Sunday Psalms;

Have mercy on me, 

O God, 

have mercy, 

for in You 

my soul takes refuge. 

In the shadow 

of Your wings 

I will take shelter 

until the danger has passed. 

I cry out to 

God Most High, 

to God 

who fulfills His purpose for me. 

He reaches 

down 

from heaven 

and saves me; 

He rebukes 

those who trample me. Selah

Psalms 57:1-3 BSB

When we're under pressure, when things seem to be crashing in, crashing down, there's going to be something in these Psalms 55, 56 & 57 that connects with our situation, where things are for us. 

When we need mercy it's here, shelter, when we need to cry out, when we want those against us to be trampled, to be stopped, it's all here. 

These songs give us permission to speak what can feel unspeakable, they give us words when we can't find our own. 

At the heart of these songs is this:

When I am afraid (not if, no judgement that I shouldn't be afraid, just the very human reality of when I am afraid), I will trust in You (I will choose, even under pressure, in my fear, to continue to trust in the Eternal, the One who Is Love, who's wings I look to shelter beneath, the one who reaches down from heaven, in Him I choose to trust).

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