Psalm 137.4 - I Didn’t Sign Up for This!

Psalm 137.4 - I Didn’t Sign Up for This!

Sometimes we’re blindsided by the unforeseen. Daniel and the boys expected to grow old in the shade of God’s Temple in their Hebrew homeland. Babylon demolished their world. The only thing unchanged was their God – yet their familiar ways of finding Him - Temple, traditions, rituals, leaders – lie buried! “How can we sing the Lord’s song in this strange land?” His ‘still small voice’ seemed silent amidst the Babel. Now the new boss threatens, the new food tests, the new languages taxes, and the new religion tries. These brothers found their footing in the promises of the Word – hidden in their hearts, not their phone; and in one another. The Bible and the brethren will still buoy us in the sea of change we’ve fallen into here in China. They could trace the faithfulness of God from Eden onward. How much more now we.