We Will Remember

We Will Remember
On our darkest night... in our deepest trouble... we MUST remember and praise God for WHO He is, and all that He has done. (Click on the link to hear the song)

Psalm 77

New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Comfort in Trouble from Recalling God’s Mighty Deeds.

For the choir director; according to Jeduthun. A Psalm of Asaph.

77 My voice rises to God, and I will cry aloud;

My voice rises to God, and He will hear me.
² In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord;
In the night my hand was stretched out without weariness;
My soul refused to be comforted.
³ When I remember God, then I am disturbed;
When I sigh, then my spirit grows faint. Selah.
⁴ You have held my eyelids open;
I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
⁵ I have considered the days of old,
The years of long ago.
⁶ I will remember my song in the night;
I will meditate with my heart,
And my spirit ponders:

⁷ Will the Lord reject forever?
And will He never be favorable again?
⁸ Has His lovingkindness ceased forever?
Has His promise come to an end forever?
⁹ Has God forgotten to be gracious,
Or has He in anger withdrawn His compassion? Selah.
¹⁰ Then I said, “ It is my grief,
That the right hand of the Most High has changed.”

¹¹ I shall remember the deeds of the Lord;
Surely I will remember Your wonders of old.
¹² I will meditate on all Your work
And muse on Your deeds.
¹³ Your way, O God, is holy;
What god is great like our God?
¹⁴ You are the God who works wonders;
You have made known Your strength among the peoples.
¹⁵ You have by Your power redeemed Your people,
The sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.

Pressing On...

Yes, it really has been a year and a half since we have posted on this blog.  It has been a very busy time in our lives, with lots of changes.  Austin is about to finish his junior year at North Greenville University, Heather is soon to graduate from high school, and we are in the process of starting a new phase of work and ministry. 


Yes, life is full of changes.  Most of us (self included) don't really like change.  We resist it at every turn.  The older we get, the more stationary we tend to become.  But the fact is that, while we serve a God who never changes, He is always calling us to move on.  To be dynamic.  To follow His lead, wherever He might take us.  How sad would it have been if the Apostle Paul had stopped at planting one church.  Had only mentored one pastor.  Had only taken one missionary journey.  Had decided to rest in the successes (or despair over the failures) of the past. 


Listen to his heart, as he writes to the Philippian church...  

"But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ.  Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ  and be found in Him...  

Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me.  

Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead,  I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus."

Forgetting those things which are behind - let's press on.