{"id":300660,"date":"2004-07-13T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-13T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/mining-for-gold-in-psalm-34-part-2\/"},"modified":"2024-10-07T22:41:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T02:41:50","slug":"mining-for-gold-in-psalm-34-part-2","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/mining-for-gold-in-psalm-34-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mining for Gold in Psalm 34, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today on the broadcast, Dennis Rainey finds encouragement by opening the pages of Scripture to Psalm 34.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Rainey finds encouragement by opening the pages of Scripture to Psalm 34.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":294104,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"https:\/\/web.familylifetoday.com\/fl2004-07-13.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"00:","filesize":"11.41M","filesize_raw":"11969290","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":""},"categories":[2822],"tags":[4736],"podcast_series":[7318],"cwp_profile":[3048],"series":[2101],"class_list":["post-300660","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-growing-in-your-faith","tag-psalm-34","podcast_series-trials-and-tribulations-encouragement-hope-and-help-found-in-psalm-34","cwp_profile-dennis-rainey","series-familylife-today"],"acf":[],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1001\/2024\/09\/FLT-Podcast-Cover-2-508x508-3.jpg?w=508","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1001\/2023\/02\/image-scaled.jpg","download_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-download\/300660\/mining-for-gold-in-psalm-34-part-2","player_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-player\/300660\/mining-for-gold-in-psalm-34-part-2","audio_player":null,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"light","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/familylife-today\/id212174303?mt=2&app=podcast","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0j5UaKdQOHQCuo1bt0ebEm","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"},"youtube":{"key":"youtube","url":"","label":"YouTube","class":"youtube","icon":"youtube.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/feed\/podcast\/familylife-today","embedCode":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"k0g5tnOFl7\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/mining-for-gold-in-psalm-34-part-2\/\">Mining for Gold in Psalm 34, Part 2<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/mining-for-gold-in-psalm-34-part-2\/embed\/#?secret=k0g5tnOFl7\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" title=\"&#8220;Mining for Gold in Psalm 34, Part 2&#8221; &#8212; FamilyLife\u00ae - A Cru Ministry\" data-secret=\"k0g5tnOFl7\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! 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there may be some hidden scars of my heart and in your heart that if you let Him take those wounds and heal, they can become holy scars.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0This is FamilyLife Today for Tuesday, July 13th.\u00a0 Our host is the president of FamilyLife, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine.\u00a0 Are there some holy scars in your life that God wants to make into trophies of grace?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And welcome to FamilyLife Today, thanks for joining us on the Tuesday edition.\u00a0 The reality of suffering is something that all of us experience.\u00a0 I remember, early in our marriage, one night when Mary Ann and I were out walking, and we had a pretty good run for a number of years, you know?\u00a0 Life had been going pretty good \u2013 jobs, promotions, money, kids, cars \u2013 I mean, it was all kind of working out, and I thought, \"It doesn't go on like this forever.\"\u00a0 You don't meet anybody who says, 'You know what?\u00a0 I've kind of skated through life without any bumps in the road.'\u00a0 And, sure enough, there were some just around the corner from me after I had that thought.\u00a0 I think we've got to realize that bumps in the road happen to everybody.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Yes.\u00a0 Already, this week, we shared a message that I delivered to our staff team here in Little Rock just about some of the things Barbara and I were learning as we were going through one of those \u2013 things weren't going quite as well for us, Bob \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0\u2026 some bumps in the road \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0\u2026 as they were for you and your bride.\u00a0 But I gave a message on nine lessons we had learned about suffering, and we've already shared four of them.\u00a0 Let me just quickly share with you what those four are \u2013 the pain of suffering pierces every heart; secondly, God's timing and our timing seldom have the same calendar, though I wish they did, but they don't; number three, the issue is faith and obedience \u2013 in other words, who are you going to trust; and, number four, although we will always try to understand why, no one will ever grasp all that God is up to and God is doing.