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Introduction - Buzzwords
Ghosting
Boujee
Sus
Adulting
Hashtag (and literally anything!)
Bussin’ (what is actually short for?)
Buzzword of 2020 - ZOOM
Resilience
Resilience:
“An ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change.”
— (Merriam-Webster.com
Dictionary, s.v.
“resilience,” accessed August 23, 2022, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/resilience.)
As a child of the 80’s resilience meant something different.
Resilience was my parents’ code for “We don’t want to have to pay for medical bills” i.e, “Don’t worry, he’s resilient, he’ll bounce back.”
ILLUST - Head wound in the Poconos
The way you built resiliency in the 80’s was you ‘threw a little dirt in it!’
“The capacity of a system, enterprise, or a person to maintain its core purpose and integrity in the face of dramatically changed circumstances.”
— Andrew Zolli and Ann Marie Healy, p. 17, Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back
We have all been through circumstances globally that have dramatically changed over the past few years.
Last year, as a university, you walked through some very difficult circumstances, and I have no idea what each of you have personally faced this past year, are currently facing, or will face.
But I think we could certainly use some #resiliency
Main Point: Resilience is forged through worship.
2 Samuel 12:15–23 (ESV)
15 Then Nathan went to his house.
And the Lord afflicted the child that Uriah’s wife bore to David, and he became sick.
Background - David and Bathsheba
Bathsheba gets pregnant and David has Uriah killed.
Thinks he gets away with it but is confronted by Nathan the prophet.
Nathan, on behalf of God, confronts David about his sin and tells David the consequences of his sin will affect his child.
*Have you been here?
Maybe you feel the consequences of you sin and you wish you could take it back?
Maybe you wonder what you could have done differently?
16 David therefore sought God on behalf of the child.
And David fasted and went in and lay all night on the ground.
17 And the elders of his house stood beside him, to raise him from the ground, but he would not, nor did he eat food with them.
18 On the seventh day the child died.
My wife and I experienced four miscarriages.
I’ve had a glimpse of the pain’t of losing a child.
Some of you have experienced the pain of losing someone close to you.
I’ve asked many of the same questions you asked:
“Why would God allow this to happen?” “Why would God allow this to happen to this child, to this person?”
“Did I miss something?
Did I do something wrong?”
“How can I ever move forward from this?”
David’s servants wondered how David would move forward:
And the servants of David were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he did not listen to us.
How then can we say to him the child is dead?
He may do himself some harm.”
They see how much pain and anguish David is in when the child is sick and they wonder how could David ever move forward if they tell him the child has died?
But they miscalculated David’s resiliency.
19 But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David understood that the child was dead.
And David said to his servants, “Is the child dead?”
They said, “He is dead.”
20 Then David arose from the earth and washed and anointed himself and changed his clothes.
And he went into the house of the Lord and worshiped.
He what?!
He had been pouring out his heart to God in prayer and fasting and when he finds out his child has died he. . .
gets dressed, goes to church, and worships?!
I want to know what worship songs they picked that day:
Our God is an Awesome God (OG worship song)?
Promises?
Goodness of God?
What Psalms did they read that day:
Psalm 34:6,8
6 This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him and saved him out of all his troubles.
8 Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good!
Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!
David says, nope, I wrote that, not appropriate today.
ILLUST - House in Shoey furnace breaks on Sunday and I can’t worship
He then went to his own house.
And when he asked, they set food before him, and he ate.
21 Then his servants said to him, “What is this thing that you have done?
You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive; but when the child died, you arose and ate food.”
22 He said, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, ‘Who knows whether the Lord will be gracious to me, that the child may live?’
23 But now he is dead.
Why should I fast?
Can I bring him back again?
I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.”
How was David so resilient?
It looked almost like David didn’t care, but what we see here is not naivete or lack of compassion but resilience.
David wasn’t dumb - he wasn’t naive
David wasn’t uncaring - look at how he fasted and prayed - many ANE kings would not take that much interest in their child.
How could David worship?
Why did David worship?
David understood something about worship that we need to learn: Worship is the way forward.
David’s resiliency was forged through his worship.
Let me explain.
Worship (Defined)
Worship is not simply music.
Worship is not less than music but it is so much more.
Although, we must never discount the power of worship music — Changing even the way we breathe to carefully frame theological words set to melody and rhythm is certainly deeper than simple sound or speech.
Worship is much more profound.
The word ‘worship’ comes from the Old English “worthship” meaning the worthiness of something (used in marriage vows, “With my body I thee worship).
In the Bible there is no one-to-one translation from either the Hebrew or the Greek to our English word, worship.
— falling on knees, fearing the LORD, giving glory
As God gave laws for society, religious services, and daily living — even through the building of the tabernacle, all of it was to point to remind the Israelites about their Creator God.
Worship is not a musical style, it is a lifestyle.
In The Brothers Karamozov, Dostoyevsky writes,
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