{"id":433,"date":"2012-02-27T19:09:37","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T03:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teach4god.com\/OTS\/?p=433"},"modified":"2014-04-02T05:34:54","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T12:34:54","slug":"psalm-129","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/2012\/02\/27\/psalm-129\/","title":{"rendered":"Psalm 129"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Psalm%20129&amp;amp;version=NASB\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Psalm 129<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another <a href=\"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/2012\/02\/11\/introduction-to-the-psalms\/\">Song of Ascents<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_2_0_19_13303495031995867\">Verses 1-4-The Psalmist is letting us know what the nation has gone through in their existence (since their youth when they were birthed\u00a0at the exodus). They have been beaten, whipped, broke, and attacked. Yet, in all this, they have not been conquered (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=2%20Corinthians%204.8-9&amp;amp;version=NASB\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">2 Corinthians 4.8-9<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Matthew%2016.18&amp;amp;version=NASB\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Matthew 16.18<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_2_0_19_13303495031995878\">Verses 5-8-These verses represent the malediction on those who decide not to follow God&#8217;s ways. Essentially, the curse is on those who are doing the persecuting in verses 1-4.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_2_0_19_13303495031995773\">When God allows us to be\u00a0plowed by those around us, how do we react? We can react negatively and not see His hand in it and become bitter or angry. We can see His hand at work and still complain with bitterness and whining. We can see His hand at work and seek to understand what the ultimate purpose is and how we might glorify Him in the midst of it all. Which do you choose?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When God allows us to be plowed by those around us, how do we react? We can react negatively and not see His hand in it and become bitter or angry. We can see His hand at work and still complain with bitterness and whining. We can see His hand at work and seek to understand what the ultimate purpose is and how we might glorify Him in the midst of it all. Which do you choose?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,114],"tags":[126],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-daily-studies","category-psalms","tag-corinthians","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions\/436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}