July 3rd Church Notes

"Have You Ever Wanted To Quit?"

Psalms 73 wasn't wrote by David, it was wrote by Asaph, he was a praiser and a songwriter. He states that he knows God is good, but he feels like he almost lost his footing. He almost slips back into his old ways, just like when we feel like things get too hard and we wanna go have a drink or smoke. You ever felt like things were better before you turned your life over to Christ? But when you turned you life over now all Hell is breaking loose. In verse 3 he state he was envious of the foolish when he saw how prosperous they were. Its hard seeing the people who don't serve God doing better than we are and they aren't even living right. In verse 13 he asks, did I cleanse my heart in vain? But you gotta know that God doesn't work on our time but He is always on time. So u might thing you changed your way for nothing but God is working on you and making you a fisher of men, not of things. God chose you. In Verse 17, he states that all of his doubts were cleared up when he finally went to church and saw the destiny of the wicked. Verse 18 states that he notices that the wicked are actually the ones slippin, they are the ones slippin all the way to a cliff of destruction and instantly they will be destroyed. But we are heirs to the throne, and we are joint heirs with Christ. Christ is our Father.. And if they got it now, its prolly all they are going to get. We have so much more to get outside of the world. Knowing that our Father has everything in His hands, that means so do we. Just bc its not in our pockets doesn't mean its not in our possession. If Daddy got it, then we got it. God will supply all of our need according to His riches in glory. In verse 21, Asaph noticed how bitter his heart had been seeing the wicked prosper and he noticed it, and he recognized that God had continuously held his right hand and guided him through out his doubt. God will never leave you. With God holding your right hand, you will never get caught slippin... The wicked are the ones slipping to destruction... Not us. So no matter what hell we go thru here, this is not te end of our story, we are nothing but pilgrims on a journey to make it to heaven. He ends the Psalm saying that he recognized that all I ever needed was You, Lord.
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