November 30, 2024 • Holly Culhane, Psalms for Shepherds, P4S • Psalm 137
This week we are in Psalm 137, a psalm that some say is “no doubt one of the most troubling and difficult psalms in the Psalter”!
This song is nine verses of “remember” and “forget”. The psalmist, most likely a Levite, is asking God in this prayer to help the Jewish people remember Jerusalem, the precious city they inhabited before Babylon invaded, ravaged, and destroyed, taking many of the people captive. He also prays for consequences should his people forget their city, and to remember that what Jerusalem represents in indeed their greatest joy.
You will hear the psalmist say, “they sat down and wept”, something many of us have done in the most tragic, frustrating, or severely disappointing moments in our lives.
This psalm is also a song of prayer for severe retribution on the Babylonians. It is believed a Levite wrote this psalm after he had returned home from captivity in Babylon with the remnant of God’s people who could return to this great city. It is interesting that 20 years after that return, Babylon was destroyed.
Timothy and Julie Tennent, in A Meditative Journey in the Psalms, wrote this:
“The psalmist had experienced extraordinary pain, ridicule, mocking, violence, and scorn…He [then] remembered that somewhere in the writings of his own people, God had promised that he would not let such violence go unpunished, and that he would pay back to them as they had done. Thus, he does exactly what he has been taught to do in the face of such evil and wickedness and injustice. He prays! He does not take vengeance into his own hands or strike back with comparable violence for violence. No, he laments, and he prays. He prays for God to take that action, and he trusts that God indeed will do just that. This is his only hope for not going mad in all that he has to endure.”
The dear psalmist does exactly what we must do: lament our past sufferings, and celebrate that our God is loyal, worthy of worship, praise, and our complete trust.
So, dear fellow under-shepherd, what past sufferings have you endured as a shepherd leader, as an influencer in your home, your church, your business, or your community? Have the sheep of your pasture harmed you, have they betrayed you, have they hurt you more deeply than you thought possible? Don’t hesitate to lament, to sit down and weep at the pain you’ve felt, the sense of loss you didn’t think possible, or the betrayal you experienced. Then seek to the follow the Father’s leading from there. Let him keep score. Let him seek justice. Believe me, He will do it far better than you or I ever could.
Thank you for joining me, and thank you for loving, multiplying, and championing the shepherding message. May you live deeply into your calling this week.
Psalm 136 | Psalms for Shepherds
November 23, 2024 • Holly Culhane, Psalms for Shepherds, P4S • Psalm 136
This is Holly Culhane with Presence Point and welcome to our Psalms for Shepherds podcast.
This week we find ourselves in Psalm 136, a psalm that calls worshippers to a posture of gratitude.
Psalm 136 is 26 verses in length, and in every verse the same refrain is repeated – His faithful love endures forever.
The refrain is meant to stir remembrance in us of God’s merciful, gracious intervention in our own lives. It is also meant to settle in us the deep truth that God’s love for you… and for me… … will never end.
As the psalm develops, it becomes clear the LORD’s supremacy never makes Him remote. Instead, it demonstrates that His steadfast love is active and effective for His people.
We know this God – Yahweh, the God above all gods and Lord above all lords – is also our Shepherd and our example of how to lead and influence others. He is, of course, our perfect example of how to love.
Psalm 136 paints a picture of God’s magnanimous works of creation and acts of providence. It tells of our Shepherd’s deliverance and care for His people, His judgment on their enemies, and His goodness to all.
It also reminds us without question that our Good Shepherd’s love… a GOOD shepherd’s love… endures. In the words of Peter Santucci, author of Everyday Psalms, “His. Relentless. Love. Never. Stops.”
Dear under-shepherd, take a moment before the loving gaze of your Shepherd and check your heart toward the sheep entrusted to your care. Is your love for them relentless? Is it faithful? Is it enduring?
Sometimes, sheep are hard to love. Sometimes, we find ourselves lacking the capacity to love as we would like to. If this is the case for you today, I encourage you to pause and go to the Father. Talk to Him about it. You will find Him faithfully present and faithfully loving you – no matter what.
I leave you with that thought today. Remember that shepherding others well will always first require sitting at the feet of the Good Shepherd, allowing His love to wash over and into and through us, so that we may then offer that same love to others.
