May 15, 2016

Posted on May 16, 2016 by jgarrott

Psalm 61:2 From the ends of the earth I call to you,
I call as my heart grows faint;
lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

This verse is very familiar to me because of it being set to music, which immediately began running through my mind as soon as I read it. However, I haven’t thought about it that much otherwise. It has a few points that are certainly worth thinking about. The Japanese has a different order from the English, and starts with David’s statement that his heart is growing faint. It’s important that we acknowledge our need as we pray. Some “name it and claim it” people are so afraid of a “negative confession” that they can’t be honest, even with God. How foolish! God already knows our situation, so we’d better be up front about it. However, we have to recognize that God is far bigger than we are; He isn’t limited to our resources. That’s what the rest of the verse is talking about. There’s another interesting difference between the Japanese and the English. Where every English translation I’m aware of says, “Lead me to the rock,” the Japanese says, “Lead me to the top of the rock.” Whether that is significant I’m not sure. “The rock” is obviously a place of safety, and many other references indicate that it is God or Christ. The biggest point is that it is higher than David is. In other words, it is more powerful, it is more secure. Perhaps the Japanese puts it the way it does is because such a rock would be a fortress only if you were on it or in it; just standing beside it would still leave you vulnerable. Actually, that applies to Christ as well. There are people who in a sense come to Christ but never enter in. They might even be church members, but they haven’t really opened their hearts in repentance and love. As has been said, being in a church building doesn’t make you a Christian any more than being in a garage makes you a car. The New Testament talks a great deal about “in Christ.” In fact, my father’s doctoral dissertation was on that topic. However, he told me that he didn’t really know what it meant until after he was a missionary, PhD in hand, and had a powerful encounter with the Holy Spirit. We can’t really abide in Him until He abides in us, and He indwells us by His Spirit.

I hadn’t registered that today was Pentecost Sunday until I heard someone mention it yesterday, and since I’m not the one speaking this morning, there’s not a lot I can do. That’s a good thing, because I couldn’t make God pour out His Spirit in the first place! I have experienced God in power by His Spirit, but it’s not something I can make happen. However, I can walk in humility and purity, asking Him to pour His Spirit through me, and He is amazingly faithful. I must remember at all times that though I am weak and foolish, my God is neither of those things, and He loves me. I cannot save anyone, but God can use even me to save anyone at all. I am to focus on Him, abiding in Him in intimate fellowship by His Spirit, so that I may be fully available to Him at all times to be used however He desires, for His glory.

Father, thank You for incredible, gracious faithfulness. Thank You for being able to attend the 100th anniversary celebrations of the founding of Seinan Gakuin (a school encompassing preschool through doctoral programs) yesterday. Thank You especially that they focused so strongly on the words of the founder, C. K. Dozier: “Seinan, be true to Christ.” Thank You that they are coming back from the extreme secularism that so distressed me not so many years ago. I pray that You would pour Your Spirit out on faculty, staff, and students, so that the school would fulfill the vision of the many saints who have labored there, including my parents. Thank You. Praise God!

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May 14, 2016

Posted on May 16, 2016 by jgarrott

Psalm 55:22 Cast your cares on the Lord
and he will sustain you;
he will never let the righteous fall.

This verse immediately brings to mind 1 Peter 5:7. “Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.” At the same time, it brings to mind Psalm 91 and various other such passages. The Bible is very clear that God cares about us! Then, what about all the trials we experience? Even Old Testament saints didn’t have it easy, and the New Testament days had violent persecution. We are back to John 16:33. “’I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.’” Whatever we are going through, God does care, and He will bring it all to a good end. (Romans 8:28) To go back to our verse here, the NIV says “cares,” probably under the influence of the 1 Peter verse, but the Japanese and many English translations have “burdens.” Anxiety is a burden! We have expressions like, “take a load off my mind,” that acknowledge that. Frankly, if we try to carry it all ourselves, we will collapse. That’s why the Bible tells us to let God carry it. The Japanese in this verse uses an expression that means to yield, to give the other party both responsibility and authority. I don’t know that “cast” usually carries that much meaning, but I think that meaning is what is intended here. We tend to “place our burdens at the foot of the cross” (as preachers like to say) and then immediately pick them back up again! I say we, because though I am a preacher, I do it too. That’s why God repeats these instructions so many times throughout the Bible, so that we will have some chance at least of taking them to heart and following through.

