From: "Phil Rembleski" <PHIl@rescuechurchofchrist.org>

To: "1111RESCUEMEMBERS"

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Sent: Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 5:25 AM

Subject: 3-19-25 THOUGHTS

3-19-25   THOUGHTS

This psalm makes sense to us in our present world doesn’t it?  Vileness is exalted among the sons of men.  But Lord... we know You will keep us!  Your plans are larger than this world, O God.  Your promises are forever and our hope is a living hope that goes beyond the grave!  Your words are pure words, O Lord.  One day, “the last will be first, and first will be last!”  

Ps 12:1-8    Help, LORD, for the godly man ceases to be, For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men.  2  They speak falsehood to one another; With flattering lips and with a double heart they speak.  3  May the LORD cut off all flattering lips, The tongue that speaks great things; 4  Who have said, "With our tongue we will prevail; Our lips are our own; who is lord over us?" 5  "Because of the devastation of the afflicted, because of the groaning of the needy, Now I will arise," says the LORD; "I will set him in the safety for which he longs." 6  The words of the LORD are pure words;  As silver tried in a furnace on the earth, refined seven times.  7  You, O LORD, will keep them; You will preserve him from this generation forever. 8  The wicked strut about on every side  When vileness is exalted among the sons of men.

My Prayer:
Be Lord over us, O God.  May the wicked cease from evil and turn to Your  pure words.   O Lord, help each of us to see our place in the scheme of things.  We are weak, O Father, and we seem so inconsequential.  But You make strength from weakness!  Strengthen us and empower our faith to the end.  As salt and light, bring us forth, O God.  You are to be praised from thankful hearts that believe!   In the name of Jesus,     Amen.