Psalm 135 | Psalms for Shepherds
November 16, 2024 • Holly Culhane, Psalms for Shepherds, P4S • Psalm 135
This is Holly Culhane with Presence Point and welcome to our Psalms for Shepherds podcast.
This week our focus is on Psalm 135, which begins a series of psalms that emphasize praising our God. This particular psalm’s emphasis is on praising our God for who He is and what He has done.
The psalmist begins this psalm with praise to our Lord and ends with praise to our Lord.
In between those moments of praise and worship, we are reminded that our Lord:
is good
that we should celebrate His name with music
that He chose Israel as His own special possession
that He is greater than any other god
and that He is in complete control of the heavens and the earth, even the seas and their depths, the clouds, the lighting, and the wind.
This psalm clearly reminds us of five important facts.
Our Lord is God. He chose us.
Our Lord is sovereign and does what He pleases.
Our Lord is compassionate and vindicates His people.
Our Lord is the true and living God and He cares for us, and
Our Lord should be praised because He is present with us!
Dear fellow under-shepherd, no matter the circumstances you face, no matter how difficult the sheep in your life seem right now, no matter your health, your wealth, or the decisions that stand before you, you can praise the Lord right now! And know that He hears you and that His provision, His protection, and His presence are with you, enveloping you with every step you take.
May you live deeply into your calling this week to be an under-shepherd who praises our God, and may you communicate that attitude of praise to those you shepherd in every area of your life.
Psalm 134 | Psalms for Shepherds
November 9, 2024 • Holly Culhane, Psalms for Shepherds, P4S • Psalm 134
This week we close our time in the Psalms of Ascent with Psalm 134, the last of the 15 psalms intended for the ascension of the pilgrims to the temple in Jerusalem.
This last Psalm of Ascent, it seems, is specifically celebrating the pilgrims’ safe arrival in the Holy City and that they had fulfilled their duties and were now preparing to return to the cities in which they lived.
Psalm 134
Oh, praise the Lord, all you servants of the Lord,
you who serve at night in the house of the Lord.
Lift your hands toward the sanctuary,
and praise the Lord.
May the Lord, who made heaven and earth,
bless you from Jerusalem.
This benediction of the pilgrims’ time at the Temple, reminds us that we worship and serve a God that never sleeps. No matter whether night or day, we can praise Him. And He knows that we’re praising Him because He’s fully awake, alert, and on watch, shepherding us through every moment of our lives – if we let Him. In addition, this short psalm reminds us that our worship of our Almighty God should never end and that His blessings never stop.
The psalm ends with a blessing from our Creator, which so perfectly reflects what the priest would do when the pilgrims left the temple. As each worshipper would leave, he would say, “May the Lord bless you from Zion”, with the pronoun, “you” in Hebrew, being singular because the blessing of God is for each of us, personally.
Thank you for joining me. May you live deeply into your calling this week and shepherd well.
Psalm 133 | Psalms for Shepherds
October 26, 2024 • Holly Culhane, Psalms for Shepherds, P4S • Psalm 133
We continue this week in the Psalms of Ascent with Psalm 133. This psalm may be familiar to many of you, as David speaks candidly about the importance of unity -the word often translated as "harmony" in many Bibles - a timely reminder for our world today.
Psalm 133
How wonderful and pleasant it is when brothers live together in harmony!
For harmony is as precious as the anointing oil that was poured over Aaron's head, that ran down his beard and onto the border of his robe.
Harmony is as refreshing as the dew from Mount Hermon that falls on the mountains of Zion.
And there the Lord has pronounced his blessing, even life everlasting.
This psalm describes unity - harmony - as precious, refreshing. Is that not true?
This psalm is really quite self-explanatory. The question for us as shepherd leaders in today's world is this: Do we promote harmony? Do we encourage unity: Is our presence both "precious" and "refreshing"?
If not, what must we do to change it? What part of our heart do we need to give the Father access to so He can cleanse it? What behaviors or patterns do we need to discontinue, change, or fine-tune, so that, we are more harmonious, more unifying?
Thank you for joining me this week. I pray you live deeply into your calling to shepherd well all those you encounter.
Psalm 132 | Psalms for Shepherds
October 19, 2024 • Holly Culhane, Psalms for Shepherds, P4S • Psalm 132
This week, the journey through the Psalms of Ascent continues with a song that celebrates the Lord's faithfulness to David in several ways and can therefore, if we let it, remind us of God's faithfulness to us.
