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In the 1950s, Curt Richter, a Harvard graduate, and Johns Hopkins scientist, did a series of experiments that tested how long rats could swim in high-sided buckets of circulating water before drowning. Dr. Richter found that, under normal conditions, a rat could swim for an average of 15 minutes before giving up and sinking. However, if he rescued the rats just before drowning, dried them off, and let them rest briefly before putting them back into the same buckets of circulating water, the rats could swim an average of 60 hours. ![]()
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Conclusion: If a rat were saved – even temporarily, it would survive 240 times longer than if it were not saved at all. ![]()
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How could these rats swim so much longer during the second session, especially after swimming as long as possible to stay alive during the first session? Dr. Richter concluded that the rats were able to swim longer because they were given hope. ![]()
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Hope can stand beside grief and give us the strength to go on. ![]()
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Hope can deflect the attacks of the enemy, even when we are wounded and weary of the battle. ![]()
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Have you ever been so tired, utterly discouraged and in so much pain that you could hardly breathe? That is exactly where we find King David, the author of Psalm 40.![]()
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David had it all – success, money, power, and the favor of God. Men like that are not supposed to commit adultery – right? But David did. ![]()
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When David realized that he had sinned against God, he pleaded with God to forgive him. “Lord, I have sinned” David cried. God’s mercy and love went to work, restoring David to the point that God said, “This is a man after my own heart.” ![]()
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David puts into words the cry of his heart in Psalm 40:1-3:![]()
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“I waited patiently for the Lord; He turned to me and heard my cry.” ![]()
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Did you notice the powerful truth that God turned to David? I don’t think David had the strength to turn to God. He had been swimming in his sin far too long. But like a father whose heart and ears are tuned to the cries of His children - even when they have made mistakes – even when they are broken and their lives are a mess, when the children of God cry out for God, He hears and comes running. ![]()
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God meets us where we are. He lifts us out of our slimy pit and gives us a firm place to stand – in His mercy and grace. The forgiveness we experience through His love gives us hope and a new song, a hymn of praise for all He has done. ![]()
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He is our God, Savior, and Friend when we are walking in obedience … as well as when we are wallowing in disobedience. His love is unconditional. His mercy is never ending. And His forgiveness is eternal. ![]()
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If God heard the cry of David, He will hear yours. He knows everything you have done and loves you still. He can see every corner of your pain-filled heart and sees every tear you've cried. ![]()
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David wrote, “You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in Your bottle. You have recorded each one in Your book” (Psalm 56:8 NLT).![]()
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One of my favorite worship songs says it well:![]()
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I have a hope that will never fade away. ![]()
It’s alive in me, living day-to-day. ![]()
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You can count on God to come through. He is your hope. ![]()
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Father, I come to You – hopeless. I have sinned against You. But right now, I lay down any sin that I have committed and come to You with open hands. I receive Your forgiveness and ask that You purify my heart. I will once again praise You and please You with my steps of obedience. ![]()
In Jesus’ Name, Amen.![]()
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I’m not an athletic sort of person. But I am married to one. And in an attempt to bond with my husband, I agreed to do a charity bike ride. I grew up in Texas, where the roads are smooth and the ground is flat. I’m still adjusting to the idea that this is not the case in other places, such as the one where we live. This ride had several distances to choose from, and Mark picked the longest—one hundred miles. This felt to me like a form of cruel and unusual punishment for one’s behind. So I chose the shortest distance—twenty miles—which still felt monumental to me.![]()
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I arrived at the starting line just as the sun started to lighten the sky. I had risen as well, but I was certainly not shining. We began pedaling, and I noticed water stations along the route. I watched the speedier bikers roar up to them, grab a paper cup held out by a volunteer, toss the contents back in one great gulp, and carry on their way. It made me giggle a bit, because most of the water ended up on the rider’s face and clothes and the ground. But slowing down for more just wasn’t an option. (Sidenote: these stations also had tiny cups full of pickle juice. Apparently, the high salt content in it can make muscle cramps go away. Blech. I’m not that hardcore.)![]()
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Something about the riders zipping through the water stations felt familiar. Only later did I realize that I’ve lived through seasons when I’ve done the same—when everything has been rush-rush, hurry-hurry, stress-stress, until my soul has felt parched. Perhaps that’s why this picture the psalmist shares is so reassuring to me:![]()
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He lets me rest in green meadows; he leads me beside peaceful streams. (Psalm 23:2)![]()
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The metaphor here is about a shepherd and sheep. A modern-day sheep rancher says, “Sheep prefer to drink still water as opposed to water from a moving stream.” It seems it’s easier for humans and sheep to receive what they need when there’s not a rush.![]()
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We may think we have to settle for a quick sip, that God’s priority is for us to cover as much ground as we can in as little time as we can. But His true invitation is for us to slow down, drink deep, and take all the time we need. Three times throughout Scripture God gives us this offer.![]()
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“Is anyone thirsty? Come and drink”(Isaiah 55:1 NLT).![]()
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“Jesus stood and shouted to the crowds, ‘Anyone who is thirsty may come to me!’” (John 7:37 NLT).![]()
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“Let anyone who is thirsty come. Let anyone who desires drink freely from the water of life (Revelation 22:17 NLT).![]()
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This is the miracle and mystery: God is pointing us not to an external source but to Himself. He is “the LORD, the fountain of living water” (Jeremiah 17:13), and “when he said ‘living water,’ he was speaking of the Spirit” (John 7:39). He’s not the volunteer standing by the side of the road with a cup in hand. He is the water itself, the One we thirst for with all our being.![]()
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Mark and I both finished our rides. We felt happy and satisfied. Pushing through and going fast is a fun way to spend a Saturday. But, I’m learning, it’s a hard way to spend a life.![]()
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Pastor and author John Ortberg once asked theologian Dallas Willard what he needed to do to be spiritually healthy. Willard replied, “You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.” That’s not the message we get from the world around us. We hear, “Go faster, do more, get to the finish line.” What a relief to know we serve a God who instead simply says, “Anytime you’re thirsty, anytime you need to receive, slow down and come to Me.”![]()
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