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As many, if not most of us will not gather with our church family this weekend, this quote reminds me to remember today:
“. . . the psalmist [in Psalm 42] remembers. He calls past experiences to mind. He remembers past corporate worship experiences. This speaks volumes about the importance of corporate worship in our lives. Don’t take the significance of those times lightly. . . . If corporate worship were not a real supernatural work of God, it would be pure sentimentalism for the psalmist to remember his experiences. He is not engaging in nostalgia. He is confirming his faith in the midst of turmoil and discouragement by remembering how real God was in corporate worship.”
John Piper, Shaped by God: Thinking & Feeling in Tune with the Psalms (Minneapolis: Desiring God, 2017), 24.