Verses 1 through 5 of this psalm recount David's request to build a house for God - a "sanctuary for the Mighty One of Israel".
Verses 6 through 10 recall how God allowed David to move the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem.
In verses 11 through the end of the psalm, the psalmist reminds us that God chose David's line for the throne, and that throne was situated in Jerusalem, a city of people, a priesthood, and faithful followers God swore to protect and make His own.
The psalm is a wonderful reminder of all God has done and has promised, but how do we apply it to shepherd leadership?... We need to do what David did.
We need to give God His rightful place;
We need to express to God our joyful worship;
We need to remind God of His faithful covenant; and We need to trust God for His bountiful blessings.
It seems so simple as we list those four requirements, but the practical application requires intentionality and a heart in tune with the Father.
Please don't let this day pass until you stop and consider...
How am I doing at giving God His rightful place - in every aspect of my life?
How am I doing at expressing to God my joyful worship?
How am I doing at reminding God of His faithful covenant, and in trusting God for His bountiful blessings?
Be encouraged to journal your thoughts. Set a reminder to review them. Take time every day to remember. It will deeply impact your ability to be a godly shepherd.
Psalm 131 | Psalms for Shepherds
October 12, 2024 • Holly Culhane, Psalms for Shepherds, P4S • Psalm 131
As we continue in the Psalms of Ascent this week, we turn to Psalm 131.
Charles Spurgeon described this song best when he said, “It is one of the shortest psalms to read, but one of the longest to learn.”
Psalm 131
A song for pilgrims ascending to Jerusalem. A psalm of David.
LORD, my heart is not proud;
my eyes are not haughty.
I don’t concern myself with matters
too great or too awesome for me to grasp.
Instead, I have calmed and quieted myself,
like a weaned child who no longer cries for its mother’s milk.
Yes, like a weaned child is my soul within me.
O Israel, put your hope in the LORD — now and always.
In this psalm, the themes of humility and contentment in the LORD are undeniable.
Anyone who has walked this earth and walked with the LORD for any length of time knows that both humility and true contentment are only developed through the trials, hardships, highs, and lows of a life of long obedience to Yahweh. In this psalm, King David shows us he learned this as well.
To continue to quote Spurgeon, the psalm “speaks of a young child, but it contains the experience of a man in Christ.” I agree. And it also puts my heart at rest and reminds me to cease striving.
Dear shepherd, let’s still ourselves and stop striving for self. Just as God’s Word says in another psalm - be still and know that He is God. After all, how can we shepherd well, submitting to the Father rather than self, if we are serving our desires and preferences, rather than God’s? How can we sacrifice for others, if we are self-focused?
Please take a moment to…
Pause in His Presence.
Reflect on His Presence, His Protection, and His Provision.
And whatever circumstances you face right now in your shepherding responsibilities, put your hope in Him.
He is God. He is all that we need. We can rest in Him. And we can wait on Him with hope.
Fellow sheep and under-shepherd, I encourage you to make Psalm 131 your prayer today.
Psalm 130 | Psalms for Shepherds
October 5, 2024 • Holly Culhane, Psalms for Shepherds, P4S • Psalm 130
This is Holly Culhane with Presence Point and welcome to our Psalms for Shepherds podcast.
This week, the journey through the Psalms of Ascent continues in Psalm 130. This song begins with the psalmist in deep distress on behalf of the Jewish community, crying out to God for mercy and, ultimately, placing his hope in the Lord.
His perspective changes because he knows that Yahweh will save them in His divine time. Based on that confidence, the psalmist then invites Israel to wait for the Lord.
I recently read the Christian allegory The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan. One of the lessons of the book is that a despairing state cannot actually hurt a pilgrim unless they choose to believe it, because it does not reflect the reality of the truth of our God.
That is exactly what the psalmist is illustrating in this song. When in despair – no matter the cause – we must cry to our God for help.
It is only He that can lift the burden, fill us with hope, and love us with a love that never betrays, never stops, never collapses, and never disappoints. He then allows us to do the same for others (even the most difficult of sheep).
He delivers us from the enemy, whether that enemy is ourselves, one or more of the sheep of our pasture, or the evil one himself. And that deliverance – the deliverance of our Good Shepherd – will come with abundance.
