![]() Here David speaks of one of the most painful battles of his life (v.18b). It gives you something to do but it gets you nowhere.’ No one goes through life without facing problems, battles and causes for worry.ĭavid faced many difficulties in his life. Commentary Choose trust over worryĪs has been said, ‘Worrying is like a rocking chair. Let them go down alive to the realm of the dead,Ģ3 But you, God, will bring down the wickedīut as for me, I trust in you. Some choices have life-changing consequences.ġ4 with whom I once enjoyed sweet fellowshipġ5 Let death take my enemies by surprise You can make bad choices or you can make good choices. One person’s choice affected the lives of numerous others. Almost every lawyer in Rochester, New York, followed him! It is said that 100,000 people were converted in the next twelve months in that area. The Chief Justice said, ‘Mr Finney, if you will call people forward I will come.’ Finney stopped his talk and said, ‘The Chief Justice says that if I call people forward he will come. Finney, in the middle of his sermon, felt someone tugging at his jacket. He got up from his seat in the gallery, went down the staircase and came up the stairs at the back to where Finney was preaching. why should I not do it like any other person?’ Then he thought, ‘Why not? I am convinced of the truth. He sat there pondering the choice he had to make. Then this question came into his mind: ‘Will you go forward like the other ordinary people?’ Something within him made him think that it would be inappropriate to do so, because of his prestigious social position (at the top of the legal hierarchy of New York State). As he listened to Finney proclaiming the gospel he became convinced it was true. One night, the Chief Justice of New York was sitting way up in the gallery. ![]() At the end of each evening, he gave people the opportunity to come to the front of the room and commit their life to Jesus. Charles Finney, lawyer and evangelist, was speaking in a New York church in the 1830s.
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