Title: I Love Him (Psalm 116:1-19)
What do we rejoice in, what do we rejoice in, and what do we give thanks for while we live our faith life?
What experiences, experiences, traces, and patterns are we proud of while we live our spiritual life?
What powers, gifts, and answers have we glorified since we received the authority to become children of God?
As Christians, while we love and serve one another, what have we shared, given and given, and have come this far?
We don't know how we have always been grateful and always have our testimonies and experiences, and we have lived our lives with the power that we can't do and the confidence that there is nothing we can't do.
We may have lived by exalting ourselves as men of God who are more dignified and proud than anyone else.
On the other hand, maybe we have always come before God with an apologetic, shameful and remorseful heart.
Because compared to the grace and love that God gave me, I was too proud before God, and compared to the grace and love that I received from God, God filled me with great things.
We are still living in the warmth of God's grace.
Even though it doesn't seem like it doesn't exist, it always touches my heart and life, and I feel the hand of God who is always there even though it seems invisible.
We need to look around and see how much we feel and live in God, who comes and waits for us on every road we go.
Even after closing the dam and filling it with water, the saved saints and us who are receiving God's special touch and love, thinking of the grace, love, and traces that still remain unchanged at the bottom of the floor, how should we thank God?
Today, we would like to share joy with you while groping for God's love and grace.
1. God listens to my voice.
The world is all busy with their thoughts, ends, and means, so there is no time to stop at someone's voice and no time to listen to someone's call or story for a long time.
Even today, the world is being chased by something, and it is too busy to chase after something.
However, God listens to my prayers and listens to me even though we are living a life without promises that we do not know when we will seek Him or when we will call Him.
Even though I always forget, God still remembers me and is waiting for a word from us.
(Psalm 116:1) I love him because the LORD hears my voice and my supplications.
(Psalm 116:2) He has inclined his ear to me, and I will pray all the days
When hardships come to me or when tribulation comes to me, even when I look around in all directions, east, west, north, and south, and no one puts a hand on me, God is still there and binds up the wounds in my heart and heals my physical pain.
God is a truly gracious, righteous and merciful Father to me.
(Psalm 116:3) When the cords of death wrapped around me, and the afflictions of Hades came upon me, when I met tribulation and sorrow
(Psalm 116:4) I prayed in the name of the LORD, O LORD, I pray thee, deliver my soul.
(Psalm 116:5) The LORD is gracious and righteous; our God is merciful.
It is not easy to see a father like this no matter where in the world you go.
Our Heavenly Father, God the Father, is still there, quietly listening to me, and lovingly caressing me.
2. God raises me who has fallen.
We don't know if we are living our lives without a back and forth at a step too busy.
We may trample on our fallen selves and live without knowing the world.
Sometimes, knowing that the path I am taking is the right and fastest path, I diligently aimlessly
I'm going.
And I am living proudly, mistakenly thinking that I am receiving the grace of God that I have never felt before. Then we fall and then we break, but we still live by our means and our ways. But even now, God goes with us wherever we go and waits for us wherever we stay. You spread out your palms so we don't fall, and you spread the hem of your robe on the floor that we might get hurt.
(Psalm 116:6) The LORD preserves the foolish; he saved me when I was humbled.
(Psalm 116:7) Return to your peace, my soul, for the LORD is hospitable to you.
(Psalm 116:8) You have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from stumbling.
In this way, we are always living with the help of God, struggling in the grace that we cannot afford. When we are in danger and crisis, He takes us with His good arms and leads us to a place of peace and safety, and when we are in trouble and trouble, He helps us to cross the road by blocking it with our whole body.
God is with us today.
He gives me strength when I am tired, gives me courage when I am tired, lifts me up when I fall, and raises me with the strength and courage to try again when I fail.
3. God values me.
In the world, I am turned around and marginalized, and wherever I sit, stay, and lie down, the world spreads a smoke screen of anxiety, worry and fear, making it difficult for me to feel comfortable even for a moment. The world persecutes us, despises us, and even throws stones at us.
However, God still holds us in his arms today so that we can feel the warmth and enjoy it, and make the flag flutter with the traces of the cross and the pattern of love.
(Psalm 116:10) As I believe, I will speak; I have been in great trouble.
(Psalm 116:13) I take the cup of salvation and call on the name of the LORD;
(Psalm 116:14) I will pay my vows to the LORD before all his people.
(Psalm 116:15) The death of the saints is dear to the Lord.
In this way, God sees whether we are trapped, whether our way is closed, blocked, or entangled.
God looks at whether we are weeping because we are alienated or turned away. And He values us and sets us free by untying the bonds of our lives.
(Psalm 116:16) Truly, O LORD, I am your servant, the son of your maidservant, your servant; you have loosed my bonds.
Therefore, we should repay God's grace throughout our lives, give thanks to God, and live up to God's name.
(Psalm 116:12) With what shall I repay all the favor the Lord has given me?
(Psalm 116:17) I will offer thanksgiving to you, and I will call on the name of the LORD.
(Psalm 116:18) I will pay my vows to the LORD before all his people.
God listens to my voice.
God builds me up when I fall.
God values me.
I hope that you will become a faithful person of God who exalts and boasts of God's name.