For Your Sake We Face Death (Psalm 44 - Part 2 of 2)

Today's full One Year Bible readings:
Leviticus 24:1-25:46 ~ Mark 10:13-31 ~ Psalm 44:9-26 ~ Proverbs 10:20-21

As we finish Psalm 44 today, I can't help but notice how the worshiper is crying out to God, and through his pain, he is admitting that although he and his people love God they are still suffering. They are desperately longing for God to bring His rescue!

²² Yet for your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.

Psalm 44:22

This verse is quoted by Paul, in the his letter to the Christians at Rome, in the context of describing how nothing can separate us from the love of God. Today it is strikingly clear that Paul is saying even though we face suffering for the cause of Christ - and we will - and even though we face death to further his kingdom - and we will - nothing can separate us from His love!

³⁵Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? ³⁶As it is written:

"For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered."

³⁷No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. ³⁸For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, ³⁹neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:35-39

Today, as an act of worship, embrace this truth and rest assured that no matter what storms may come your way or trials you must face he's promised He'll always see you through!

I just found a pretty cool recording of a medley of two of my favorite worship songs along the lines of suffering and trust, "I Will Sing Praise" and "It is Well With My Soul". The video is from a church in the Philippines so there's a slight foreign accent, but I think that make it even more special to me. And, as with most church recordings, they're not necessarily professionally mixed and produced, but their hearts are definitely in it. Enjoy!