The Soul’s True Repose
Psalm 62
August 7, 2016
preached by Doug Cooper
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Time of Reflection Quotations
“He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.”
~ C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), British writer and Christian apologist
“Busyness serves as a kind of existential reassurance, a hedge against emptiness; obviously your life cannot possibly be silly or trivial or meaningless if you are so busy, completely booked, in demand every hour of the day…I can’t help but wonder whether all this histrionic exhaustion isn’t a way of covering up the fact that most of what we do doesn’t matter.”
~ Tim Kreider (1967-present), writer and cartoonist,
in a New York Times article
“People compete over being busy; it’s about showing status….there is a realization that their time on Earth is limited…Maybe that’s the attraction of busyness. If we never take a moment to stop and think, we don’t have to face that hard truth….And without time to reflect, our drive to show status can mean we create busyness even when it doesn’t exist…”
~ Brigid Schulte, contemporary author and journalist for The Washington Post
“We will have to work hard to rest.”
~ Kevin DeYoung (1977-present), American author, theologian and pastor
“A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.”
~ Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887), American clergyman,
social reformer, author and speaker
“A man may preach from false motives. A man may write books, and make fine speeches, and seem diligent in good works, and yet be a Judas Iscariot. But a man seldom goes into his closet, and pours out his soul before God in secret, unless he is serious.”
~ J. C. Ryle (1816-1900), English author and first Anglican bishop of Liverpool
Sermon Passage
Psalm 62 (NIV)
For the director of music. For Jeduthun. A psalm of David.
1 Truly my soul finds rest in God;
my salvation comes from him.
2 Truly he is my rock and my salvation;
he is my fortress, I will never be shaken.
3 How long will you assault me?
Would all of you throw me down—
this leaning wall, this tottering fence?
4 Surely they intend to topple me
from my lofty place;
they take delight in lies.
With their mouths they bless,
but in their hearts they curse.
5 Yes, my soul, find rest in God;
my hope comes from him.
6 Truly he is my rock and my salvation;
he is my fortress, I will not be shaken.
7 My salvation and my honor depend on God;
he is my mighty rock, my refuge.
8 Trust in him at all times, you people;
pour out your hearts to him,
for God is our refuge.
9 Surely the lowborn are but a breath,
the highborn are but a lie.
If weighed on a balance, they are nothing;
together they are only a breath.
10 Do not trust in extortion
or put vain hope in stolen goods;
though your riches increase,
do not set your heart on them.
11 One thing God has spoken,
two things I have heard:
“Power belongs to you, God,
12 and with you, Lord, is unfailing love”;
and, “You reward everyone
according to what they have done.”