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In 2025, I found myself
wrestling with frustration that

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God was not giving me joy.
And then God very patiently told

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me what was actually happening.
It wasn’t that he was

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withholding joy, it was that I
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What followed was an invitation
to spend 30 days looking at 30

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passages on Joy and turning it
into a devotional called

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Rejecting Joy No longer.
You’d think I would have learned

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that coming into 2026, I was
wrestling with hope.

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God, why are you making me so
hopeless?

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And God very patiently let me
know the reality.

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He wasn’t withholding hope.
I was rejecting it.

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And so now here I am, spending
30 days looking at 30 passages

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on hope.
And my hope is that this

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encourages you.
One thing that’s different this

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year is I felt like God was
inviting me to be publicly

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transparent with my processing.
To actually go live on social

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media, pull out a random verse,
and then read and process

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through it on camera.
This isn’t me coming to you as

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an expert on hope, but me coming
to you honestly as someone

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wrestling with hope.
And by witnessing that some of

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you might feel less alone, may
feel seen and understood, may

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end up being encouraged in a way
that is far deeper than the best

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platitude.
So join me as I spend 30 days

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navigating 30 passages on Hope.
This is day 30.

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You’re listening to episode 237
of the Where Did You See God

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podcast.
Let’s find out what the

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penultimate passage will be.
Oh my God, We just think that

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you were God and you were good.
And we thank you for this

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journey through hope.
And we acknowledge that there

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are many, many questions.
And where there aren’t

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questions, they’re still
hesitation, resistance, fear, or

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just simply a sense of not
knowing how to move forward.

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And so we ask that the Holy
Spirit would guide us to today’s

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verse.
That you would to guide our

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minds to look past our own
understanding, to guide our

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hearts to be open to the
immeasurably more than we can

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ask for, imagine, and we ask for
age to hear as per my holy name.

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Amen.
Back to Psalm, folks.

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Psalm 130, verse five.
I wait for the Lord, my soul

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waits, and in His Word I hope.
I wait for the Lord, my soul

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waits, and in His Word I hope.
Psalm 130, it’s 8 verses.

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We can do this, We can do this.
This is a song of a sense.

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Out of the depths.
I cry to you, Lord, Lord, hear

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my voice.
Let your ears be attentive to my

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cry for mercy.
If you, Lord, kept a record of

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sins, Lord, who could stand?
But with you there is

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forgiveness, so that we can with
reverence serve you.

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I wait for the Lord.
My whole being waits, and in His

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word I put my hope.
I wait for the Lord more than

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the Watchmen wait for the
morning.

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More than Watchmen wait for the
morning.

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Israel, put your hope in the
Lord, For with the Lord is

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unfailing love, and with Him is
full redemption.

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He himself will redeem Israel
from all their sins.

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There’s a lot in this passage
and just 8 verses, so let’s go

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from the start.
The psalmist is in a hard place.

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Out of the depths I cry to you,
Lord.

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Lord, hear my voice.
Let your ears be attentive to my

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cry for mercy.
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He throws me into the mud and
I’m reduced to dust and ashes.

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Man interesting in His great
power, God becomes like clothing

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to me.
He binds me like the neck of my

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garment.
He throws me into the mud and

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I’m reduced to dust and ashes.
I cry out to you, God, but you

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do not answer.
I stand up, but you merely look

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at me.
We spent some time in Job.

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Job was definitely in the
depths.

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He was definitely struggling and
at that point he does not feel

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like God has shown up yet.
The psalmist is also waiting for

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God to show up, but Job felt
like God was just throwing him

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in the mud.
A Psalm 42, seven, which we read

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deep cause to deep in the roar
of your waterfalls.

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All your waves and Breakers have
swept over me, consumed by the

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water.
The depths of the water

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overwhelmed.
Lamentations 355 I called on

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your name, Lord, from the depths
of the pit you heard my plea.

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Do not close your ears to my cry
for relief.

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You came near when I called you
and you said do not fear man.

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Even those 3 verses we went on a
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You got the spectrum in the
middle.

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You have the awareness of being
in the depths deep, cries deep

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and the roar of your waterfalls.
All your waves and Breakers

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crash over me, and then on
either side you have everything

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from Lamentation saying God
heard the cry and said don’t

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fear and then Job saying you
threw me in the mud and didn’t

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listen to me.
The depths are an exceptionally

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hard place and it is a reality
based on those verses that we

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can feel like we are crying out
and have not yet heard from God.

