Do you remember the highly successful marketing campaign of the 1990’s Got milk? It was fun, innocent, and memorable.
As I came to the last Psalm in Worship & Wisdom, A Study of the Psalms and Proverbs, part 1, it wasn’t milk I was thinking about, but trouble. Twice in the last week, trouble was a key word for me in the Psalms we were reading. Not that we want trouble; more trouble. We’ve already got it. We personally, we corporately, we nationally – we’ve got trouble.
The key is that we are told no less than eight times in the first 50 Psalms Whom to go to about our troubles.
Psalms 9.9 and 37.39 The LORD is a stronghold for the oppressed … in times of trouble.
Psalm 20.1 May the LORD answer you in the day of trouble!
Psalm 22.11 Be not far from me, for trouble is near, and there is none to help.
Psalm 27.5 For he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble.
Psalm 32.7 You are a hiding place for me; you preserve me from trouble; you surround me with shouts of deliverance.
Psalm 41.1 Blessed is the one who considers the poor! In the day of trouble the LORD delivers him.
And from the last week of our study …
Psalm 46.2 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Psalm 50.15 Call upon me in the day of trouble, I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.”
So as we bid farewell to our study of the Psalms and Proverbs for now, I encourage you to allow yourself to regularly be reminded of God’s highly successful campaign to woo you to Him offering what He knows we desire most: help when trouble arises.
Dear one, Got trouble?
Love, your Father God
Call on Me.
I will answer you in your day of trouble.
I am your very present help in times of trouble.
I am your refuge and strength.
I pray you will join us this week for two meaningful services:
Good Friday Service 7pm on Friday, April 18
Resurrection Sunday Services! 9AM or 1030AM on Easter Sunday, April 20
Blessings, Colleen