For the choir director.

A psalm of David.

But may all who search for you be filled with joy and gladness in you. 

May those who love your salvation repeatedly shout, 

"The Lord is great!"

Psalms 40:16 NLT

After focusing on his troubles, on those who are against him, David goes big picture in this part of the song. In the midst of my circumstances, enemies, people pulling me down, my troubles he looks up and knows that he is OK.

Yahweh has and will save me.

In the midst of what I'm facing there can still be this inner joy, because God is who He says He is, and we can seek Him in the midst of it all, rely on His character, and that our salvation is secure. As Paul says in Ephesians 1 we're chosen & adopted into God's family & are now heirs. In Romans 8 Paul reminds us that we are completely and irreversibly secure, safe in His love and grace. 

Praying today for our whanau in the Ukraine that they know this ultimate safety. 

May we sing with David that the Lord is great. One day we're all going to do that together :

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