This is actually a frequent struggle for me. I worry things over in my mind rather than stating the problem clearly, presenting it to God, and then taking my hands off of it. I know that’s what I’m supposed to do, because I tell people that in counseling situations all the time! However, in our humanity it’s not easy. The problem is twofold: my pride wants to come up with the solution myself, and my faith is too weak to trust God to have a solution that I perhaps can’t imagine. I’ve got to give those issues also to God! I can and must renounce my pride, and I can and must choose to trust God. If that is my heart, then He will supply everything that is necessary.

Father, this is certainly a lifelong journey. You have demonstrated Your faithfulness more times and in more ways than I could count, and yet I am so slow to learn. Help me indeed trust You totally, not in a passive way but in active obedience, so that I may be rid of the burdens the devil places on me and “run with patience the race that is set before me,” (Hebrews 12:2) to be and do all that You intend, for Your glory. Thank You. Praise God!

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May 13, 2016

Posted on May 15, 2016 by jgarrott

Psalm 54:4 Surely God is my help;
the Lord is the one who sustains me.

This basic understanding was at the foundation of David’s life. He went through a lot and he did a lot, but he was aware that it was God who got him through it all. As he wrote in Psalm 20, “Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.” (Psalms 20:7) Too many of us get far away from that simplicity of faith. We think that doctors heal us or the government rescues us or we accomplish things purely by our own strength and ability, not realizing that it is God, and God alone, who makes all those things possible. The Greeks called that hubris, pride that denies the need for the divine. It’s interesting that they had the word before they had the Gospel, the news of the greatest help God ever has or ever could give to mankind. With the modern secularization of society it’s no longer fashionable to follow James’ instructions: “You ought to say, ‘If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.’” (James 4:15) It used to be that people would add, “D.V.” to their plans when writing them. Those are the initials of Deus Volente, “if God wills,” in Latin. I have an Augustinian friar friend who does it even today, but it is certainly rare. Even Moses strongly cautioned the Israelites to “Remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth.” (Deuteronomy 8:18) Otherwise, they would be blinded by their own success, turn from God, and be destroyed. We need to pay more attention to David, Moses, and James even today.

I have certainly had my times of ignoring God, thinking that the abilities I have were independent of Him, and it has never turned out well. I am to be a faithful and active steward of all He has placed in my hands, but I am never to think for a moment that I could accomplish anything without Him. Even if “my arms can bend a bow of bronze,” I need to remember that “It is God who trains my hands for battle.” (Psalm 18:34) I am not to be cowed by any challenge, but remember that it is God’s power that will come through and not my own. I am to be careful to give God the glory for everything He does through me and help others understand that He can and wants to operate through them, too. That’s particularly important in the church, where so many want to leave everything up to the “professionals,” thinking they can’t really do anything. I think that over the years I have tended to do too much, not allowing church members to do things if I thought I could do them better. That’s just another face of hubris, forgetting that if God can use me, He can use them too.

Father, thank You for this strong reminder. Thank You that I won’t be preaching this Sunday, but allowing our recent seminary graduate to do so. Keep me from being judgmental about his message and/or his delivery. May I hear from You through him, and be the encouragement and mentor to him that he needs, so that this church may be built up as You desire and intend, for Your glory. Thank You. Hallelujah!

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May 12, 2016

Posted on May 13, 2016 by jgarrott

Psalm 42:5 Why are you downcast, O my soul?
Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
for I will yet praise him,
my Savior and my God.

