God’s Word is always surprising. Turning to it each morning impacts my day and my faith in unexpected and delightful of ways.
This morning it was Psalm 78. It’s a familiar and loved psalm. It was as if the dots connected once again.
Verse 1 – “Listen, o my people…” This is a call to listen with the intent to obey.
Verse 2 – “Incline your ears…” This is reminding us we must turn and position ourselves to hear.
This psalm is a sobering reminder to learn from not only history, but from our own mistakes. If we don’t, then we will repeat them, time and time again.
We need to be doing these things (to listen and position ourselves) actively and daily, then something occurs:
“I will open My mouth…” (verse 3, NASB)
It is then God will speak to us.
Yes, Asaph was speaking and writing to the Israelites, reminding them of the past history of all God had done for them. After all they had witnessed, they still asked two critical questions, revealing doubt.
- “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?” (verse 19, NASB)
- “Can He give bread also? Will He provide meat for His people?” (verse 20, NASB)
YES, He can! Yet we do the same thing. We ask Can God? Will He? We forget that He can as He pleases and that includes, that which seems impossible to us.
In the Book of James, we are encouraged to come to God and ask for wisdom, for when we ask, He will surely provide. But James goes on:
“But he must ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind.” (verse 6, NASB)
James gives us a visual of the sea which goes in every direction, back and forth, this way and that. He then describes the doubting person:
” … being a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.” (verse 8, NASB)
Recently all of these verses connected for me regarding a particular situation. We are to pray and then trust God with the answer. Trust Him to lead and guide as He knows best for our lives. As we accept His answer, and move forward, He will keep our feet on solid ground.
But it all begins with:
“Listen, o my people…”
“Incline your ears…”
Then God will speak to us.
Choices, We all make them each day. But do we often stop to consider that “our choices add up, even when they seem small or automatic.” In her post, The Power of Choice HERE, Pam Ecrement provides wisdom and insight on for us to to think upon.
Come, sit a spell. Bring your coffee, your posts, and your thoughts. If you link up, kindly visit those who have drawn up a seat around you.
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