If
William Wyne
Psalms 124
{A Song of degrees of David.} If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say;
2If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us:
3Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:
4Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:
5Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
6Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.
7Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
8Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.
Have you ever stopped long enough and taken inventory of the divine ''ifs'' that have permeated and prevailed in your life? Not a casual or surface stopped, but a still moment where you sat with all your selves. The good self, the not so good self, the old self and the new self, the self that you desire to be and the self that you are.
Sometimes you need to sit with yourselves in the alone moments and as painful or shameful as it may be, just think about the divine ifs in your life.
The divine ifs are those places that you recognize that God had to circumvent what was going to happen or what should have happened. The divine ifs are those events and experiences where God took the potential of destruction, embarrassments, shame, out of the moment. When you think about the divine ifs, you borrow that line from Newton's hymn, ''through many dangers, toils, and snares, I have already come.
If it had not been for the Lord on our side...
The divine if is the difference between when I felt my self being pushed to a place that was not going to be pretty, but then I walked away or felt something pulling me back from an emotional melt down or explosion that I could have regretted for life.
The divine if is the difference between the diagnosis (what it is or appears to be) of the situation and the prognosis (how this ultimat ...
William Wyne
Psalms 124
{A Song of degrees of David.} If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say;
2If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us:
3Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:
4Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:
5Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
6Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.
7Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
8Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.
Have you ever stopped long enough and taken inventory of the divine ''ifs'' that have permeated and prevailed in your life? Not a casual or surface stopped, but a still moment where you sat with all your selves. The good self, the not so good self, the old self and the new self, the self that you desire to be and the self that you are.
Sometimes you need to sit with yourselves in the alone moments and as painful or shameful as it may be, just think about the divine ifs in your life.
The divine ifs are those places that you recognize that God had to circumvent what was going to happen or what should have happened. The divine ifs are those events and experiences where God took the potential of destruction, embarrassments, shame, out of the moment. When you think about the divine ifs, you borrow that line from Newton's hymn, ''through many dangers, toils, and snares, I have already come.
If it had not been for the Lord on our side...
The divine if is the difference between when I felt my self being pushed to a place that was not going to be pretty, but then I walked away or felt something pulling me back from an emotional melt down or explosion that I could have regretted for life.
The divine if is the difference between the diagnosis (what it is or appears to be) of the situation and the prognosis (how this ultimat ...
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