This refrain, which appears again in verse 11 and in 43:5, is very familiar, but I just noticed something in the perhaps more literal Japanese translation. It says, “I will praise the salvation of His face.” That doesn’t click immediately, but going back to some Davidic Psalms (this one is by “the Sons of Korah”) the point comes across that simply being with God is salvation. We forget that sometimes! We are anxious and distressed only to the degree that we fail to be at rest in Him. The world is full of things to upset us, but when we fix our hearts on our unchanging Rock, we have stability that is available no other way. It’s been several years since I heard a presentation by an American psychologist about the great increase in mental illness because of people being unable to handle the rate of change in the world today, and just this week I was talking with a Japanese psychologist who was saying the same thing, though he was saying “stress” rather than “rate of change.” There simply isn’t enough stability in the world today to keep us on an even keel if we don’t have something bigger, more solid, to depend on. Writing that, Jesus’ story of the two builders came to mind. (Matthew 7:24-27) It’s not a question of whether storms will come; they will. The question is rather whether we will have the foundation necessary for us to be able to withstand them. People want to know how to abide in God’s presence, but Jesus said it very clearly: “If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you.” (John 15:7) The whole Upper Room Discourse is filled with references to letting the Word of God abide in us, and being obedient to it. When we “hide His Word in our hearts,” (Psalm 119:11) we experience an intimacy with Him that gives stability even in the most violent of storms.

Recently I have been very disturbed by what presidential politics has been revealing about the spiritual state of America, but this applies there as well. If I will fellowship with God through His Word, I will know that He always has the last answer, and it’s a good one. It may often be different from what my imagination would paint, but it will always be better. There is no possible way I could even keep track of all that is going on even in one city, much less a nation or the whole world. God not only keeps track, He is sovereign. He allows some pretty horrible things simply because of His choice to give us free will, but that doesn’t mean He’s abdicated His throne. Over 20 years ago I was lying in bed thinking, “There are so many things I wish were different,” when God spoke up and said, “How do you think I feel?” I was totally blown out of the water! I need to remember that evil is never the last answer, and I should rest, relax, and rejoice in my Lord and my God.

Father, thank You for this reminder. Help me not forget it! You have had to point it out to me so many times over the years, because I am so prone to focus on things other than You. Thank You for the message You spoke through me on that very subject just this last Sunday. Help me live out the truth You speak through me, so that all of Your purposes for me may be fulfilled, on Your schedule and for Your glory. Thank You. Praise God!

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May 11, 2016

Posted on May 12, 2016 by jgarrott

Psalm 39:7-8 But now, Lord, what do I look for?
My hope is in you.
Save me from all my transgressions;
do not make me the scorn of fools.

It is always interesting to be struck by verses I had not previously underlined. David has just been talking about the brevity of human life on earth, and here we see his response to that reality. I love the way the Japanese expresses verse seven: “Now, Lord, what shall I wait in hope for? You are my hope.” He then goes on to acknowledge his sinfulness, asking to be saved and not to be made the scorn of fools, that is, those who say there is no God. (Psalm 14:1) It is no wonder David has been held up as an example to all believers, despite his very real failures. God isn’t pleased with formal religion, He is pleased with hearts that turn to Him in humility and faith. (Isaiah 57:15 and many more) This world can get pretty hopeless at times, but when God Himself is our hope, we can get through anything. However, we cannot be presumptuous, but rather repent immediately of sin and walk in the humble assurance of His grace.

I think the current state of America has been most damaging to my hope recently. It certainly looks like America is coming under God’s judgment, and that we could well be fully into the narrative described in Revelation. However, even if that is the case, or especially if that is the case, I should be filled with hope, because God Himself is my hope, and not any human system, political or otherwise. It is sad indeed that such a large percentage of Americans are enthusiastic supporters of manifestly ungodly politicians, of both major parties, but that is sad, not hopeless. My hope is not in a resurgence of America, but in the establishment of the Kingdom of God. That will not come by political means or even by religious means, if religion is defined as human activity. Rather, it will happen by the sovereign will of God, through His children who are fully submitted to Him. I need to be sure of my submission, of my focus, so that I will be useful to Him rather than in the way. I must not define in my mind what He is to do, and so miss what He actually is doing. I want my life to be a testimony and not a laughingstock, so that as many as will may join me in God’s kingdom.

