April 6

Psalm 78 April 6 2014

The saying “Hindsight is twenty-twenty” is attributed to Billy Wider, the journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter and producer. The phrase means that everyone has perfect understanding after an event happens. It is easy to look back at history and see how we could have made better decisions.

In my lifetime, if I could go back to do it all over again, here are a few of the changes I would make:

 

1. I would spend more time in God’s Word.

2. I would have spent more time with my wife and children. I would have scheduled more fun stuff.

3. I would have started devotions with my kids when they were very young and not stopped until the day I sent them off to college... regardless of how they protested. I would even endure hunger strikes.

4. I would have moved to a discipleship model of the church in 1983.

5. I would have invested in Wal-Mart and Goggle stocks and sold them in April of 2008. This last one is a joke... if I would have become a millionaire it is likely I wouldn’t be writing this blog and my life would be completely messed up.

 

In Psalm 78 Asaph is reviewing the history of the nation and he had “twenty-twenty” vision as he looks back.    Here are four of his conclusions:

 

1. If we could do it over again, we would make discipling young people the highest priority of church.

            “So the next generation would know them, even the children to be born.”

    There is nothing as important as passing our faith on to the next generation. So what is your plan to teach

     the next generation?  We all need to be engaged in this mission.

 

2. If we could do it over again, we would celebrate and appreciate God’s faithfulness every day.  

            “Time after time he restrained his anger ...”

     What did you do today to celebrate God’s faithfulness?

 

3. If we could do it over again, we would place all of our faith in the WORD of God.  

            “for they did not believe in God or trust in his deliverance.”

    The victorious life is only found as we live believing the WORD of God. It is our faith in his word that   

    supplies the deliverance. Set aside your unbelief and trust totally in the WORD of God.

 

4. If we could do it over again we would KILL sin in our lives before it killed us.  

            “Fire consumed their young men and their maidens had no wedding songs.”

God doesn’t expect sinless perfection, but He does expect us to sin less! We should be progressing in our holiness. We live in a day when we joke about sin. But sin kills people and unless we strike first it will kill us.

 

Take a moment and reflect on your life. If you could go back and do it all over again, what changes would you bring into your life? 

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