I love my pastor at Conway’s First Baptist Church. He used Psalm 68:19-35 as the primary text for his Thanksgiving sermon this past Sunday. Here are a couple of excerpts.
Verses 19-20:
Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior,
who daily bears our burdens.
Our God is a God who saves;
from the Sovereign LORD comes escape from death.
These words are nice aren’t they? Just perfect for this Thanksgiving season. God bears our burdens. He provides. He saves us. You get a nice warm feeling inside, don’t you?
Here come verses 21-23.
Surely God will crush the heads of his enemies,
the hairy crowns of those who go on in their sins.
The Lord says, "I will bring them from Bashan;
I will bring them from the depths of the sea,
that you may plunge your feet in the blood of your foes,
while the tongues of your dogs have their share."
Whoa. God is in the business of crushing heads?? He wants to destroy our enemies so we can slosh around in their blood?? Man, that’s dark.
But our God is not just sweet – He is also fierce. And He wants to deliver us and show His strength through us. Another wonderful reason to be thankful, don’t you think?
Have a great Thanksgiving week!! (Just keep an eye on your dogs.)
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words cannot describe how many times someone in church read verses like that and i have asked myself, "Why did they stop there?"
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