Let's pause season 2 here.  I've had a blast unpacking His Word with you!  I pray you have been blessed by something you heard or witnessed here.

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Have you ever needed a spiritual "pick-me-up"?  I certainly have.  While praying for what to talk about this week, I stumbled on this verse in Psalm 90 that speaks to just that.  It happened to fit with an especially trying week I just had.  Hope these verses bless you!  All of our days with Christ and in Christ aren't easy.  Some of it can feel like down right affliction, stress, and the like, but there is encouragement in the word for every weary soul connected to Him.  I've noticed that prayer can be hard during these times too.  Psalm 90 offers several easy prayers we can pray when we're down, to see and experience the immediate impact of the Lord at work.  Sometimes we just need a gentle reminder that He's still there and still hears.

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Have you ever felt pressure to do something?  I watched a movie recently (the Experimenter) that talked about this very thing, how it is in our nature to obey, even when it is to malevolent authority (someone with evil intentions).  Naturally this has strong spiritual and biblical implications, because Scripture talks about this very same thing.  The only authority we should listen and bow to is Jesus, but it can be difficult to reserve that ownership and relationship only to Him.  We often assume other entities, people, and even ourselves have more power than is actually true.  Our directives outside of Jesus, by nature, are malevolent, even the ones we come up with for ourselves.  We must forsake all and bow only God, the Lord Jesus, and Milgram's experiment offers a lot we can learn from in how to do this.  The root of what his experiment teaches is truth from the Bible.

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