“familiarity breeds contempt”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bible stories and lessons can become familiar in such a way that we miss some of the fresh impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Psalm 23
Comforting in the very worst time(s).
Read Psalm 23 also when you’re not in a disaster, and let familiarity breed inspiration to walk close to The Shepherd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Psalm 51
Take time to deal with sin\u2010\u2010\u2010we must not get so familiar that we miss the gravity of sin.
Pleas of repentance:
\u2010\u2010\u2010reality, truth,
—broken, desperate, restored,
—clean, right, free, forgiven.
Then,
It’s not a one-time deal—because we fall again, we sin again.
Read Psalm 51 also when you’re not in a disaster, and let familiarity breed inspiration and conviction to walk close with His Spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Create in me a clean<\/span> heart, O God; and renew a Right<\/span> Spirit within me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cast me not away from Your Presence; and take not Your Holy Spirit from me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Restore unto me the joy of Your Salvation; and uphold me with Your Free<\/span> Spirit.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “familiarity breeds contempt” Bible stories and lessons can become familiar in such a way that we miss some of the fresh impact. Psalm 23Comforting in the very worst time(s).Read Psalm 23 also when you’re not in a disaster, and let familiarity breed inspiration to walk close to The Shepherd. Psalm 51Take time to deal with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8297,"href":"https:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8294\/revisions\/8297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}