Women in Fellowship and Encouragement

  W alking through the Psalms over these last three (3) weeks has been an amazing journey of surrender and rest as scripture leads and guides us into the green pastures and quiet streams of the Good Shepherd. Scripture has a powerful way of reorienting our hearts' posture and creates an earnest longing for the holy. It repositions our gaze heavenward, restrains distractions, and prohibits the beguilements of the worldly. As we've spent time reading, meditating, and praying, each Psalm has brought on fresh awareness of our thirst for the living God. In the flow of Lent, after confession and repentance comes a sweet resolution. Kneeling or lying bare before a just God, who invites us into holy fellowship with him through his son, empties us of ourselves. Hence an urgent need to be filled and consumed by nothing else but the presence and truth of God. This week's reading won't fail us in helping us cry out to our holy and all-satisfying God for him to quench our longings. ...