Don't Follow your Heart - Audio
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Wow, what a week. I just want to start with this. This is Psalm 46 in the Common English Bible. God is our refuge and strength. I help always near in times of great trouble. That's why we won't be afraid when the world falls apart. When the mountains crumble into the center of the sea, when it's waters roar and rage, when the mountains shake because of its surging waves. If you don't know, in the ancient world, mountains were seen as like a connecting, like pillars almost, keeping the sky from crashing into the land and rooting the land in place. And so if a mountain were to be shaken and destroyed, what that would mean is that the sky would literally fall and the ground that we walked on to be cracked and we'd all end up falling into an abyss. And so when the Psalmist says that's why we won't be afraid when the world falls apart, he's being really, really literal. Like the world could fall apart. The mountains could crash and burn and it wouldn't change that we will not be afraid because God is our refuge and strength. Going on, moving down to verse eight, come see Yahweh's deeds, what devastation he has imposed on the earth, bringing wars to an end in every corner of the world, breaking the bow, shattering the spear, burning chariots with fire. It's interesting, and the Psalmist says, devastation. What devastation does he bring to the earth? Well, his devastation is actually peacemaking. What devastation he has imposed on the world, he brings wars to an end. He breaks the bow, shatters the spear, burns chariots with fire. And then one of my favorite verses in the whole Bible, be still and know that I am God. In the sea, be it translates, that's enough. Now know that I am God. I am exalted among all nations. I am exalted throughout the earth. Yahweh of heavenly forces is with us. The God of Jacob is our place of safety. If you heard that, that's enough or in the older New King James, be still. If you were to translate that into a colloquial English, the way that we actually speak, it would be shut up. Shut up.
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