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Then the psalmist acknowledges
that God actually doesn’t owe us

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anything.
If you, Lord, kept a record of

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sins, Lord, who could stand?
I wouldn’t have a right to cry

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out, nor much less stand in the
depths.

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But with you there is
forgiveness so that we can with

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reverence, with reverence, serve
you.

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So the psalmist is in the
depths, and he wants God to hear

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his cry for mercy.
He knows he doesn’t deserve it,

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but God offers forgiveness.
And So what is his response in

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light of that situation?
In light of that reality?

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I wait for the Lord.
My whole being waits, and in His

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word I put my hope.
We’ve talked about waiting

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before.
The SV says my soul waits.

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The NIV says my whole being
waits.

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Very intriguing that they define
them in different ways.

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I don’t know why it
differentiates between my soul

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weights and my whole being
weights.

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We could dig into the Hebrew,
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But I will say, we have talked
about this notion of it’s easy

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for us to think about ourselves
in a singular way, but we’re

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called to love the Lord our God
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and strength.
And so we’ve talked about how

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there’s these different elements
of who we are and how we

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function, that they’re meant to
work in collaboration in oneness

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and unity so that when one or
multiple elements struggle to

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understand God’s reality, at
least one is there to pull the

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whole being back into alignment.
So the SV says I wait for the

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Lord and then clarifies my soul
waits.

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The NIBI wait for the Lord.
My whole being waits.

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It’s saying it’s not just I’m
waiting for God like the there

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are elements of me that I need
to name are waiting for God.

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It’s not just me physically
looking at my watch and

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wondering when God will show up.
There is a holistic patience for

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God.
And then in His Word I put my

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hope.
Folks, that’s what we’ve been

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doing the last 30 days.
For the last month we have been

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going to His Word for hope, to
understand what to hope for and

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how to hope for it.
We’ve been living out this

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verse.
This would have been a great one

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to end on, but who knows?
Well, better turn it over.

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I’m a solid.
I don’t know what tomorrow’s

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will look like, but this is a
great verse to close out this

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time for sure.
In His word we have been putting

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our hope.
I’m glad we read the fuller

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passage because I I think this
might even still be the

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signature.
I’m looking for my phone and I’m

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looking at my phone as I look
for my phone.

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It might be my closing signature
on my junk e-mail account.

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I have a Hotmail account.
Some of y’all remember Hotmail

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had that thing for over 2
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Golly, in that e-mail I used to
have Psalm 130 verse 6 at the

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very least, if not 5 and 6,
which is I wait for the Lord

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more than Watchmen wait for the
morning more than Watchmen wait

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for the morning.
I don’t know what I was going

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through then.
I probably felt like it was a

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huge deal.
I can’t imagine what it was to

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feel like.
The things that I’ve gone

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through recently.
What I’ve appreciate this

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passage is there’s something
very poetic about the

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repetition, something clearly
very intentional about the

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repetition.
I wait for the Lord more than

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Watchmen wait for the morning
more than Watchmen wait for the

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morning.
You had individuals who would

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have watches throughout the
night, maybe stand on the city

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wall or out the at the outskirts
of the camp to ensure that the

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people were protected as they
slept in their most vulnerable

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space of being unconscious.
There were individuals,

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Watchmen, who would stand watch
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What were they waiting for?
One or two things.

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From a pessimistic negative
standpoint, they were waiting

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for danger.
They had to keep watch and wait

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in case danger showed up.
And maybe in the hardest moments

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or the times of the most threat,
that’s what they’re waiting for

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is at some point the other shoe
is going to drop.

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At some point the enemy’s going
to strike.

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At some point something bad is
going to happen and I have to

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watch for it.
The other option of what they

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watch for is what this verse
mentions.

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I wait for the Lord more than
Watchmen wait for the morning

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more than Watchmen wait for the
morning.

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The other option is the Watchmen
just wait for the morning.

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They do their shift.
They aren’t afraid because maybe

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they don’t think there’s a
threat, or maybe they’re

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confident that God will protect
them.

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But either way, they’re just
waiting out the clock, waiting

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up for the sun to pop up.
And then they say, all right, my

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watch is done.
Now I get to sleep.

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I feel like this is what these
passages of hope have invited us

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to, to not wait for the other
shooter drop, wait for the

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hardship, wait for the enemy.
But to wait for the morning that

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yes, it is dark and the sun will
rise.