Father, thank You for Your grace and for Your faithfulness. Thank You that when You are truly my hope I have absolutely nothing to fear. Help me stand against every temptation to anxiety but trust You completely, so that all of Your plans for me may be fulfilled, for Your glory. Thank You. Praise God!

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May 10, 2016

Posted on May 11, 2016 by jgarrott

Psalm 35:3 Say to my soul,
“I am your salvation.”

I doubt very much that Psalm 35 is very many people’s favorite Scripture. However, as an article I ran across just yesterday in the Internet said, any time we read the Bible we need to ask, “What does this teach me about God?” If we will do that, even passages like Leviticus and Numbers can be channels of real blessing. This Psalm is a protest to God about treacherous enemies, but this phrase really caught my eye. It shows clearly that David was very aware of God as objective reality; he didn’t think it was his own imagination talking to him, and it wasn’t something he had worked up. Atheists down through the centuries have maintained that all religion was a product of human imagination. I can’t say that imagination hasn’t played a part in some of the forms of religion, even within Christianity, but God Himself is objective reality. I am often amazed at the ignorance of God that I see expressed even by ostensible Christians. Rather than get into the Bible themselves, they have gone entirely by what one preacher or another has said, and the result is often a horrible mess. If we start with the basic premise that God is real and that He has given us the Bible to tell us about Him, then a lot of the junk should fall away. Like David, we need to ask God to speak to us, to assure us that He is our salvation and to show us the way we should go. As John said, the Holy Spirit is available to teach us, if we are open to Him. (1 John 2:27) John was present in the Upper Room when Jesus said, “The Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.” (John 14:26) We need to get into the Word and ask the Holy Spirit to bring it to life in our hearts.

I had the incredible advantage of growing up immersed in the Bible, in a household that loved and served God. That, with a lifelong habit of daily devotions, has given me a familiarity with the Word that too often I take for granted. I find I often say things that seem so obvious to me as to go without saying, and people around me react as though I had said something unusually profound. That still bothers me! I am dismayed at the level of spiritual blindness I encounter. I am not to give up, but remember that I too still have much to learn, and consistently speak the truth in love in all humility. I am to ask God to speak to me, as David did, and I am to ask Him to speak to those to whom I minister, whether it is through me or otherwise. If they will learn to hear from Him, believing that He really does love them enough to speak to them and teach them personally, then my job is done.

Father, thank You for the privilege of speaking Your words. However, I desire even more that each of my hearers would learn to hear You directly. May my words always point them to You and not to me, so that in faith they may enter into the fellowship with You for which You created them, for their infinite blessing and Your glory. Thank You. Hallelujah!

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May 9, 2016

Posted on May 11, 2016 by jgarrott

Psalm 32:5 Then I acknowledged my sin to you
and did not cover up my iniquity.
I said, “I will confess
my transgressions to the Lord”—
and you forgave
the guilt of my sin.

This verse is one of the most important that David ever wrote, and he wrote a lot! He had discovered the same principle that John wrote so memorably: “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.” (1 John 1:9) David did not know of the birth, life, and atoning death of Jesus (though he prophesied the crucifixion in amazing detail in Psalm 22) but he had discovered that repentant confession brings forgiveness. The Catholic Church institutionalized confession, which wasn’t necessarily bad in itself, but by formalizing it in a number of ways it removed much of the sincerity for a lot of people. Without repentance, confession can be bragging! Sometimes we do need to confess our sins to our brothers and sisters in Christ, (James 6:16) but that is certainly not limited to priests. We need to confess first of all to God, and then to people as He directs. When we have sinned against a particular person or group, often we need to confess to them, but sometimes the confession will do more harm than good, so we need wisdom. That said, many of the major revivals in human history have at least started with open confession of sins. Revivals in China, Wales, and America immediately come to mind. God responds to genuine repentance, and we must never forget that.

