart to understand his condition and also cleansed his heart of the pride before he turned to the LORD for deliverance.
lets look at his humble heart and the awareness that it brought in the next set of verses back in our text....
7 “And now, Lord, what do I wait for?
My hope is in You.
8 Deliver me from all my transgressions;
Do not make me the reproach of the foolish.
9 I was mute, I did not open my mouth,
Because it was You who did it.
10 Remove Your plague from me;
I am consumed by the blow of Your hand.
11 When with rebukes You correct man for iniquity,
You make his beauty melt away like a moth;
Surely every man is vapor.
Selah
12 “Hear my prayer, O Lord,
And give ear to my cry;
Do not be silent at my tears;
For I am a stranger with You,
A sojourner, as all my fathers were.
13 Remove Your gaze from me, that I may regain strength,
Before I go away and am no more.”
This section I’ve dubbed..
Psalm 39:7-13: I Will Lift my Eyes up to the Hills.....My Help CAME From the Lord!
In verse 7 David turns to the Lord and acknowledges that his hope is in Him. David transitions from asking the Lord to show him his humanity into asking for the Lord’s help by both reassuring himself and proclaiming God’s truths back to him that in fact God is his strength and hope and that in David’s own frailty he could not possibly be able to deliver himself so he must wait on the Lord and cry out for His deliverance.
In verse 8 we see David’s petition. He asks for the Lord’s help in the defeat of his sin. He asks the Lord to “deliver him from all his transgressions.”
What does it mean to deliver?
Deliver: To free; to release, as from restraint; to set at liberty; as, to deliver one from captivity.
It is interesting that David was restraining his mouth in verse 1. As he described it, He muzzled his mouth like one would do an angry dog so as not to sin but by the time we get to verse 8 he has gone from restraining himself to stop the sin to asking the Lord to free him from the restraint of sin in his life.
David went to the source.
We cannot possibly strive to defeat sin in our own power, we must go to the Author and Finisher to free us from the grip of sin in our lives.
The answer in how to defeat sin is not to try to defeat sin, it is to walk with our minds and hearts set on Him who defeated sin and allow Christ’s work to then enter into our lives.
If we focus on trying to “put sin to death” our focus is on sin. This is Law. The Bible says the law entered so that sin might abound or increase. Our flesh wars against God’s law in such a way that we do the opposite. It can actually cause more sin to be present.
When i was a kid, my parents would tell me not to do something and that was the first thing i wanted to do.
The Bible teaches that this is because our flesh wars against the Spirit. If we focus on “not sinning” we put our mind on what NOT to do instead of what TO do.
Paul tells us to walk in the Spirit so as not to fulfill the lusts of the flesh,
He doesn't say “don’t walk in the flesh so you will end up walking in the Spirit.”
David realized this quickly while his heart was burning within him.
In verses 10-13 we see that the Lord’s help in this manner however wasn't always soft and gentle but we can be certain it was always applied with grace, David describes the Lord’s correction with words like “plague” and “blow” and David says the Lord made his beauty melt away like a moth.
The phrase “make his beauty” literally means “the things he desires” or “things he takes pleasure in”
David says the Lord melts these things away like a moth.
The imagery here is beautiful...i can just imagine a moth flying towards the light. The light has this way that draws the moth towards it. This is similar to how God, by His Spirit, changes our desires and replaces them with holy desires.
But what happens when we are in closer proximity to the light? Our flaws and imperfections are exposed and ultimately dealt with.
The Lord changes our desires to align with His desires. This happens supernaturally as we walk in the Light. Study his word, the Lamp to our feet, and rest in His will. The Light truly does melt away our sinful desires if we abide in it.
Now as beautiful as the imagery here is, David is still a man right? So he uses direct words like plague and blow.
He was probably like…ok, I am a poet, but I gotta hit em with some masculinity to make em understand I ain’t no punk......You just thought Hip Hop originated in the 70’s and 80’s...
I joke but how many of us have felt God’s beauty but also experienced the plagues and blows of life as well....show of hands?
Hebrews 12 speaks of this way the Lord corrects us sometimes..
5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons:
“My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord,
Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him;
6 For whom the Lord loves He chastens,
And scourges every son whom He receives.”
7 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? 8 But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. 9 Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? 10 For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness. 11 Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
God will help us overcome sin….it just might not look how we want it too.
It might be with a spiritual spanking like a father would his son. Or as David calls it... “a plague” or “blow”
If we could simply hear and obey God's word and instruction, the Law would have been sufficient. We wouldn’t need His Spirit and His correction. We can’t however. We need God and only He knows whether we need encouragement, empowerment, or correction.
Another thing we see in these verses is the desperation in David’s cry to the Lord.
