Ps. 69:1 – 4
Ps.37:1 – 14 “What to do when it looks like the wicked are winning!”
#1) There is a pressure we’re under in our everyday life:
- Marriage
- Children
- Job
- Other People
- Situations
We are living under what welder’s call: M.A.W.P.!!!
Acronym for: Maximum Allowed Working Pressure
#2) Then there’s the process we call pressure testing! Almost time and ½ more
Ex. Waterline, gas line, etc..
Purpose of the pressure test:
- To test the character of the material
- To test the limits of the pipe
- To see if it’s reliable/to be trusted
- To reveal the hidden flaws
- To test its structural integrity
- To show areas that need built up
Pressure tests: 911, COVID-19, The Coming Election
What pressure tests have revealed:
* How easily we become afraid!
“Why? We trust Google more than God!”
* How easily we become angry!
* How desperately we need patience! Luke 21:19
* How much we love our comfort more than we love the cross
* How we so easily convince ourselves we love people more than God loves people!
Ex. Love shouldn’t have to hide commercial.
Our need to get back to the simple basics
God is good/The devil is Bad
There is a God/ I’m not him
Our need for the disciplines of a follower of Christ