Psalm
91 Prayed
What Jesus gave up to save me
Lord Jesus, you dwelt in the shelter of the Most
High
your
rest was in the shadow of the Almighty.
You could say of the Lord your
Father,
“You are my refuge and my fortress,
my
God, in whom I trust.”
You loved the Lord your God
with
all your heart, with all your soul,
with
all your strength and with all your mind,
and
you loved your neighbour as yourself.
And since you fully obeyed the Lord your Father
as
your God
and
carefully followed all his commands,
the Lord your God could have set you high
above
all the nations on earth.
All these blessings could have come upon you
and
accompanied you
since
you obeyed the Lord your God:
You would have been blessed when you came in
and
blessed when you went out.
The Lord would have granted that the enemies
who
rose up against you
would
have been defeated before you.
They would have come at you from one direction
but
fled from you in seven.
The Lord would have sent a blessing on your
barns
and
on everything you put your hand to.
The Lord would have made you the head,
not
the tail.
Since you paid attention to the commands of the
Lord
your God that he give you
and
you were and carefully follow them,
you would have always been at the top,
never
at the bottom.
For you did not turn aside from any
of
the commands your Father gave,
to the right or to the left,
nor
did you follow other gods
and
serve them.
Surely he would have saved you from the fowler’s
snare
and
from the deadly pestilence.
He would have covered you with his
feathers,
and
under his wings you could have found
refuge;
his
faithfulness would have been your shield
and
rampart.
You need not have feared the terror
of night,
nor
the arrow that flies by day,
nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness,
nor
the plague that destroys at midday.
A thousand would have fallen at your
side,
ten
thousand at your right hand,
but
it will not come have come near you.
You could have only observed with
your eyes
and
seen the punishment of the Wicked One.
For you made the Most High your dwelling—
even
the Lord, was your refuge—
then no harm would have befallen you,
no
disaster need have come near your tent.
Instead, when you became flesh,
and
made your dwelling among us,
you did not take upon yourself
the
glory of becoming a high priest.
Though you were rich,
yet
for my sake you became poor,
so
that I through you poverty might become
rich.
Although you were in very nature God,
and
you did not consider equality
with
God something to be grasped,
but you made yourself nothing,
taking
the very nature of a servant,
being
made in human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a man,
you
humbled yourself
and
became obedient to death—
even
death on a cross!
For you did not come to be served,
but
to serve,
and
to give your life as a ransom for many.
Thank you Christ for redeeming me from the curse
of
the law
by
becoming a curse for me,
for it is written:
“Cursed is everyone who is hung on a
tree.”
So when the devil led you to Jerusalem
and
had you stand on the highest point of the
temple.
He said “If you are the Son of God,
throw yourself down from here.
For
it is written:
“For he
will command his angels concerning you
to
guard you in all your ways;
they will lift you up in their hands,
so
that you will not strike your foot against a
stone”
Although at
any time you could have called on
your
Father,
and
he would have at once put at your
disposal
more
than twelve legions of angels,
you
answered the devil,
“The Scriptures say:
‘Do not put the Lord your God to the
test.’
Instead, for the joy set before you,
you
endured the cross,
scorning its shame,
and
sat down at the right hand of the throne
of
God.
And having disarmed the spiritual powers and
authorities,
you
made a public spectacle of them,
triumphing
over them by the cross.
This is how you chose to tread upon
the lion and
the
cobra;
to
trample the great lion and that ancient
serpent
who is the devil, or Satan.
“Because he
loves me,” said your Father, “I will
rescue
him from the grave;
I
will protect him, for he acknowledges my
name.
He will call upon me, and I will
answer him;
I
will be with him in trouble,
I
will deliver him and honour him.
With long life will I satisfy him
and
show him my salvation.”
And now the grace of God that brings salvation
has
appeared to all humanity.
You came into the world to save sinners —
of
whom I am the worst.
For this very reason, I was shown mercy,
so
that in me, the worst of sinners,
you might display your unlimited patience
as
an example for those who would believe
on
you
and
receive eternal life.
So your Father buried me in baptism,
and
raised me with you
simply through my faith in his power
who
raised you from the dead.
Col. 2:12 having been buried with him in baptism and
raised with him through your faith in the power of God, who raised him from the
dead
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Psalm 91 Prayed
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