He Has Heard My Voice
And My
Supplications
I love the LORD, because he has heard
my voice and my supplications. Because he inclined his ear to me, therefore I
will call on him as long as I live. The snares of death encompassed me; I
suffered distress and anguish. Then I called on the name of the LORD; “O LORD,
I pray, save my life!”
Gracious is the LORD, and righteous;
our God is merciful. The LORD protects the simple; when I was brought low, he
saved me. Return, O my soul, to your rest, for the LORD has dealt bountifully
with you.
For you have delivered my soul from
death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling. I
walk before the LORD in the land of the living. I kept my faith, even when I
said, “I am greatly afflicted”; I said in my consternation, “Everyone is a
liar.”
What shall I return to the LORD for
all his bounty to me? I will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name
of the LORD, I will pay my vows to the LORD in the
presence of all his people. Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of
his faithful ones. O LORD, I am your servant; I am your servant, the child of
your serving girl. You have loosed my bonds.
I will offer to you a thanksgiving
sacrifice and call on the name of the LORD. I will pay my vows to the LORD in
the presence of all his people, in the courts of the house of the LORD, in your
midst, O Jerusalem. Praise the LORD!
In this world, unless you are a
celebrity, your passing will soon be forgotten by all but a small circle of
relatives and friends. But Jesus showed us that God shares the sorrow and pain
of the bereaved, and that the death of the humblest believer causes His heart
great pain. God does not take our individual deaths lightly. He feels our pain,
He weeps with us, but He also knows we will all be reunited in heaven. God
shares in our sorrow.
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