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What does it look like for us to
have that kind of waiting in our

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hearts when we’re in hardship?
To focus not on the threat, but

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on the inevitable light.
There’s another word in here

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that stood out to me before, but
in reading it today, I just

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glossed over it until I just
read it now.

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It’s the word more or more than
if you want both, I wait for the

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Lord more than Watchmen wait for
the morning.

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So what does that mean?
The Watchmen were required to

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wait.
It was their responsibility to

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wait.
They were going to follow

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through on waiting like that.
Waiting for the morning was a

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non negotiable for the Watchmen.
It was going to happen.

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And the psalmist is saying I
wait for the Lord more than

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that.
That could mean a lot of things.

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It could speak to the importance
of the waiting, being more

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waiting for God than waiting for
the end of the watch.

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Speak to how God is more
amazing, more powerful than the

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morning.
Really it’s the the psalmist

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positioning.
Perhaps it’s the psalmist saying

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it’s it’s more than obligation
for him.

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It’s more than a responsibility.
It’s a delight because again,

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it’s not just that he’s waiting
for the Lord, it’s that his

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whole being waits.
It’s that his soul, it’s that

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all of him is waiting for the
Lord.

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It’s not a singular thing.
It’s his entirety.

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His reality is consumed with
this waiting is directed towards

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his position around this
waiting, but the other pieces

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and in his word I put my hope.
So this waiting for the Lord is

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also joined with hope, and then
it follows again, Israel, put

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your hope in the Lord, for with
the Lord is unfailing love, and

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with him is full redemption.
So this is the other piece.

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For the Watchmen, if the sun
rises, that means that there was

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no enemy attack and that they
get to go to sleep, that their

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watch is done and they’ll return
to the watch the next night.

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For the psalmist, what does the
waiting lead to?

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Unfailing love, Full redemption.
So his waiting for the Lord also

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carries with it an excitement
and an anticipation.

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It’d be like if the Watchmen
waiting for mourning, maybe they

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were positioned up somewhere in
the Northern hemisphere where

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you have these long periods of
time without the sun.

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And let’s say you had gone for
days, weeks, months without

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seeing the sun and you’re
waiting for it.

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And then finally, the sun just
comes just above the horizon and

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it the sun like, pierces your
eyes.

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You feel the warmth after so
much coldness, the light after

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so much darkness.
I feel like those Watchmen would

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feel different in the hours
leading up to that moment.

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The anticipation they had.
They’re like, after so long,

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finally, finally, we will see
the sun again.

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I feel like that is a piece of
this more than the Watchmen is

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that the psalmist recognizes
that the waiting for the Lord is

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leading to an unfailing love and
full redemption.

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It starts off out of the depths.
I cry to you and it’s the sense

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that I’m in a hard situation.
Help me out.

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But that’s not where it in it in
saying that there’s something

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greater than just being removed
from hardship that awaits that

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yes, he wants to be out of the
depths.

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But even more, it’s not just
that I want to be out of

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trouble.
It’s that God has promised

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unfailing love and full
redemption.

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So as we wait, it’s not just
waiting for God to fix the

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problem.
We’re not waiting for the

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inevitable hardship.
Our invitation is to wait for

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the Lord.
And who is the Lord?

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One who is full of unfailing
love and in whom there is full

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redemption, with whom there is
forgiveness.

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That’s who we’re waiting for,
the arrival of this God, of this

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Lord.
We’re waiting for that.

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Yes, we’re in the depths.
Yes, we don’t want to be in the

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desk, but we’re waiting for Him
to arrive.

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If He arrives and he doesn’t
even take us out of the depths,

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maybe He even joins us in the
depths.

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Who cares about the depths?
It’s Him.

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He is the reason He is the whole
point of all this.

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Much rather be where He is, even
if it means hardship, than out

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of hardship and away from Him.
So we have an invitation to wait

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in this type of a way and to put
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In His word I wait for the Lord,
my whole being waits, and in His

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word I put my hope.
Psalm 135 I wait for the Lord,

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my soul waits, and in His word I
hope.

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Father God, we thank You that
You are God and You are good.

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And we acknowledge often times
when we cry out, we’re just

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wanting to get out of hardship.
And you are inviting us through

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your word to understand that
getting out of hardship is a

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small thing.
It’s a light and momentary

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trouble.
You’re inviting us to something

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immeasurably more to be in your
presence, even if that presence

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comes with trouble, that being
in your presence is worth

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waiting for.
So help us to learn to wait for

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you in that way.
That’s great.

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Just one precious name.
Amen.