God Never Fails & His Word Never Fails -Psalm 37:37 - Episode 109

 

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Jan is the  author of the new book “A 60-Day Prayer Journal for Parents” & the audio course "Psalm 91- Pray It & Believe"

Well hey there,  thanks for checking out the podcast today. In this episode of The Burt (Not Ernie) Show we are concluding our look into the promises we discover in Psalm 37, an awesome psalm penned by David (and I really do mean awesome, that’s an accurate word to describe Psalm 37). 

 

Today we are going to look at just one verse and I’d like to share a bit with you from C.H. Spurgeon and E.M. Bounds. Ready? Let’s jump in.

 

You’re listening to The Burt (Not Ernie) Show, part of the Spark Network, now playing in the Edifi app. I’m your host, Jan L. Burt, and this is episode number 109.

 

Psalm 37, verse 37 - from the Amplified and the CSB.

 

Amplified says this: Mark the blameless man (who is spiritually complete) and behold the upright (who walks in moral integrity); there is a (good) future for the man of peace (because a life of honor blesses one’s descendants).

 

Isn’t that a remarkable verse?

There are so, so many times when I just am flat in awe of how much is packed into one single verse from the Bible. It literally astounds me!

There are answers for us in all the things we face daily. And regarding this verse, I’m going to share how one verse can literally change the course of our lives. My hubby and I, we had quite an experience some years back. Now, I’m not going to dive into details because, according to what the Apostle Paul lays out very, very clearly in the New Testament, sharing details just is not right. So, in a broad and very generic sense, we had a situation and it involved our work in ministry. Things got difficult, went kind of sideways, you might say. I’m not gonna say we were right and someone else was wrong but I will say that we were deeply hurt by all that took place. This was on the heels of my mothers death, just boom right on top of that. We knew the Lord wanted us to handle this time with decency that would bring honor to His name. That was far more important than “winning” or than being understood or any of that kind of thing. And honestly, the body of Christ is precious to the Lord, and we really truly did choose to simply be silent, bite our tongues, and rather choose to be totally misunderstood and possibly even slandered and maligned rather than put some kind of a mark on God’s big C church. The bride of Christ is to be spotless upon the day of Jesus’ return, right? We did not want to put any kind of spot where Jesus says, “Keep that spotless.” Basically, we applied the words of Psalm 37 verse 37 here in the Amplified. We wanted to walk in moral integrity, we wanted to be the man, and the woman, of peace and to live a life in honor, in spite of our own feelings and hurts and mourning and all the things that come with hard times. And if you did not know this, being a disciple of Jesus comes with hard times! Some of those hard times involve fellow Christians. I feel bad sharing that with you if you did not already know that. And if you’ve been on the other end of those sorts of hard times, let me tell you that I am so sorry, and I wish it were different, but please please do not walk away from the church or from Jesus, no matter what. And no matter how things shook out, even if there was like a fit of anger and words were said, by you or by others, that you wish you could take back, even if you shared too much with people (because when we are really hurting and start to talk, it can come out like a torrent, like a flood, and things can come out that are so far beyond what we ever intended to share… our pain needs to come out, and the Lord is always always there to listen as we just share honestly with him, David did it all the time we find in the psalms) but if you maybe went too far in what you said and it became gossip, guess what? There’s grace for that! And healing and God’s goodness and His great love. Don’t let any of those things keep you from the Church or from the Lord, please. We can’t always be perfect, or why would we need a Savior? But we are being sanctified continually, so we can expect to get better and better and become more and more like Jesus. So, there is no condemnation here on this podcast - because who am I to condemn someone when there is now therefore no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. So, in this case, we bit our tongues and felt like we would rather be misunderstood than to even hint at causing any type of division or gossip or anything like that, and we were in grief, so we knew our words could become a flood pretty quickly, so we kept qu