It's interesting that as David battled with being silent so as not to sin and then all the turmoil that occurred within as a result, his cry to the Lord is that God “would not be silent at his tears” in verse 12.
He is basically saying, God my words fall short, but God your words are life and truth, Speak on my behalf because I fear my own words!
How many times do we cry out to God to break His silence and speak on our behalf. David said in verse 2 that he did not want to speak “even good” because he didn’t trust himself. Now He is crying out to the One who is altogether good to answer his prayer and deliver him. Such an amazing thing when we realize that in us nothing good dwells, but in Him is the fullness of everything good and holy and righteous.
The worship team is going to come up and i wanna close with a look back at
Psalm 39:9 (NKJV)
9 I was mute, I did not open my mouth,
Because it was You who did it.
Once David emptied himself of himself and cried out to the Lord in humility, he realized that it was the Lord who had strengthened him all along. It was God that gave him the awareness of his situation and the need for restraint. But also the empowerment to carry it out.
God knows what we need before we even ask.
Although David says in verse 1 “I will guard….and I will restrain…” he comes to the realization that it was God that had empowered him the whole time.
Spurgeon says it like this,
Nature failed to muzzle the mouth, but grace achieved the work in the worthiest manner. How like in appearance may two very different things appear! silence is ever silence, but it may be sinful in one case and saintly in another. What a reason for hushing every murmuring thought is the reflection, “because thou didst it”!
What our nature cannot do, God’s grace does
David’s silence in the first few verses was a striving silence, David’s silence in verse 9 was a holy silence. It was a silence of awareness. a peaceful silence
O how the silence of awe and reverence is far superior to the burning fire of strife.
In Phil 2:12-13 Paul shows us the relationship between our responsibility and God’s sovereignty as it pertains to sanctification…
12 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; 13 for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.
The last part of verse 12 “work out your salvation with fear and trembling” I hear quoted all the time, but I rarely hear verse 13 quoted. “For it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.”
Look how it is translated in the NET Bible…
Phil 2:12-13 NET - So then, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence but even more in my absence, continue working out your salvation with awe and reverence, for the one bringing forth in you both the desire and the effort - for the sake of his good pleasure - is God.
To “work out” your own salvation looks more like acknowledgement and surrender than strife. It looks more like rest than it does running, and it definitely all originates from God. The responsibility we have is to use the tools that God has already given us to honor Him with our lives. His Word and His Spirit guide and guard us.
Notice how God produces both the desire in us to want to do His will as well as the effort or empowerment to make it happen.
Our responsibility is to present ourselves to Him as alive from the dead and give Him awe and reverence as He works in us.
David came to this realization after he emptied himself out to the Lord and God let him in on the mystery…..I was there all along empowering you and keeping you from stumbling.
We won't see God moving amongst us if we have blinding pride in the way. David came to the realization after he cried out to the Lord in humility. If we do the same every morning, we are bound to see God working in our midst throughout the day.
I want to close with 2 pieces of scripture.
24 Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling,
And to present you faultless
Before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy,
The greek word for “to keep” here in Jude 24 is phylassō (Foo Law So) and is the same greek word in the Septuagint (greek translation of the OT) for “guard” in Psalm 39.
The Lord will surely keep us and guard us from sin if we humble ourselves and abide in Him.
And lastly…
1 I will lift up my eyes to the hills—From whence comes my help?
2 My help comes from the Lord,
Who made heaven and earth.
3 He will not allow your foot to be moved;
He who keeps you will not slumber.
4 Behold, He who keeps Israel
Shall neither slumber nor sleep.
5 The Lord is your keeper;
The Lord is your shade at your right hand.
6 The sun shall not strike you by day,
Nor the moon by night.
7 The Lord shall preserve you from all evil;
He shall preserve your soul.
8 The Lord shall preserve your going out and your coming in
From this time forth, and even forevermore.
In this song of ascents, the psalmist asks a question in verse 1 “Where does my help come from?” that he seems to already know the answer to and quickly answers in verse 2 “It comes from the Lord”….. David also seemed to very quickly realize that his help in this particular instance had already come. The Lord had been working in and through him the entire time.
Over 2000 years ago, the Son of David, came down, took on flesh leaving His crown at home in heaven.
He humbled Himself to the point of death to die for the sins of the world.
For David’s sins
For my sins
For your sins.
Once we strip our pride away and put our faith in Him, we can truly stare our sin in the face and say…
My help CAME from the Lord...death you have no hold on me for I was crucified together with my Lord and Savior and the life I now live I live in Him and for Him and He is the sustainer of my days
So thankful that our Keeper neither slumbers nor sleeps and that He is able to keep us from stumbling.
Lets pray.
