You and I will inevitably muddle up our lives. In fact, we’ll do it multiple times over our lifetimes. We’ll make poor decisions, cave in to pressure, end up beset by circumstances, and even take matters into our own hands. And the whole thing will be muddled. Confusing. Bewildering. Unclear. It will be as if we’re covered in mud and unable to see our way clear. David got himself in such situations on multiple occasions. Last Sunday we looked at one such time in 1 Samuel 21:10-22:5, and our message this week in Psalm 34 is David’s song written about that incident. The theme is our gratitude to God knowing that he hears us in our muddleness, cares for us in our pain, teaches us in our ignorance, and makes promises to us about that day when all the mud is scraped off for good. It’s going to be a great Thanksgiving Sunday together.

Series: The Great Exchange

Todd Dugard

Message: 5 – From muddled to gratitude Part 2

Harvest Bible Chapel

Text: Psalm 34

October 13, 2024

What if today we were grateful for everything?

Charlie Brown

When I inevitably muddle it up…

…I thank the Lord that he listens to me (34:1-3)

James 1:2–4

…I thank the Lord that he cares for me (34:4-7, 15-18)

I thank God because he cares enough to be my...

(1) Protector

(2) Deliverer

(3) Watchman

(4) Counselor

(5) Advocate

(6) Defender

(7) Physician

Christ is the master of my fate! Christ is the Captain of my soul!

"Invictus" Redeemed -Jon Bloom

https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/invictus-redeemed

…I thank the Lord that he teaches me (34:8-14)

In this life I can never say, ‘I have arrived; it is finished; look at me—I am holy.’

Francis Schaeffer, True Spirituality

Disciple says we are people who spend our lives being apprenticed to our master, Jesus Christ. We are in a growing-learning relationship, always. A disciple is a learner, not in the academic setting of a schoolroom, rather at the work site of a craftsman.

Eugene Peterson, A Long Obedience in the Same Direction

…I thank the Lord for his promises to me (34:19-22)

John 19:33

Praise psalms - express our orientation;

Lament psalms - express our disorientation;

Thanksgiving psalms - express our reorientation.

Walter Brueggemann

simul justus et peccator

both saint and sinner

Martin Luther