\u00a0 What we are left to do is we are left to embrace the knowledge of who he is, and that's why the Scriptures are so important to point us to the truth about who God is \u2013 that He really can be trusted in the midst of times that don't make a lot of sense.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0We've got part 2 of your message all queued up and ready to go, as you provide us with five additional thoughts on suffering that you and Barbara have experienced as you've bumped along the road here over the last few years.\u00a0 Let's listen together \u2013 here is our host, Dennis Rainey, talking about weathering some of life's storms.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0The words of A. W. Tozer are chilling but, I believe, are true.\u00a0 He said, \"It is doubtful that God can use a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.\"\u00a0 \"It is doubtful that God can use a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.\"\u00a0 The fifth thing that we've learned is that trouble was never meant to be faced alone.\u00a0 Trouble was never meant to be faced alone.\u00a0 Psalm 1 is a great Psalm.\u00a0 Psalm 1 gives us some important marching orders as we go through a valley.\u00a0 Psalm 1, verse 1 through 3, and then verse 6 \u2013 \"Blessed is the man who walks not on the counsel of the ungodly nor stands in the path of sinners nor sits in the seat of the scornful but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in this law he meditates day and night.\u00a0 He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf shall not wither and, whatever he does, he shall prosper.\"\u00a0 Verse 6 \u2013 \"For the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0The Hebrew word here for the wicked \u2013 \"Walking not in the way of the wicked.\"\u00a0 It's an interesting term.\u00a0 You think of someone who is wicked as someone who is maybe often, maybe, in the porn industry or they're in organized crime or they're making a living through some deceitful means.\u00a0 The Hebrew word for \"wicked\" literally means to \"live by one's own standards\" \u2013 self-imposed standards by man.\u00a0 And so what the psalmist is saying, when you go through suffering, when you go through difficulty, turn not to those who live by their own standards.\u00a0 Instead, turn to those who walk in faith; who know their God; and who can point you in that same direction.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0But the enemy, the enemy either wants you to turn to the wicked for your advice, or he wants you to be isolated and not tell anyone what you're going through because of the shame of what you're facing.\u00a0 The strength is in the one who surrounds himself, herself, with the godly.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0A sixth way to handle suffering \u2013 humility and integrity are non-negotiables in the midst of any trial.\u00a0 Humility and integrity are non-negotiables in the midst of any trial.\u00a0 Consider the life of Joseph \u2013 if there is one giant message that comes to us from his life after he had been sold into slavery by his brothers, after Potiphar's wife lies about him and gets him thrown into jail, and he's rotting in jail having lived a life that was near perfection, can you imagine what it would have been like to have seen these things repeatedly occurred against you so unjustly?\u00a0 And yet he says in Genesis, chapter 50, verse 20 \u2013 \"What men intended for evil God has used for good to redeem you.\"\u00a0 How could he make that statement?\u00a0 Because he learned the wisdom of responding to a crisis with humility.\u00a0 Letting God be God and he was who he was supposed to \u2013 trusting Him who judges righteously and, with integrity, he didn't cave in.\u00a0 Humility and integrity are measured by how we respond to criticism, to a crisis, and to a trial.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0When your spouse criticizes you, when your spouse corrects you, are you defensive or do you listen?\u00a0 You say, \"Now, wait a second, Dennis, we're talking about the big stuff, you know, imprisoned.\u00a0 Let's not go to my house.\"\u00a0 Are you teachable?\u00a0 As a single person, when someone corrects you, are you defensive?\u00a0 You see, those little tests could be preparation for a larger test that's just around the corner for you.\u00a0 Humility and integrity are non-negotiables in the midst of any trial.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Number seven \u2013 forgive those who wound you.\u00a0 Forgive those who wound you.\u00a0 Jesus was asked how many times shall we forgive?\u00a0 Seven times 70 \u2013 forgive those who spitefully use you.\u00a0 In your extended family, those who have never liked you \u2013 keep loving them and forgive them.\u00a0 Forgiveness is not optional; it is a command of Scripture.