The Upper Room Daily Devotional from The United Methodist Church of Nashville, Tennessee, United States for Friday, 13 October 2017 "Never too Old" by Doris Yeung - Psalm 92:1-15
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DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2017
Several months ago, another pianist joined our church choir, making four of us. I felt discouraged, useless, and humiliated. I asked God, “Am I supposed to retire at age 61?” Then, when my sister needed help after surgery, I decided to attend another church that had earlier hours for worship.
After only a month, I was told that this small congregation planned to start a choir. Immediately, I knew that God was calling me. I offered to be the pianist, and I have enjoyed participating in this choir ever since.
This change has not only helped me to understand the sermons better, since the language is my mother tongue, but I have enjoyed making new friends while also keeping in touch with friends at my old church.
From this experience, I have come to understand that as long as we are willing, God will guide us and prepare a way for us. No matter our age, if we listen to God’s calling, we can joyfully serve.
TODAY'S PRAYER:
Dear God, thank you for guiding us when we feel lost. Help us to remember that we can always serve — if we are willing. Amen.
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Psalm 92:1 (0) A psalm. A song for Shabbat:
2 (1) It is good to give thanks to Adonai
and sing praises to your name, ‘Elyon,
3 (2) to tell in the morning about your grace
and at night about your faithfulness,
4 (3) to the music of a ten-stringed [harp] and a lute,
with the melody sounding on a lyre.
5 (4) For, Adonai, what you do makes me happy;
I take joy in what your hands have made.
6 (5) How great are your deeds, Adonai!
How very deep your thoughts!
7 (6) Stupid people can’t know,
fools don’t understand,
8 (7) that when the wicked sprout like grass,
and all who do evil prosper,
it is so that they can be eternally destroyed,
9 (8) while you, Adonai, are exalted forever.
10 (9) For your enemies, Adonai,
your enemies will perish;
all evildoers will be scattered.
11 (10) But you have given me
the strength of a wild bull;
you anoint me with fresh olive oil.
12 (11) My eyes have gazed with pleasure on my enemies’ ruin,
my ears have delighted in the fall of my foes.
13 (12) The righteous will flourish like a palm tree,
they will grow like a cedar in the L’vanon.
14 (13) Planted in the house of Adonai,
they will flourish in the courtyards of our God.
15 (14) Even in old age they will be vigorous,
still full of sap, still bearing fruit,
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As long as I am willing, God can find ways for me to serve.
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