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Psalm 85:4-13  The Message

^4-7 Help us again, God of our help;
    don’t hold a grudge against us forever.
You aren’t going to keep this up, are you?
    scowling and angry, year after year?
Why not help us make a fresh start—a resurrection life?
    Then your people will laugh and sing!
Show us how much you love us, God!
    Give us the salvation we need!

^8-9 I can’t wait to hear what he’ll say.
    God’s about to pronounce his people well,
The holy people he loves so much,
    so they’ll never again live like fools.
See how close his salvation is to those who fear him?
    Our country is home base for Glory!

^10-13 Love and Truth meet in the street,
    Right Living and Whole Living embrace and kiss!
Truth sprouts green from the ground,
    Right Living pours down from the skies!
Oh yes! God gives Goodness and Beauty;
    our land responds with Bounty and Blessing.
Right Living strides out before him,
    and clears a path for his passage.

For Reflection
Sometimes we feel as though God has abandoned us.  Life seems bleak.  Darkness seems to have overtaken the light. We find it difficult to see God's hand in the world. 

It is not the time for lamentations, nor the time for wailing doubt.  It is the time for celebration.  It is the time to let joy drive out the fear of the unpredictable.  It is time to preform the living word in confidence of a bright future.  It is time for Love beyond reason to reign.

Pray

for the confidence in the promise of the Gospel.  Pray so that you can understand the darkness.  Pray so that you can predict the light.