\u00a0 And there will be those, trust me, in your life who will hurt you repeatedly.\u00a0 They will create a wound in your heart that you could swear, as long as you live, it would never heal.\u00a0 Maybe it will be a deceitful wife, perhaps adultery, but the issue is we must forgive because we have been forgiven.\u00a0 Forgive those who wound you.\u00a0 If you do not forgive, the suffering you are going through will be doubled, because then you'll be carrying the burden of resentment in addition to the weight of suffering.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Number eight \u2013 God wants to create holy scars.\u00a0 God wants to create holy scars.\u00a0 The concept of holy scars comes from a good friend of mine, Dan Jarrell, pastor of a church in Anchorage, Alaska.\u00a0 I believe it's the message of Scriptures.\u00a0 God wants to create holy scars in your life and mine.\u00a0 Amy Carmichael wrote \u2013 \"No wound?\u00a0 No scar.\u00a0 Yet, as the Master so shall the servant be.\u00a0 Can he have followed far who has no wound, no scar?\"\u00a0 Was our Savior wounded?\u00a0 Was He scarred?\u00a0 The Bible makes a point of it.\u00a0 The nail prints in His hands are holy scars.\u00a0 It purchased our redemption.\u00a0 And although my scars may not be in my hands or in my side or in my feet as my Savior's were, there may be some hidden scars of my heart and in your heart, that if you let Him take those wounds and heal them, they can become holy scars \u2013 holy scars.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Ted Engstrom describes a number of men and women who have these kinds of scars.\u00a0 Cripple a man, and you have Sir Walter Scott; lock him in a prison cell, and you have John Bunyan; bury him in the snows of Valley Forge, and you have George Washington; raise him in abject poverty, and you have Abraham Lincoln; strike him down with infantile paralysis, and he becomes Franklin Delano Roosevelt; burn him so severely in a schoolhouse fire that doctors say he'll never walk again, and you have Glen Cunningham who set the world record in 1934 by running a mile in four minutes and six seconds; have him or born black in a society filled with racial discrimination, and you have Booker T. Washington, Harriet Tubman, Marian Andersen, George Washington Carver, or a Martin Luther King; call him a slow learner, retarded, write him off as un-educatable, and you have Albert Einstein.\u00a0 And we could add our own modern-day saints to that list of Corrie Ten Boom and Alexander Solzhenitsyn, whose classroom was their prison; Dietrich Bonhoeffer or maybe a wheelchair for Joni Erickson Tada.\u00a0 God wants to create holy scars.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Spurgeon reminds us \"The Lord gets His best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.\"\u00a0 The Lord gets His best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.\u00a0 In the battle near the front lines could it be He is making you even more battle worthy if you let Him?\u00a0 Can He turn your wound into a holy scar? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Number nine \u2013 it's about knowing God and glorifying Him, and I purposely saved this for last.\u00a0 Never forget it's about knowing God and glorifying Him.\u00a0 Psalm 119, verse 67 \u2013 Psalm 119, verse 67, 71, and 75 \u2013 \"Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep Your Word.\"\u00a0 Verse 71 \u2013 \"It is good for me that I have been afflicted that I may learn Your statutes,\" and verse 75 \u2013 \"I know, O Lord, that Your judgments are right and that, in faithfulness, You have afflicted me.\u00a0 Let, I pray, Your merciful kindness be for my comfort according to Your Word to Your servant.\"\u00a0 Turn back one book to the Book of Job, the last chapter of Job \u2013 the great summary to Job's life.\u00a0 Most of you have read this, but it is worth repeating \u2013 Job 42, verses 1 through 6.\u00a0 Remember, this is at the end of Job's life.\u00a0 This summarized his suffering \u2013 \"Then Job answered the Lord and said, 'I know that You can do everything and that no purpose of Yours can be withheld from You.'\u00a0 You ask, 'Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?'\u00a0 Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand.\u00a0 Listen, please, and let me speak.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Listen to what Job said \u2013 \"I have heard of you by the hearing of the ear but now\" \u2013 but now \u2013 but now \u2013 \"my eye sees you.\u00a0 Therefore, I abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes.\"\u00a0 What did Job say?\u00a0 Before I saw God, but now I've really seen Him, I've been impacted by Him.\u00a0 Adversity is God's university and His showcase.\u00a0 God was choosing you to go through what you've gone through or what you are going through or what you will go through to take you to school and to declare who He is.\u00a0 You may never know who is watching.