Hi Pastor John,
I was so glad to have been at the reading on Sunday morning. I love Psalm 119; it’s definitely one of the best. What I love the most about Sunday morning was Jesus helping me with something. In particular, helping me know God wrote through David. When you talked about Psalm 119, you explained how the Psalm is divided into 22, 8-verse segments, each segment starting with a new letter of the Hebrew alphabet. As soon as you said that I immediately began to think of how I’d been told in Christianity that much of the time, OT writings were written this way by man as a memory device. That was why I’d asked that question about whether David had written Psalm 119 on purpose!
After I’d asked that question I felt like a bit of a dummy, and then I began to think of how in Christianity, that was the way I’d been taught, and that influence was still in my heart – to think it was man, and not God. And overall, to be taught to never trust my feelings. That’s very sad to think of. But Jesus was there to help.
And then we all began to read, and you had us all read a segment each, and by the end of the reading, it turned out there was just the right amount of people there that morning to each read a section. That was exciting to me, coming down to the last few people and seeing that there would be the perfect amount of readers! But also that God had spoken to Jimmy T at the beginning, “Watch this” (I forget exactly). I was so glad to be there for that! I know that was a help to me. It was kinda like Jesus was letting me know! I know Jesus does many things at one time to help us, and that was him helping me. I’m so glad He woke me so early so I could be there! My prayer is that Jesus keeps removing that
Christian influence from my heart.
Jenny