One of the biggest benefits of being raised by a father who had absolute honesty as a foundational principle was that honesty before God has always seemed to be a given for me. I’ve always known I couldn’t fool God. That doesn’t mean I haven’t managed to fool myself! However, when I have come to my senses, talking to God about what I have done has come easily. The danger there lies in taking it lightly, which I must never do, because sin is sin, and must be dealt with in genuine repentance. That doesn’t mean that confessing sin to others has been easy! Since I know that God already knows everything I do it’s not hard to confess to Him, but in my humanity I fear the reaction of people. However, I have found that those who matter think more of me for my honesty, and those who think less don’t really matter. I am coming around to Paul’s position on that point, expressed in 1 Corinthians 4:1-5. Any time the Holy Spirit shines His light on an issue in my heart or actions I need to confess it immediately to God and then, as He directs, to others.

Father, there are no words to thank You enough for Your forgiveness. Thank You for loving us so much as to send Your Son to die for us. Thank You that He intercedes for us as one who has been through the same temptations and so can identify with us, even though He didn’t yield to the temptations. Help me be more effective in sharing the marvelous truth that forgiveness is available, so that more and more may repent and believe, for their salvation and Your glory. Thank You. Hallelujah!

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May 8, 2016

Posted on May 11, 2016 by jgarrott

Psalm 17:14, 14 O Lord, by your hand save me from such men,
from men of this world whose reward is in this life.
And I—in righteousness I shall see your face;
when I awake, I shall be satisfied with seeing your likeness.

This appears to be a very clear reference to eternal life, at least for the righteous, and it’s a beautiful one. First it speaks of people of this world whose inheritance is life in this world, and then it speaks of “when I awake,” that is, from death. David seems to be saying that his enemies are pretty pathetic, because they have nothing better to look forward to than this life. That’s pretty remarkable, when Jesus had not yet been resurrected to demonstrate victory over death. And then there is the last part, which people who don’t enjoy fellowship with God really can’t understand at all: just seeing God will be the greatest reward, and complete satisfaction. I see lots of cartoons that imply that heaven is pretty boring, but they are certainly the works of people who have never tasted God in this life. The attitude of anyone who has tasted God is going to be that expressed in the song, I Can Only Imagine, which talks about getting to heaven. As John and Paul both said, there is much we don’t know, but what we do know is pretty wonderful. (1 John 3:2-3, 1 Corinthians 13:12) There is a lot in this world that can really drag us down, but if our hope is beyond this world we can have peace and joy in the middle of anything.

I will never forget a time when I was in a small prayer meeting with three brothers in Christ and the awareness of God, and the sheer joy of it, was so intense that I felt that one more drop and my physical body would give up, and I had to ask the Lord to back off a bit. When I write it like that it doesn’t seem to make much sense, but I know what I experienced. As David said, just seeing God’s face will more than compensate for anything negative whatsoever. Paul put it this way: “For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.” (2 Corinthians 4:17) I know that my current, temporal mind can’t grasp the fullness of what awaits me when I am done with physical limitations, but I know that God is love, (1 John 4:8) and His plans for me are incredibly good. “Incredible” means “unbelievable,” but by the grace of God I do believe, though I can’t begin to grasp the fullness of it all. I am never to fear anything on this earth, because I know that it is totally insignificant compared to what awaits me in my Father’s presence.

Father, thank You for the assurance of heaven. There is indeed so much that seeks to drag me down in countless ways. Help me lift my eyes from all the junk and fix them on Jesus, (Hebrews 12:2) so that You may fill my heart, mind, and spirit with Your Spirit, washing out all the dirt and preparing me for unhindered fellowship with You, for Your glory. Thank You. Hallelujah!

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May 7, 2016

Posted on May 8, 2016 by jgarrott

Psalm 6:1 O Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger
or discipline me in your wrath.

