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Sunday Psalms 

A pilgrimige song. 
Of David. 

If the LORD hadn't been for us-  let Israel now repeat! 
- if the LORD hadn't been for us, 
when those people attacked us then they would have swallowed us up whole with their rage burning against us!
Then the waters would have drowned us; 
the torrent would have come over our necks;   then the raging waters would have come over our necks! 
Bless the LORD because he didn't hand us over like food for our enemies' teeth!
We escaped like a bird from the hunters' trap; the trap was broken so we escaped! 
Our help is in the name of the LORD, 
the maker of heaven and earth.
Psalms 124 CEB

Some vivid word pictures of what David saw his people had been rescued from;
"swallowed us up whole"
"The hunters trap"
"The enemies teeth"
And what was going on in their world;
Being attacked by others
Others being angry towards them
"The torrent" that threatened to overwhelm
The "raging waters" that felt too much.
Perhaps there are times when these kinds of descriptions fitted your circumstances...perhaps you're in the middle of it now.
This song recognises the realities of life.
And holds the hope of our God who holds a Bigger Story, who holds us, even in the torrent, the raging waters.
This is a pilgrimige song, not the whole story, a step along the way...
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#takethenextstep

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