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• Please use one of the prompts below to get your journaling started.

  • Explore your fears and what’s behind them.
  • Write about a relational conflict you are experiencing.
  • List out all that you are grateful for.
  • Recall a significant reaction, conversation or event.

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Bible Passage: Psalm 50

A Psalm of Asaph.

¹ The Mighty One, God the Lord,

    speaks and summons the earth

    from the rising of the sun to its setting.

² Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,

    God shines forth.

³ Our God comes; he does not keep silence;

    before him is a devouring fire,

    around him a mighty tempest.

⁴ He calls to the heavens above

    and to the earth, that he may judge his people:

⁵ “Gather to me my faithful ones,

    who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!”

⁶ The heavens declare his righteousness,

    for God himself is judge! Selah

⁷ “Hear, O my people, and I will speak;

    O Israel, I will testify against you.

    I am God, your God.

⁸ Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you;

    your burnt offerings are continually before me.

⁹ I will not accept a bull from your house

    or goats from your folds.

¹⁰ For every beast of the forest is mine,

    the cattle on a thousand hills.

¹¹ I know all the birds of the hills,

    and all that moves in the field is mine.

¹² “If I were hungry, I would not tell you,

    for the world and its fullness are mine.

¹³ Do I eat the flesh of bulls

    or drink the blood of goats?

¹⁴ Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving,

    and perform your vows to the Most High,

¹⁵ and call upon me in the day of trouble;

    I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.”

¹⁶ But to the wicked God says:

    “What right have you to recite my statutes

    or take my covenant on your lips?

¹⁷ For you hate discipline,

    and you cast my words behind you.

¹⁸ If you see a thief, you are pleased with him,

    and you keep company with adulterers.

¹⁹ “You give your mouth free rein for evil,

    and your tongue frames deceit.

²⁰ You sit and speak against your brother;

    you slander your own mother’s son.

²¹ These things you have done, and I have been silent;

    you thought that I was one like yourself.

   But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you.

²² “Mark this, then, you who forget God,

    lest I tear you apart, and there be none to deliver!

²³ The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me;

    to one who orders his way rightly

    I will show the salvation of God!”

Questions to help us go deeper

Reflect on the portrait of God depicted in these passages.

• What is He like?
• Reflect on the ways you have experienced this aspect of God.
• Are there ways that your current view of God needs to be corrected or refined through today’s passage?
• Praise God for who He is.

Prayer