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    A Shelter in the Time of Storm: Meditations on God and Trouble
    A Shelter in the Time of Storm: Meditations on God and Trouble
    A Shelter in the Time of Storm: Meditations on God and Trouble
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    A Shelter in the Time of Storm: Meditations on God and Trouble

    By Paul David Tripp

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    Fifty-two meditations on Psalm 27 instruct and encourage believers to worship God through the ups and downs of life.
    Psalm 27 is a psalm of trouble and worship, of difficulty and beauty, of the evil of people against people, and of the mercy of God. Because of its honesty about life in this fallen world, Psalm 27 speaks into the life of every believer. At the same time it places joyful and self-sacrificing worship right next to the trouble that is the psalm's background theme. This juxtaposition makes Psalm 27 unique, interesting, practical, challenging, and encouraging.
    A Shelter in the Time of Storm takes readers through this roller-coaster-ride of a psalm in fifty-two brief and engaging meditations. These meditations are designed to fill hearts with a patient hope that grows stronger as the trouble-spotted days go by. Reflection questions at the end of the chapter make these meditations thought-provoking and practical.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCrossway Books
    Release dateMar 26, 2009
    ISBN9781433523281
    A Shelter in the Time of Storm: Meditations on God and Trouble
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    Paul David Tripp

    Paul David Tripp (DMin, Westminster Theological Seminary) is a pastor, an award-winning author, and an international conference speaker. He has written numerous books, including Lead; Parenting; and the bestselling devotional New Morning Mercies. His not-for-profit ministry exists to connect the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life. Tripp lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Luella, and they have four grown children.

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      A Shelter in the Time of Storm - Paul David Tripp

      Psalm 27

      The LORD is my light and my salvation;

              whom shall I fear?

          The LORD is the stronghold of my life;

              of whom shall I be afraid?

      When evildoers assail me

              to eat up my flesh,

          my adversaries and foes,

              it is they who stumble and fall.

      Though an army encamp against me,

              my heart shall not fear;

          though war arise against me,

              yet I will be confident.

      One thing have I asked of the LORD,

              that will I seek after:

          that I may dwell in the house of the LORD

              all the days of my life,

          to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD

              and to inquire in his temple.

      For he will hide me in his shelter

              in the day of trouble;

          he will conceal me under the cover of his tent;

              he will lift me high upon a rock.

      And now my head shall be lifted up

              above my enemies all around me,

          and I will offer in his tent

              sacrifices with shouts of joy;

          I will sing and make melody to the LORD.

      Hear, O LORD, when I cry aloud;

              be gracious to me and answer me!

          You have said, Seek my face.

          My heart says to you,

              Your face, LORD, do I seek.

              Hide not your face from me.

      Turn not your servant away in anger,

              O you who have been my help.

          Cast me not off; forsake me not,

              O God of my salvation!

          For my father and my mother have forsaken me,

              but the LORD will take me in.

      Teach me your way, O LORD,

              and lead me on a level path

              because of my enemies.

          Give me not up to the will of my adversaries;

              for false witnesses have risen against me,

              and they breathe out violence.

      I believe that I shall look upon the goodness of the LORD

              in the land of the living!

          Wait for the LORD;

              be strong, and let your heart take courage;

              wait for the LORD!

      Meditations

      1 | Life as a Student

      Teach me your way, O LORD,

      and lead me on a level path

      because of my enemies.

      PSALM 27:11

      Do you think that you’ve arrived? Do you tend to think that you’ve learned what you need to learn and now know what you need to know? Do you see yourself as having more answers than questions? Do your carry around a hunger to know? Do you want to understand more deeply and more fully? Do you have a humble, open, and seeking heart? Are you approaching life with the mentality of a student?

      Here is a prayer to be taught. Do you pray this? How often? I think there’s much pride of knowing and the accompanying mental lethargy in many of us. There was a time, in the early years of our faith, when we couldn’t get enough. We had a voracious hunger for truth and a lively fear of falsehood. We lived with the humbling realization that there was so much that we didn’t know. We loved walking through the gallery of God’s wisdom, taking in the treasures there. We loved listening to fellow students who were further along the path of wisdom than we. We loved to be pointed to nuggets of wisdom that could have come only from the mouth of the Divine. We loved to study the Word of God, to examine each phrase, comparing Scripture with Scripture. We could not get enough, we were not satisfied; we were students.

      But something happened along the way. Perhaps we got distracted by the physical pleasures of the created world and began to live more like tourists than students. Perhaps we got discouraged by the troubles of the world and felt our study was not helping us. Maybe we got sidetracked by our own purposes and plans and had little time left to be students. Or perhaps our hunger was blunted by assessments of arrival. Perhaps we came to think that we knew all that we needed to know.

      Yet, there are two reasons that remain to pray this prayer: depth and danger. Why would I pray to be taught again and again and again by the Lord? Because his wisdom is just that deep and vast. His wisdom has no boundary. His wisdom has no bottom. His wisdom has no ceiling. If for ten million years I would sit for twenty-four hours a day at his feet and listen, I would scratch only the very surface of the wisdom that is his. If I gave every day of my life to study only the wisdom that is captured on the pages of Scripture, I could study until my very last day and not have mined all the treasures of wisdom that are there. So, once more, I pray to be taught because the wisdom of God is just that deep.

      I also pray this prayer because I live in a world of danger. It’s a world where the sounds of falsehood echo more loudly and repeatedly than the sounds of wisdom. Living in human culture is like sit-ting in a twenty-thousand-seat arena just before the concert begins. Everyone is talking at once, a den of voices so loud and pervasive you can barely hear yourself think. Every day a thousand voices speak into my life and the vast majority of those voices have not gotten the flowers of their insight from the wisdom garden of the Lord.

      They tell me who I am. They tell me what life is about. They tell me how to invest my time. They tell me how to use my resources. They tell me how to conduct my relationships. They tell me what is true and untrue. They tell me what my goals should be. They tell me what the good life looks like. They tell me what I should be and do and want. They offer me a comprehensive system of wisdom that’s well thought through and attractive on many levels, but that competes with the true wisdom that can come only from God. It’s so easy to be taken captive. It’s so easy to have divine wisdom corrupted by human wisdom. It’s so easy to breathe in the polluted air of a culture that no longer actually thinks that God is, let alone that he is wise.

      So, with a lively acknowledgment of the vastness of the depth of God’s wisdom and a healthy fear of the germs of falsehood that are everywhere around me, I accept the fact that on this side of eternity I live in the middle of a raging wisdom war. So, I pray for the strength, protection, direction, and encouragement that can only be found when I am a student of the Lord. Morning after morning I bow my head and humbly pray, Lord, please teach me your way.

      Take a Moment

      1. If you were to live as a student, what changes would you need to make in the way that you approach your daily life?

      2. What, in your knowledge of God’s truth, do you need to investigate further and understand more fully?

      2 | Breathing Violence

      For false witnesses have risen against me,

      and they breathe out violence.

      PSALM 27:12

      Breathing out violence—perhaps no three words in Scripture more dramatically capture the powerfully damaging presence of sin than these. Imagine a human being, who was made in the image of God, made for loving worship of the Lord and loving community with others, getting to the place where he has fallen so far from God’s original intention that he actually exhales violence! You don’t have to look very far to see the dramatic damage that sin does to human beings: the high rate of divorce, the violence that is present in every major city in Western culture, the scourge of physical and sexual abuse of children, and something as common as the high level of conflict that exists in all of our relationships in one form or

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