19 Your righteousness, God, reaches to the heavens,
you who have done great things.
Who is like you, God?
20 Though you have made me see troubles,
many and bitter,
you will restore my life again;
from the depths of the earth
you will again bring me up.
21 You will increase my honour
and comfort me once more.
22 I will praise you with the harp
for your faithfulness, my God;
I will sing praise to you with the lyre,
Holy One of Israel.
23 My lips will shout for joy
when I sing praise to you—
I whom you have delivered.
24 My tongue will tell of your righteous acts
all day long,
for those who wanted to harm me
have been put to shame and confusion.
Psalm 71:19-24 [NIV]
David learned the key to happiness and contentment from the many trials and hardships that tested his faith over the years and I can sure relate to that. What he learned was to keep focused on God and on the goodness of God. When we begin to allow ourselves to focus on ourselves we will always begin to doubt God. In truth, we all have problems; health issues, financial problems, friend issues, family problems, church problems and we have more to do than we can possibly get done! The list can go on and on. In fact, the more we list, the more we begin to feel that there is no end to our troubles and we just want to give up because we doubt that God is really doing anything to help us.
On the other hand, when we focus on God and His goodness and we see Him in our lives as He works in us daily, we begin to be filled with a sense of peace and assurance. We can know that everything is going to be fine because God said it will. I read a wonderful book many years ago, 'Facing your Giants' by Max Lucado, 'Focus on giants—you stumble. Focus on God—your giants tumble'. I wrote earlier in the week about being expectant and telling others about God and His graciousness toward us. It is my choice how I face my life, I can either drown myself in my problems or I can count my blessings and submerse myself in the goodness, love and promises of God. I pray God will bless each of us as we trust Him today.
Dear God, help me to keep the eyes of my heart focused on you today. Help me to know your love and care in my life. Fill me with your Spirit that I may not grumble and complain but have your peace in my heart. I thank you for all you do for me each and every day. In Jesus name, Amen.
Dawn Milward
Read the bible in a year: Psalm 71:19-24, 2 Samuel 15:13-16:23, Acts 6:1-7:19
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