May 8-9, 2022

My Own Forty-Two, A Testimony

Hello, my name is Peter Rhebergen

and I'm here today by grace of God alone

the One Who began to knit me together

before my parents even knew of me

this is the day that the Lord has made

I will rejoice and be glad in it

Hello, my name is Peter Rhebergen

and I'm here today by grace of God alone

the One Who gave me parents who love Him

who loving Him knew also how to love me

this is the day that the Lord has made

I will rejoice and be glad in it

Hello, my name is Peter Rhebergen

and I'm here today by grace of God alone

the One Who astoundingly blesses me

with peace and home and food and care

this is the day that the Lord has made

I will rejoice and be glad in it

Hello, my name is Peter Rhebergen

and I'm here today by grace of God alone

the One Who keeps me from falling

no matter how I try to fall away

this is the day that the Lord has made

I will rejoice and be glad in it

Hello, my name is Peter Rhebergen

and I'm here today by grace of God alone

the One Who holds my life secure

above the darkness that leads down to death

this is the day that the Lord has made

I will rejoice and be glad in it

Hello, my name is Peter Rhebergen

and I'm here today by grace of God alone

the One Who is my perfect hope

even as uncertainty roils around me

this is the day that the Lord has made

I will rejoice and be glad in it

Hello, my name is Peter Rhebergen

and I'm here today by grace of God alone

the One Who sustains my heart

when it has fallen down within me

this is the day that the Lord has made

I will rejoice and be glad in it

Hello, my name is Peter Rhebergen

and I'm here today by grace of God alone

the One Who surrounds me with wonder

revealing His glory in all that is

this is the day that the Lord has made

I will rejoice and be glad in it

Hello, my name is Peter Rhebergen

and I'm here today by grace of God alone

the One Who rescued this lost and hopeless man

from the pit he himself has made

this is the day that the Lord has made

I will rejoice and be glad in it

Hello, my name is Peter Rhebergen

and I'm here today by grace of God alone

the One Who always cares for me

through every trial and joy of life

this is the day that the Lord has made

I will rejoice and be glad in it

Hello, my name is Peter Rhebergen

and I'm here today by grace of God alone

the One Who's Son has paid my price

and lets me call His Father "Mine!"

As the deer pants for the water brooks,

So my soul pants for You, O God.

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God;

When shall I come and appear before God?

My tears have been my food day and night,

While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

These things I remember and I pour out my soul within me.

For I used to go along with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God,

With the voice of joy and thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.

Why are you in despair, O my soul?

And why have you become disturbed within me?

Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him

For the help of His presence.

O my God, my soul is in despair within me;

Therefore I remember You from the land of the Jordan

And the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls;

All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.

The Lord will command His lovingkindness in the daytime;

And His song will be with me in the night,

A prayer to the God of my life.

I will say to God my rock, “Why have You forgotten me?

Why do I go mourning [m]because of the oppression of the enemy?”

As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries revile me,

While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

Why are you in despair, O my soul?

And why have you become disturbed within me?

Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him,

The help of my countenance and my God.

Psalm 42