I think my head must have been taking a vacation when I chose the passages for this list on prayer, because I just entered “pray*” as a search term and went with what turned up. There are many prayers in the Bible that don’t include that word! David in particular addressed many of his Psalms to the Lord, which makes them prayers whether he used that word in them or not. Any Psalm that starts with “O Lord” is a prayer! John Denver’s song, Rocky Mountain High, has a line that actually describes the sort of prayer life we should aspire to: “Talk to God and listen to the casual reply.” The irony there is that John Denver gave little evidence of having a personal relationship with Jesus Christ himself. We should be aware that God always hears us, but that our hearts need to be humble and submitted before Him for there to be real fellowship. The Bible uses the phrase, “God heard me” meaning that a request was granted, but that’s a very limited meaning. Actually, there is nothing that God does not hear, simply because He is God. Today we tend to say, “God answered me” with the same meaning, but that too is inaccurate. Sometimes God’s answer is, “No.” “God granted my request,” would be more accurate. I think Paul’s admonition to “Pray without ceasing” (1 Thessalonians 5:17) is talking about being aware constantly that God is listening, not just to our words but to our thoughts. Vocal prayer has great value in focusing our thoughts, as well as in praying in unity with others, but you can’t literally be talking constantly (whatever jokes some men might make about some women). However, you can be aware that God is listening even to all your thoughts, and live in grateful appreciation of that reality.

As I have written before, I grew up in a home where prayer was as natural as breathing, and I think that came from this awareness. I wish my awareness of God’s omniscience had led me to more consistent obedience! Today, even as I deal with my own lapses in obedience, I seek to lead others into the intimacy with God that He desires and for which He created us. It can be a pretty frustrating task! Very few people are comfortable with the idea of God hearing everything they say or even think, because they don’t have a good grasp of the atoning work of Jesus Christ. When we believe in Him, we really are children of God, as the New Testament talks about again and again. As human fathers we often fail to listen to our children, but as the perfect Father, God never fails at all. I have to correct people’s image of what a father really is before they become genuinely comfortable with talking with God. Actually, I can’t do that at all in my own wisdom and strength, so I have to depend on the Holy Spirit to reveal God’s love to people’s hearts. Only then will they delight to talk with Him.

Father, thank You for this further expansion of how to talk about prayer. Like John, I do desire that every one of Your children discover all that position means. (1 John 3:1) Help me delight to operate in that position fully myself, so that You in turn may be delighted with me. Thank You. Praise God!

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May 6, 2016

Posted on May 8, 2016 by jgarrott

Psalm 5:3 In the morning, O Lord, you hear my voice;
in the morning I lay my requests before you
and wait in expectation.

I have written and even preached on this verse, because it expresses an essential part of my lifestyle. Right now the wording of the Japanese translation particularly impresses me. Expressed in English, the second half of the verse comes out as, “At dawn I make preparation (make an offering) for You and am on the lookout.” Getting up early to spend time with God can indeed be a sacrifice. I am reminded of David’s words at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite: “I will not sacrifice to God that which cost me nothing.” (2 Samuel 24:24) We tend to give to God only what is convenient, or what feels good at the moment. The focus of society is on making things easy, but sometimes the sports training motto is true: no pain, no gain. The widow’s offering also comes to mind. (Luke 21:1-4) Our gifts to God are far more meaningful when they really cost us something, in time, effort, or what have you. The flip side of that is knowing that we don’t do such things in a vacuum; God pays attention and will respond. The NIV captures that with “wait in expectation.” Sometimes God surprises us when He speaks to us, but we are more likely to hear Him accurately when we are expecting it. Making time every morning to pray and get into the Bible isn’t an obligation, it’s a privilege, and the benefits are beyond expressing in words.

I have had morning devotions as the cornerstone of my lifestyle for many years now, and I am deeply grateful. It is especially when I feel least like doing it that I know I need it most. Sometimes I have to sit quietly before the Lord for a while before I can even muster the presence of mind to pray, much less focus on the Bible to read it. Those are my times of greatest need. I have to prepare my heart and mind to fellowship with my Lord and receive what He has to say to me. However, all my years of experience have taught me without question that He is absolutely faithful, though I am not. I mess up more times than I like to think about, but He never misses a beat. I can indeed approach Him every morning with full expectation that He is going to meet with me, and that is glorious indeed.

Father, thank You for Your grace toward me. Thank You for loving me despite my failures and my petty rebellions. Thank You for preparing the way for me to come to You through Your Son, my Lord Jesus Christ. Help me be more effective in drawing others into Your way, so that they too may walk with You in the light of life, for their salvation and Your glory. Thank You. Hallelujah!

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