My friend, what or who represents despair in your life right now?
What do you need to do to move forward with hope?
Is there a burden you need to lay down at the foot of the cross to move from being a pilgrim with a heavy load to walking more freely?
Is there hope in the Lord you need to claim today, or His love in which you need to dwell, or His redemption and rescue that you need to celebrate?
I encourage you to take fifteen minutes right now to seek the Lord’s face, to jot down the answers to those questions, and to spend time with Him. His Provision, His Protection, and His Presence will sustain you.
Thank you for joining me this week. I pray that you lighten your load and live even more deeply into your calling as shepherd in the lives of those sheep entrusted to your care.
Psalm 129 | Psalms for Shepherds
September 28, 2024 • Holly Culhane, Psalms for Shepherds, P4S • Psalm 129
This is Holly Culhane with Presence Point and welcome to our Psalms for Shepherds podcast.
This week, the journey through the Psalms of Ascent continues in Psalm 129.
The psalmist begins:
"From my earliest youth my enemies have persecuted me.
Let all Israel repeat this:
From my earliest youth my enemies have persecuted me, but they have never defeated me.
My back is covered with cuts, as if a farmer had plowed long furrows.
But the Lord is good..."
As the psalmist continues, it seems he is saying, "Accept the suffering allowed by the Father. Be sure you benefit from that suffering. And commit your suffering to the Lord."
None of us are strangers to difficult times and remarkably hard circumstances. Some of us have suffered in far greater ways than others. The same is true of those of faith who lived thousands of years ago.
Charles Spurgeon prayed this prayer related to Psalm 129: "Lord, number me with Your saints. Let me share their grief if I may also partake of their glory. Thus, would I make this psalm my own and magnify Your name because Your afflicted ones are not destroyed, and Your persecuted ones are not forsaken."
We are not forsaken, fellow under-shepherd. Whether the difficulties we face are our own or those of the sheep of our pasture, our Good Shepherd is with us.
I pray that today you sense His presence, especially if you are in the midst of a challenging time, a difficult decision, or an especially hard circumstance.
And I pray that, with the psalmist, you can say: From my earliest youth my enemies have persecuted me, but they have never defeated me.
Psalm 128 | Psalms for Shepherds
September 21, 2024 • Holly Culhane, Psalms for Shepherds, P4S • Psalm 128
This is Holly Culhane with Presence Point and welcome to our Psalms for Shepherds podcast.
This week, the journey through the Psalms of Ascent continues in Psalm 128. This song may be a psalm of ascent, but it feels like a remarkable blessing to me!
One resource I read calls this psalm the “The Celebration of Fruitfulness”. Another speaks of how this psalm illustrates that “the godly will know true happiness because the Lord is with them, building their home life and blessing them across generations”.
That is exactly how it feels when you read this beautiful prayer and exhortation. When we fear the Lord, when we live as if He truly exists and as if He is who He says He is, when we follow His ways, we will be fruitful!
What a beautiful way of life! It is the life the people we shepherd need to see us demonstrate day by day in the tough, in the easy, in the extraordinarily exciting times and in the excruciatingly difficult times, when all is going well, and when it seems that everything around us is falling apart.
If that way of life seems foreign to you, fellow under-shepherd, you have some work to do. Maybe spend some time pouring your heart out to the Father, or journaling a prayer to Him, or asking Him why your joy and peace and the sense of blessing in your life have gone and what you need to do to see it return. Remember it is not our circumstances that dictate joy, peace, and blessing in our daily walk with Him, but rather, it is our time with the Father.
Thank you for joining me today, as we have looked at the blessing and promise and Psalm 128.
Psalm 127 | Psalms for Shepherds
September 14, 2024 • Holly Culhane, Psalms for Shepherds, P4S • Psalm 127
This is Holly Culhane with Presence Point and welcome to the Presence Point Psalms for Shepherds podcast. This week we continue our journey in the Psalms of Ascent with one of only two psalms attributed to Solomon - Psalm 127.
These five verses speak boldly about the importance of the WHY behind what we do and who we do it for - the importance of remembering that unless a house, or a family, is built with the Lord at the helm the effort is completely in vain.
Everything we do must be blessed by the Father. And that takes place when we allow Him to re-orient our identity and trust and re-establish Him as the primary identity of our life and the One in whom our deepest trust rests.
