Bible Studies

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Lesson eighteen encouraged us to walk the path and we will be protected by God’s strength. Lesson nineteen provided instruction on the nature of wisdom that warns as well as enlightens. The cycle of action, thought and emotion is carried on here in lesson twenty where we find inspiration, trust and rejoicing.





20. He Inspires His Own

The Lord will hear you in your day of trouble; the name of the God of your fathers will defend you. He will send out help from his fortress, and strengthen you with his power. The Lord remembers all your efforts and what you had to give up. It is true. He will give you what you need, and you will become what you have helped others to be.

Heaven will rejoice in your attainment, because your success will inspire others. We have seen how the Lord takes care of his own; how his strength passes to us. Some trust in the inventions of men, but we will use the name of the Lord our God. They will fall even as we are lifted up. Our King hears us when we call.





We find reassurance here that the Lord will hear us in our time of need and send help. He will strengthen us and remember our trials. This path we are on is a living thing, it responds to our needs as they arise. The work has already been done and all we ever needed to do was simply believe. We will get what we need and so we can know what we need: it will be what we are getting.

This psalm is the emotional third part of our sixth cycle of three, but it is also the heart of the last six lessons taken together. We have been seeking a path but we have found that the path was also seeking us. The question we asked was answered, we found a turning point and an emotional attachment between the path and our life stories. God is revealed as a force of nature and we join with Him when we are a part of this living path.

Heaven will rejoice and our success will inspire others. Nothing really changes, yet everything is different. What is difficult is more productive than what is easy. All our actions plant a seed that will grow into our future path and so we help those around us because it is the best thing to do, for them and for us. Trust is still required because not everything is done all at once. This path through the psalms is only beginning and our growing in faith is a lifelong journey but our fear for the outcome grows less.

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