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How To Live When Life Is A Mess

This morning we are back in our study in Psalm 37 How To Live When Life Is A Mess.I find it quite amazing how God led Gordon to add to what we have been studying when he shared on how Storms are Normal.It is very obvious God cares about what we are going through.So far we spent to weeks looking at how not to let the Messes we face in life to control us - But learn to trust God.Then we spent two weeks looking at What to do with The Mess.

It doesn’t just go away but often the mess remains and so what do we do?Our main take home was to learn to roll your mess to God and wait patiently and let Him deal with it.Today and next week we will wrap up this teaching by looking at two final lessons.

This week will be all about something not to do THAT IS VERY HARD, next week will wrap up by learning to get a proper focus on life.According to this Psalm David was old when he wrote it, he had lots of life experiences behind him, you could say David faced a lot of messes by the time he wrote this.What is great for us is some of the messes are recorded for us in Samuel and Chronicles so that we can learn from them.They are “instructions” for us.

I have to make a confession when it comes to instructions.The frustrate me.

They make me Fret.

You go to the store and buy something and it comes with “instructions” to make life easier.How many of you are “instruction readers?”Not me.

Often they make me fret.

I get worked up by them.Like when I go to the DIY store.Do you know what DIY stands for?

DIY: Do it Yourself or Doesn’t Include You

DIY:

Do It Yourself or

Doesn’t Include You

Do It Yourself.For me it means DOESN’T INCLUDE YOU.

Or don’t buy it.See what happens to me is buy something that needs to be put together and there are either too many parts or not enough or they Don’t fitLike this, I just bought a new coffee grinder.This came with it.

It doesn’t fit anywhere.

It doesn’t even mentioned it in the directions.So I start to fret.

Get worked up.At times I even get angry.

What happens when you try and Do It Yourself when you are angry?You force it and it breaks.Some of you may DO IT YOURSELF - DOESN’T INCLUDE YOU.In our section today we will learn this lesson.We have been given instructions in the first 7 verses.And

I know from your feedback these lessons have spoken to many of you like no other series.Week after week for the past five weeks you have left church with the desire to put these teachings into practice.How many of you have left with the desire to put these into practice but also found you have become frustrated trying to fret not and trust God?

Any of you there?Here is what we will learn today.Our take home will be to see, Don’t Let your emotions take over.The one you really need to be careful of is Anger.David will show us if you let anger take over, you will break stuff and make a bigger mess.We will also learn what to do when your emotions start to control you in order to calm down.Read

8  Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath!

Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil.

9  For the evildoers shall be cut off,

but those who wait for the Lord shall inherit the land.

In just a little while, the wicked will be no more;

though you look carefully at his place, he will not be there.

11  But the meek shall inherit the land