In Psalm 81 the Lord is our strength and sets a decree for us that tells us He removes the burdens from our shoulders and sets free our hands. When we call upon Him out of our distress, He answers us. He does not spare us from the distress because He grow our spiritual strength during times when we struggle for the answer only He can provide. He wants us to rely on His strength, not ours. 13 "If my people would but listen to me, if Israel would follow my ways...16 But you would be fed with the finest of wheat; with honey from the rock I would satisfy you." Many times we miss the blessings the Lord has stored up for us because we do not call out to Him in our distress.
In Psalms 82 God is the only God who is alive and involved in the daily life of His people. It is nice to know we have a God that will reign forever for all generations and they can call to Him a hundred years from now and He will answer.
In Psalm 83 the Lord is the Most High God. 18 "Let them know that you, whose name is the LORD — that you alone are the Most High over all the earth."
In 1st Peter 1 the Lord tells us that we are to praise the Lord who sets us apart, makes us holy and gives us life. 6"In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. 7These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. 8Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, 9for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls... 22Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from the heart. 23For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God." We are to love each other as an act of obedience. When we genuinely do that He gives us a harvest of faith that will not fade away. 24"For, "All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, 25but the word of the Lord stands forever." And this is the word that was preached to you.
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