"They are abundantly satisfied with the fullness of Your house, and You give them drink from the river of Your pleasures." (Psalm 36:8)
I have started a new morning "routine." I read my five Psalms and one in the Wisdom Literature. I then worship with the video below, "Be Thou My Vision."
I have a number of songs which I like above the so many others written throughout time. But I can tell you that "Be Thou My Vision" has become a sort of "mine." I cannot remember the first time I heard it; it was decades ago. But as I was singing along with it yesterday, it was so expressing my love, adoration, praise to the Living Triune God. Quite frankly, it has been since the Fall of 1971 since I have experienced such worship.
The great Dallas Seminary Professor, and the man who was the pastor of a congregation which I was a part of during my freshman year in college, Dwight Pentecost, once said, "The Holy Spirit accompanies music." Yesterday for me, that was a classic understatement.
"Be Thou My Vision." This morning I thought, So many people talk of "vision." It usually has to do with their "ministry," their desires and goals for their personal lives. We should all "revisit" such. But I can tell you that nothing expresses my desire for "vision" better than this song.
Our text today says it so clearly to us all, "....And You give them drink from the river of Your pleasures." Worship with this song yesterday and today has been, "of Your pleasures." Jesus tells us of His, "river of...pleasures," when He invited all who were thirsty to come and drink of the Water which is Jesus Himself. "If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink....As the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water." May you and I drink, "....from th[is] River of [Jesus'] pleasures", the rest of our life. What great preparation for "the life to come."
Father, in Jesus' Name, I want no other "vision" than You. Amen.
I have started a new morning "routine." I read my five Psalms and one in the Wisdom Literature. I then worship with the video below, "Be Thou My Vision."
I have a number of songs which I like above the so many others written throughout time. But I can tell you that "Be Thou My Vision" has become a sort of "mine." I cannot remember the first time I heard it; it was decades ago. But as I was singing along with it yesterday, it was so expressing my love, adoration, praise to the Living Triune God. Quite frankly, it has been since the Fall of 1971 since I have experienced such worship.
The great Dallas Seminary Professor, and the man who was the pastor of a congregation which I was a part of during my freshman year in college, Dwight Pentecost, once said, "The Holy Spirit accompanies music." Yesterday for me, that was a classic understatement.
"Be Thou My Vision." This morning I thought, So many people talk of "vision." It usually has to do with their "ministry," their desires and goals for their personal lives. We should all "revisit" such. But I can tell you that nothing expresses my desire for "vision" better than this song.
Our text today says it so clearly to us all, "....And You give them drink from the river of Your pleasures." Worship with this song yesterday and today has been, "of Your pleasures." Jesus tells us of His, "river of...pleasures," when He invited all who were thirsty to come and drink of the Water which is Jesus Himself. "If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink....As the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water." May you and I drink, "....from th[is] River of [Jesus'] pleasures", the rest of our life. What great preparation for "the life to come."
Father, in Jesus' Name, I want no other "vision" than You. Amen.
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