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tElton Trueblood made this statement \u2013 he said, \"At the profoundest depths in life, men talk not about God but with Him.\"\u00a0 At those profound moments, we don't speak about God.\u00a0 That's what Job was saying.\u00a0 We talk with God.\u00a0 We know Him intimately because we're acquainted.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo what about you?\u00a0 What is your response to suffering?\u00a0 What would God have you to do in response to where he has you?\u00a0 Because I don't want you to forget God is near, God hears, and God delivers.\u00a0 He has a plan.\u00a0 I want you to just take a moment right now, and I just want you to just pause \u2013 I want you to just ask God for a very simple request.\u00a0 Just say, \"God, I know You're near; I know You hear; I know you deliver.\u00a0 What is my application in my life right now?\"\u00a0 Out of these nine principles, maybe it's something that the Spirit of God said to you that I didn't even say.\u00a0 It was another verse you read \u2013 what is His application for you right now?\u00a0 Would you settle that with Him right now?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\"O taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man who trusts in Him.\u00a0 O fear the Lord you, His saints, there is no wont to those who fear Him.\u00a0 The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and His ears are open\" \u2013 \"His ears are open to their cry.\u00a0 The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles.\u00a0 The Lord is near to those who have a broken heart and saves such as had a contrite spirit.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Well, those are great reminders from God's Word.\u00a0 We've been listening together to part 2 of a message that you shared with our staff recently, Dennis, on things to remember as we walk through suffering, and it's good for us to be reminded of what is true when we're right in the middle of circumstances that are dragging us down.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Yes, God does take us to school in the midst of the trials.\u00a0 Adversity is God's university.\u00a0 I love what Elton Trueblood says, \"At the profoundest depths in life, men talk not about God but with Him.\"\u00a0 When you're on the plateau, and things are going well, as you described earlier, how easy it is to forget Him.\u00a0 But when life is reduced, and we're pressed hard against Him, and the pain seems, at points, unbearable, how it presses us against almighty God.\u00a0 And you have to believe that God looks down at us and says, \"You know what?\u00a0 You sheep just don't quite get it,\" and many times I don't.\u00a0 And it takes that pain to press me back against it.\u00a0 But, Bob, there's where the real treasures in the relationship are learned.\u00a0 That's where the depth of the relationship grows.\u00a0 And if you'll be obedient, you'll mature.\u00a0 And the next time around you face suffering, you'll recognize some of the fingerprints of God, and you'll see His heart, and you won't question nearly as much as you are left to believe.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0You and Barbara put together a devotional guide for couples a few years ago \u2013 30 daily devotionals called \"Weathering Life's Storms Together.\"\u00a0 The design of the devotional is to point a couple to God and to one another in the midst of a period of suffering, and we've got it in our FamilyLife Resource Center.\u00a0 If you'd like to get a copy, you can call us at 1-800-FLTODAY or go online at FamilyLife.com.\u00a0 Maybe you know someone that you'd like to send it to \u2013 a husband and wife who may be going through a valley that you are aware of.\u00a0 Again, the title of the devotional is \"Weathering Life's Storms Together,\" by Dennis and Barbara Rainey. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0We also have a book that I know you've recommended to a number of people over the years \u2013 Philip Yancey's classic book, \"Where is God When it Hurts?\"\u00a0 And if our listeners are interested in getting both books, we're going to make available, at no additional cost, either the CD or the cassette of the message we've been featuring this week on FamilyLife Today.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Go to our website for details on how you can receive any or all of these resources.\u00a0 Our website is FamilyLife.com.\u00a0 We also have all nine points listed on our website.\u00a0 You can download the PDF file and print it out and tack it up on the refrigerator door to remind yourself of what is true in the midst of suffering.\u00a0 Again, our website is FamilyLife.com, and if you'd like to order resources, you can also call That's 1-800-F-as-in-family, L-as-in-life, and then the word TODAY.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0For those of you who are wondering, FamilyLife is brought to you by \u2013 you; folks like you who listen to FamilyLife Today.\u00a0 We're a listener-supported program. 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