The Joy of Resurrection Living - Covenant Church

What does it practically look like in your daily life to take refuge in God and say, “You are my Lord” (verse 2)?

In what ways or areas are you more easily inclined to run after securing your good apart from the Lord (verse 4)?

In verses 5-6, the Lord has ordered our life circumstances so that we have a home with him where we are welcomed, secure, known and provided for in his goodness. How the boundary lines of God’s provision fallen for you in pleasant places? How has the Lord given you the security and provision you need?

What weekly rhythms are part of your life when you are taking in God’s counsel and instruction? How have you experienced God causing fruit to grow  in your life from his word?

Author Alan Noble, shared in his book You Are Not Your Own, that he wrote to a good friend of his who was dying about the comfort of belonging to Christ. He reflected, “There is comfort in death through belonging to Christ, but it is a hard comfort. Because it asks us to stand before God every moment, never denouncing or rejecting the gift of life, but taking each opportunity to delight in God, enjoy His creation, and extend His grace to others so long as we physically can. This is true even when we suffer physically and mentally, even as we lose control over our body and must depend more on others. We can be comforted that before God there is no burden to use our life efficiently, to accomplish enough or achieve enough, to do enough with our limited time to justify our life… And when we stand before God, we have the comfort of knowing that He will see His Son, and He will say, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant.’ Which is all we ever really wanted to hear anyway.” In what ways have you experienced or related to this “hard comfort”?

The English poet and author GK Chesterton related the reality of eternal pleasures in God’s presence like the vitality of children. Because “they are in spirit, fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, “Do it again”; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, “Do it again” to the sun; and every evening, “Do it again” to the moon…. it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them.” Heaven is like a theatrical encore, enjoying the delight of being filled again and again with the joy of being in God’s presence. How does this delightful inheritance in Christ shape the way you live today?

What from this passage and this discussion is something you want to put into practice or be more aware of this week or praise God for?