March 28, 2019
Psalm 87:1-3, 7                            
He has founded his city on the holy mountain.
The Lord loves the gates of Zion
    more than all the other dwellings of Jacob.  Glorious things are said of you,
    city of God:

As they make music they will sing,
    “All my fountains are in you.”
New International Version (NIV)
                Sometimes people sing about cities.  “Start spreading the news . . .” begins the song about New York.  Tony Bennett left his heart in San Francisco.  Glenn Campbell sang, “By the Time I Get to Phoenix”, “Wichita Lineman”, and “Galveston”.  Who can forget "Okie from Muskogee" (Larry Heslip and Eddy Hallock remember!).  George Strait sang about the town of my birth, “Amarillo by Morning”.  

                In Israel, they sang about Zion, the city of Jerusalem.  Actually Zion was a hill in the city.  Ever after David made it the capital of Israel, the people loved the great city of Jerusalem.  Tomorrow we will read about the way that David captured it from the arrogant Jebusites.  The songwriters imagined people taking pride in Jerusalem as the city of their birth, “This one was born in Zion . . .” (Psalm 87:6).   Even if the government forgot, the Lord kept track of his people.

                In which city were you born again?  I was in the little village of Schrollbach in Germany when my mother told me how to become a follower of Jesus and I prayed beside my bed.  Wherever you were born, be sure you are born again.  When you are born again you may look forward to a New Jerusalem.  It is not the Jerusalem that is there today, but a new one which comes down from heaven to the earth.  You want to live in that city.  When we do someday, with the Sons of Korah we will sing, “All my fountains are in you”.  
Pray with me:    
Lord of all the earth, thank you for sending your only Son to find us.  We thank you for the gift of life and the gift of eternal life.  We are homesick for a city we have never seen.  Lord prepare us for the place you are preparing for us, we pray.  Wherever we go today or in the years to come, help us never to forget our citizenship in heaven and our home with you.  In Jesus’ name.  Amen.        
This year our Every Day with Jesus readings will follow The Bible Project Read Scripture Plan.  Copies of this reading plan are available at Tallowood Baptist Church, or download 
the app at readscripture.org.  Read through the Bible with us in 2019!
Joyfully, 
Duane 
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