Seize the Moment – Day 1099
Pray for the Foundations!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Tuesday, March 21.
What are the burning issues of today’s world? The list is long, but it is important to do this exercise and then to pray through it. As you pray for the world and the nations, what’s most pressing upon your heart as you consider the future? The question asked by David in Psalm 11 was identified as the burning question of his day, in 1939, by the great Bible teacher Arno C. Gaebelein.[1] What was that burning question? In Psalm 11:3, David asked, “If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”
In 2005, another great Bible teacher James Montgomery Boice reiterated David’s burning question for his day, “What shall we do when the laws are not upheld, when morality is undermined and evil sweeps on unchecked? What shall we do when the Bible is undermined and its teachings disregarded – when even churchmen seem to support the rising tide of secularism?”[2] I add my humble voice to these Bible teachers by agreeing that David’s three-thousand-year-old question is the burning issue of our day – What happens to our democracy, when we can no longer engage in civil discourse because we vehemently disagree with one another on the foundational issues of our human identity, such as gender, sexuality, and marriage?
What can the righteous do when the foundations are being destroyed from right under our feet? David’s response was to take refuge in the Lord (1). Never forget the hope you have in Christ as you face the uncertainties of the future – “For the Lord is righteous, He loves righteousness; the upright will behold His face” (7; cf. Matthew 5:8).
Seize the moment and pray Psalm 11, meditating upon the promises of God secured for you in Jesus Christ. Build your life on His teachings, so as the storm rages, your life will “not fall, for it had been founded on the rock” (Matthew 7:24-27).
God bless you!
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FOOTNOTES:
[1] James Montgomery Boice, Psalms 1–41: An Expositional Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2005), 91.
[2] Ibid.