MEDITATION MOMENTS

BACA (Program 1) "IF I HAVE WOUNDED ANY SOUL TODAY, If I have caused one foot to go astray, If I have walked in my own willful way, Dear Lord, forgive."

84 SAYS: "HOW AMIABLE ARE THY TABERNACLES O LORD OF HOSTS! My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord: My heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God. "BLESSED ARE THEY THAT DWELL IN THY HOUSE: They will be still praising Thee. Blessed is the man whose strength is in Thee; in whose heart are the ways of them. Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.

"THEY GO FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH, everyone of them appeareth before God." Now we take that little verse: "PASSING THROUGH THE VALLEY OF BACA THEY MAKE IT A WELL" (Psa.84:6) -- I talked to someone today, a woman that came to my home, who is dwelling in the valley of Baca.

NOW THIS VALLEY OF BACA YOU'LL NEVER FIND on any map! I looked myself on the maps of Palestine and it doesn't give any location of a place called Baca. And God did that purposely.

HE TOOK THIS WORD "BACA" AS A THING THAT'S BEEN IN YOUR LIFE, a place where you and I -- all of us I guess -- have been some time or other. It's a place of suffering, a place of sorrow, a place of hardship.

IT'S A DRY, DUSTY PLACE, this place of Baca, just like a desert.

But you remember your Baca, don't you? When you passed through the valley?

WELL, THIS WHOLE SCRIPTURE HERE BRINGS OUT THE THOUGHT which is so very beautiful -- that Baca is bigger than any geography, it is larger than any maps -- and that thought is that DURING OUR LIFE SOME TIME OR OTHER when we have passed through such a place, we have had the great privilege of turning the difficulty, and turning the sorrow or whatever the hardship was, into a blessing.