{"id":3451,"date":"2020-06-15T16:17:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T23:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/?p=3451"},"modified":"2020-06-15T16:17:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T23:17:14","slug":"hobart-herd-devotional-psalms-44-6-14-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/?p=3451","title":{"rendered":"Hobart Herd Devotional – Psalms 44 – 6-14-20"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hobart Herd Devotional \u2013 Psalms 44-6-14-20<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

   This Psalm is a lament to God for seemingly\nnot being there for His people.  If we\nare truthful, all of us have had times when we feel as if God has forgotten us\nor rejected us.  I am so glad that God\nhears the laments and cries of our heart and does not only hear us when everything\nis going good.  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

   In verses 1-8 we have a review of the\nhistory of God with His people as He fights for them when they entered the land\nafter 40 years in the wilderness.  We\nneed to remember the history of God\u2019s goodness and the victory of God\u2019s\nfighting for us.  I have seen the Lord direct,\nguide, fight and bring victory in my life over the 40 years of ministry.  I have also lived through many days of\nsadness, depression and lament as it seemed the Lord had forsaken me. Psalms\n44:6-8, 6 <\/sup>  For not in my\nbow do I trust, <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

nor can my\nsword save me.  7 <\/sup> But\nyou have saved us from our foes <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

and have\nput to shame those who hate us. 8 <\/sup> In God we have boasted\ncontinually, <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

and we\nwill give thanks to your name forever. Selah<\/em>(ESV)  Through all of the history of my life, I know\nthat any victory came because the Lord fought for me not because of my strength\nor skill.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

   From verses 9-16 we hear of the embarrassment\nand disgrace that came when Israel\u2019s enemies defeated them.  So many times there is a reason for our\ndefeat.  We may have forgotten God, or\nsinned against Him.  We may have trusted\nin our own strength or followed our own paths instead of God\u2019s way.  However, in verses 17-22 we find that this\nwas not the case.  The nation was\nbewildered because they were innocent of turning away from God.  Their heart had not \u201cturned back\u201d; their steps\nhad not \u201cdeparted from Your way\u201d; they had not spread the hands to a foreign\ngod.  The description turns to some very\nwell known words in verse 22, \u201cYet for your sake we are killed all the day\nlong; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.\u201d  This verse is repeated in the New Testament\nin Romans 8:36, and is followed by some the greatest words of assurance and strength.  Romans 8:37-39, 37 <\/sup>No, in all\nthese things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 <\/sup>For\nI am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things, present\nnor things to come, nor powers, 39 <\/sup>nor height nor depth, nor\nanything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God\nin Christ Jesus our Lord.(ESV)  We must\nnever forget that no matter how hard it is nothing can separate us from the\nlove of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

   The last 4 verses are a prayer pleading for\nthe Lord to awake, come to their defense, and rise up and be their help.  We can trust in His redemption because of the\nsteadfast love of the Lord.(vs. 26)    <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

   Father, in my deepest depression and despair,\nhelp me to remember all the times You have been there for me.  I know that I will go through times when the\nenemy defeats and mocks me.  Help me to\ntrust in Your redemption, never forgetting that nothing can separate me from\nYour love.  In Jesus Name, Amen!  Pastor Rob<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hobart Herd Devotional \u2013 Psalms 44-6-14-20    This Psalm is a lament to God for seemingly not being there for His people.  If we are truthful, all of us have had times when we feel as if God has forgotten …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[142],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3451"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3452,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3451\/revisions\/3452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}