Who Will Give You CPR? A Study in Psalm 71 (Part 4) Today's Three-minute Bible Study Print, Study and Apply Title: Who Will Give You CPR? ----------------------- Date: 08/2/1999 Keywords: "depths" "distresses" "revive" "troubles" Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation. The following is the fourth of five studies in Psalm 71 as it relates to resisting Web porn. Feel free to study and/or download the entire set. Click here to send us any feedback. Passage: Psalm 71:17-21* 17. God, Thou hast taught me from my youth; And I still declare Thy wondrous deeds. 18. And even when I am old and gray, O God, do not forsake me, Until I declare Thy strength to this generation, Thy power to all who are to come. 19. For Thy righteousness, O God, reaches to the heavens, Thou who hast done great things; O God, who is like Thee? 20. Thou, who hast shown me many troubles and distresses, Wilt revive me again, And wilt bring me up again from the depths of the earth. 21. Mayest Thou increase my greatness, And turn to comfort me. Questions 1. In what ways can God teach you?   2. What bold request does the writer make in verse 18?   3. Part of life are troubles and distresses. The writer states in verse 20 that God showed them to him. Many become angry at the thought that God permits problems, but what is the writer’s response?   4. What do you think the writer means by "greatness" in verse 21?   Practical help Internet pornography takes our imagination to the basest and grossest level. It drags us through sewers in order to stimulate us momentarily. In the end we see the world from inside a cesspool, and everything, including ourselves and other humans made in God’s image, look dirty, worthless and expendable. When we take a hold of God’s hand, He raises us up and cleans us off. He gives us CPR and returns to us a new life with the possibility of seeing the world from His perspective. His righteousness overflows our imagination until, like the writer, we can say, "God, when I look up into the sky and see the farthest star, I know that it is nothing compared to You and Your love for me." Then we look and see a different world from the one we saw when we were floating in the cesspool, and our hearts begin to ache. We begin to see people as priceless but lost. We see their suffering and remember what it was like. So we cry out again, "O God, give us strength to help this generation come to know what we now know." May God, by His abundant grace, lift your thoughts to higher places today. eXXit homepage Index of three-minute studies Copyright 1999 by eXXit *"Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®, © Copyright The Lockman Foundation 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995. Used by permission."