It is then that He often multiplies time, money, effort, and outcome.
That is how His economy works. He can take what seems inadequate from our human perspective and make it far greater than we ever imagined or hoped or dreamed into exactly what He wants it to be.
He can take our best, well-balanced efforts and provide maximized outcomes. The Father does not need us to work from early morning until late at night to a place of exhaustion to accomplish His goals because verse 2 of this psalm tells us that God gives rest to His loved ones. He intends us to have rest and peace and balance. Remember that day called the Sabbath?
The reality is that the result is always His anyway - what He knows is best and what He believes will best develop us and those we shepherd into who He wants us and them to be.
Success for us - in any area of our lives - will only be what the Father chooses to bless, and we must rest in that promise. He is enough and He alone is our primary source of identity, the One in whom we place all of our trust.
Dear fellow under-shepherd, I pray this is true of you and of me - that we will in fact truly rely not on ourselves and our ability to shepherd well, but on the Good Shepherd Himself to ensure we shepherd well those He has entrusted to our care.
Thank you for joining me this week.
Psalm 126 | Psalms for Shepherds
August 3, 2024 • Holly Culhane, Psalms for Shepherds, P4S • Psalm 126
This is Holly Culhane with Presence Point and welcome once again to our Psalms for Shepherds podcast. This week we continue our journey in the Psalms of Ascent with Psalm 126.
Although perhaps written as a corporate lament, there is much language of hope and joy in these six verses. Nearly every verse contains an expression of joy – laughter, images of restored fortunes, streams in the desert, and abundance of harvest.
However, we can also see in the song that the current state of the psalmist is not one of joy, ease, and abundance, yet he writes and sings in hope. Much like the hope we found in Psalm 125!
It was the looking back at God’s faithfulness, at what He had done in the past that allowed the psalmist and singers to proclaim in that moment that they were filled with joy.
The question we must ask ourselves is this: Do we live like this, dear shepherd? Facing the day as author Pete Santucci says, “like giddy dreamers whose dreams had actually come true”?, remembering God’s grace, His merciful love, the beauty in your life, and your standing in Christ no matter what may come?
The psalm is a reminder to remember… to remember the goodness of God.
The writers of the She Reads Truth Bible reading plan, The Psalms of Ascent, sum up Psalm 126 this way:
“This song uses the memory of hardships [and rejoicing] as encouragement to remember that joy is worth the journey. And with that hope, this song calls the singers to be confident God will continue to use sadness to bring a better joy as they press forward.”
Yes, the joy in Jesus is worth the journey through this world.
Today, do you need to be reminded of how in the past our Good Shepherd has kept and cared for you, or a loved one, or one or more of sheep in your life?
Pour out your prayer to Him, and may this psalm be a template for you.
Look back.
Choose praise and joy.
Lay your requests before Him with the confident expectation that He will certainly be faithful again. After all, He has promised it.
My prayer is that your sadness and mine, when it comes, will bring a better joy to us as we press forward, and that you find yourself held, hope-filled, and at peace in the presence of your Shepherd today.
Thank you for joining me this week. As you allow Jesus to shepherd you, may you shepherd well those He has entrusted to your care.
Psalm 125 | Psalms for Shepherds
July 27, 2024 • Holly Culhane, Psalms for Shepherds, P4S • Psalm 125
This is Holly Culhane with Presence Point and welcome to our Psalms for Shepherds podcast.
This week we are in Psalm 125, yet another Psalm of Ascent. This one wonderfully names the benefits that faith and faithfulness bring to God’s people.
This song mentions “those who trust in the Lord”, who are called good and upright. One translation puts it this way: “those whose hearts are in tune with God”.
And this song speaks of the wicked and refers to them as “whose scepter will not rest on the land allotted to the righteous”.
In the words of Charles Spurgeon, “Two kinds of men are always to be found, the upright and the men of crooked ways... When God is smiting the unfaithful, not a blow shall fall upon the faithful.”
It may not always seem like this last sentence of Spurgeon’s is true, but it is! For believers today, this promise will ultimately be fulfilled when God’s people from every nation, tribe, and tongue reign in the new earth. Ultimately, not a blow shall rest on the righteous.
