{"id":3561,"date":"2020-07-07T15:09:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T22:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/?p=3561"},"modified":"2020-07-07T15:09:50","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T22:09:50","slug":"hobart-herd-devotional-psalms-63","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/?p=3561","title":{"rendered":"Hobart Herd Devotional – Psalms 63"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hobart Herd Devotional \u2013 Psalms 63<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

   \u201cO God, You are my God, and I will ever\npraise You.  O God, You are my God, and I\nwill ever praise You.  I will seek You in\nthe morning and I will learn to walk in Your ways; and step by step You\u2019ll lead\nme, and I will follow You all of my days.\u201d \nThis popular worship chorus by David Strasser, 1991; immediately came to\nmind as I read the first verse of Psalms 63. \nThis Psalm was written while David was in the wilderness and unable to\nworship God at the Tabernacle and the Ark of the Covenant.  This is very appropriate for all of us\nsuffering from the lack of worship together with the Body of Believers in our\nlocal churches.  It is a great reminder\nthat while we are unable to worship together in our places of worship, we can\nstill worship God from the bottom of our hearts and look forward to the time\nwhen we will worship again together.  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

   David had seen the glory of God descend on\nHis Tabernacle, and watched God defend and protect His people.  This caused him to remember and celebrate\nthat God was with him regardless of where he was at.  Psalms 63:3-4, 3   Because your love is better than life, my\nlips will glorify you. 4          I will praise you as long as I live, and in\nyour name I will lift up my hands.(NIV) \nThese verses should remind us of God\u2019s promise to never leave us or\nforsake us, and that nothing can separate us from the love of God that is ours\nthrough the Lord Jesus Christ.(Romans 8:35-39) \nWe can always worship God from our hearts no matter the circumstances or\nthe location.  When we are commanded to\nrejoice in the Lord always, we should remember these words of worship and\npraise.  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

   The picture of David\u2019s worship in spite of\nthe dry and weary wilderness and the less than ideal circumstances are\ndescribed in Psalms 63:6-8, 6  On my bed\nI remember you; I think of you through the watches of the night.  7  Because\nyou are my help, I sing in the shadow of your wings.  8  My\nsoul clings to you; your right hand upholds me.(NIV)  We are reminded to remember Who God is and\nall the things He has done for us; and in so doing we can sing in the shadow of\nHis wings.  We can hide ourselves in Him\nand allow His loving, protecting arms to surround us as we snuggle up to Him in\nour fear and troubles.  Then our heart\ncan truly sing and worship Him as He deserves. \nThe only location needed is in His loving arms, in the shadow of His\nwings, clinging to the Hand that will never let me go!  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

   Father, there are many times when I feel\nalone, afraid, and unable to worship You because of the troubles I find myself\nin.  Forgive me for forgetting that You\nare always with me, loving, protecting, holding my hand through it all.  I truly do worship You in the shadow of Your\nwings, and pray that You receive from my heart all the glory and praise due\nYour Holy Name.  Thank You for being \u201cMy\nGod\u201d, my the Rock of Ages.  In Jesus\nName, Amen!  Pastor Rob<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hobart Herd Devotional \u2013 Psalms 63    \u201cO God, You are my God, and I will ever praise You.  O God, You are my God, and I will ever praise You.  I will seek You in the morning and I …<\/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\/3561"}],"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=3561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3562,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3561\/revisions\/3562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}