Daily Word/ How to Be Weird
Today’s Text: Psalm 119: 113-115
Today’s Song: I Surrender All
Notes:
This section teaches us how to be weird…in a good way. Here are the study notes:
- Set Apart (113–115)
- Supported (116–117)
- Serious (118–120)
What does it mean to be different?
Inward: what you love and what you hate: challenge- help us to love what you love and hate what you hate;
- hate the “double-minded” one’s; those who are divided; they are trying to make what is straight looked crooked; “a broken branch” trying to make murky what is clear;
- love: God’s teaching;
Upward: (114)
- You are my hiding place; where I run to for refuge; (the number of false refuges…
- Where I run for protection: not to my own record…rightness…others wrongs…we are masters at defense mechanisms;
Outward: (115)
- how to live among the wicked
- “keep: preserve; observe 2 words:
- 1. preserve: you are going to maintain the whole of it; (there is no more powerful way to be counter-cultural) are you willing to keep the whole? not just the parts that jour culture likes;
- 2. keep: not the whole of it, but the whole of me; fully keeping- all of me;