It is that confidence that is what keeps followers of the Good, Great, and Chief Shepherd standing in moments where, in our humanness, we want to sink to the floor and crawl into a corner. It is then that we can have the confidence of verse 1 of this psalm: “Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides forever”. And, from verse 2: “As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the Lord surrounds his people, from this time forth and forevermore.”
And that, fellow under-shepherd, is what we must rest in today. No matter what is tempting to shake us, “even as the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the Lord surrounds” us.
No matter what wickedness is looming before us, it shall “not rest on the land allotted to the righteous”.
No matter what’s happening in our family, among our team members, in our organizations, or among the congregation, even as we lead in the most difficult of situations, we can stand firm, we can obey the father, we can continue to talk to and listen to him, and we can have hope in the God of the universe and every one of His promises.
Thank you for joining me this week. And thank you for the commitment you have made to shepherd well.
Psalm 124 | Psalms for Shepherds
July 20, 2024 • Holly Culhane, Psalms for Shepherds, P4S • Psalm 124
This is Holly Culhane with Presence Point and welcome to our Psalms for Shepherds podcast.
We continue this week in the Psalms of Ascent with Psalm 124, a psalm that remarkably describes what it would be like if God had not rescued the Israelites, and, as we apply it today, what it would be like if God did not rescue us over and over and over again.
This psalm begins with “What if the LORD had not been on our side?” and then repeats that same question to require the singers to ensure they do not pass over what David is teaching!
As the NLT Study Bible states, “The negative rhetorical questions emphasize the positive idea that the LORD was indeed on their side.” And, dear fellow under-shepherd, He is on our side, as well.
Personalize and camp on these questions for a moment:
What if the Lord had not been on your side?
Who or what would have swallowed you alive in their burning anger?
What waters would have engulfed you and the torrent overwhelmed you?
Whose teeth would have torn you apart?
What trap did our Father break to set you free?
You probably thought of specific circumstances as I asked those questions, circumstances that, as you look back upon them, cause you to sing your own song of thanksgiving because God did save you and the situation is behind you!
Just think of how many times the Good Shepherd has rescued you… and me, and we weren’t even aware of it!
Ecclesiastes 11:5 says, “Just as you cannot understand the path of the wind or the mystery of a tiny baby growing in its mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the activity of God, who does all things.”
He is infinite. We are finite. He is omniscient – all-knowing. We know only what He has chosen to give us the brain power to learn, remember, and understand, and what He has chosen to reveal to us.
Dear fellow under-shepherd, is there an attack, a trap, or something menacing that is exposing itself in your life right now? Or is there a circumstance like that in your future that you fear?
Allow me to encourage you to bring that situation before the Good Shepherd, praise His holy name for saving you in the past. Then rely fully on and bask in His PROVISON, His PROTECTION, and His PRESENCE this week.
Thank you for joining me.
Psalm 123 | Psalms for Shepherds
July 6, 2024 • Holly Culhane, Psalms for Shepherds, P4S • Psalm 123
This is Holly Culhane with Presence Point and welcome you to our Psalms for Shepherds podcast.
We continue this week in the Psalms of Ascent with Psalm 123.
Please join me in reading the four verses of this psalm.
I lift my eyes to you,
O God, enthroned in heaven.
We keep looking to the Lord our God for his mercy,
just as servants keep their eyes on their master,
as a slave girl watches her mistress for the slightest signal.
Have mercy on us, Lord, have mercy,
for we have had our fill of contempt.
We have had more than our fill of the scoffing of the proud
and the contempt of the arrogant.
The psalmist who authored Psalm 123 is a beautiful example to us of a sheep that fully trusts his shepherd. He looks to the Shepherd first, he waits expectantly, knowing the Shepherd has his back, and he trusts the Shepherd fully, communicating his frustrations with him.
There are many lessons in the four sentences of Psalm 123.
First, whenever we encounter troubles of any kind, look first by faith to the throne of God.
Second, look by faith to the hand of God.
Third, in the words of Bible commentator Warren Wiersbe, “Look for God’s mercy and grace.”
“If you find yourself laughed at and criticized because you belong to Jesus Christ,” Wiersbe wrote, “you are part of a very elite group, and you do not have to be embarrassed or start looking for a place to hide! There is grace available at the throne of grace from the God of all grace, so lift your eyes of faith to Him.”
Fellow under-shepherds, take heed to both the psalmist’s example and the commentator’s words: There is grace available at the throne of grace from the God of all grace.
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