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Sunday Psalms:

Wake up, O Lord!
Why do you sleep? 
Get up!
Do not reject us forever. Why do you 
look the other way? 
Why do you 
ignore our suffering and oppression? 
We collapse in the dust, lying face down in the dirt. 
Rise up! 
Help us! 
Ransom us because of your unfailing love.
Psalms 44:23-26 NLT
Ever thought about talking to God like this?
Maybe you have, perhaps there's been times when you've really wanted to...this ending to this song is in our Bible for a reason...
It's human to want things fixed. 
Injustice.
To have shalom. 
To have shalom restored. 
To know peace.
To have God act and intervene on our behalf, to just make things RIGHT. 
It's OK to express how you feel...do what the psalmist did and write it down. 
These are songs to God. Write a song. 
This one, 44, tells a story, and when we read it we get the opportunity to relate to the writer and see how their experience might connect with ours, how their emotions might be similar to ours, how their hopes might be similar to ours.
It's OK to be human. 
It's OK to want shalom.
It's OK to want justice.
And it's Ok to let God know :)
#sunday
#psalms
#itsOKtobeYou
#youareBeloved

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