This concept of trusting God seemed to have been my running theme yesterday. However, I didn't notice it until this morning as I was getting ready for work. I spent some time with God yesterday, but I didn't come across anything that really stood out. I also am still processing a lot and talking it out with friends and my mom...which did I mention, God has truly blessed me with some of the most amazing friends and mom that any person could ask for!! However, after today, I've decided to fast, pray, and just, overall, get to know God's heart.
So, I was really seeking God this morning about something to get me through the day. I kept hearing Psalm 16:1. I thought it was just me making up numbers because I was drawn to Psalm 17 yesterday. So, to me, it just sounded a bit corny that it was the chapter before. Corny might not be the right word. It's more like I was wondering if it was really God or if it was me.
I flipped to Psalm 16:1 and I was completely blown out of the water: "Preserve me, O God, for in You I put my trust." Was that what I needed to hear today...well and everyday of course!! I've been really encountering this idea of trusting God, and I even got a text from a friend yesterday reminding me that patience and trusting God are two things we should continually seek after. I completely agree, but the whole concept of trust is something that I guess I'm really needing to hear right now.
As I was pulling up Psalm 16:1 to copy in for this post, I realized that maybe I should read the entire Psalm. On a side note, Psalms is one of my favorite books of the Bible. I can almost always find God pulling me to the verses in this book because it so perfectly aligns with what I'm facing. Anyway, I realized that even though I may be meditating on Psalm 16:1 today, I found the entire chapter to be such an awesome way of starting my morning off right:
1 Preserve me, O God, for in You I put my trust.
2 O my soul, you have said to the LORD,
“You are my Lord,
My goodness is nothing apart from You.”
3 As for the saints who are on the earth,
“They are the excellent ones, in whom is all my delight.”
4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied who hasten after another god;
Their drink offerings of blood I will not offer,
Nor take up their names on my lips.
5 O LORD, You are the portion of my inheritance and my cup;
You maintain my lot.
6 The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places;
Yes, I have a good inheritance.
7 I will bless the LORD who has given me counsel;
My heart also instructs me in the night seasons.
8 I have set the LORD always before me;
Because He is at my right hand I shall not be moved.
9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices;
My flesh also will rest in hope.
10 For You will not leave my soul in Sheol,
Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption.
11 You will show me the path of life;
In Your presence is fullness of joy;
At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
Okay, so I'm going to break it down as to how I am processing this wonderful passage. In verse 2, the psalmist immediately brings up the idea that without God, nothing makes sense. Wow, if that isn't sobering, I don't know what is!! Then he proceeds to say that by setting the Lord as my first priority, my right hand man, I will be glad and my flesh will "rest in hope." WHONK!! I feel as if God literally hit me on top of the head with a hammer. It's like He's saying "HELLOOOOOO!!! If you trust in Me, you'll have peace and hope."
The psalmist goes on to say that God saved me from going to hell and that He will protect me from harm. It gets even better after that. Not only if I trust in God will He give me peace and save me from death, but He will show me the path of life. He is the only one that I can actually find fullness of joy. He is the only one that can satisfy all my desires.
This seems like such a crazy thought!!! I always knew it, but applying it to my life is totally different. I've realized over the past two days how much I LOVE talking about God and His amazing love for us. I'm completely honored and amazed to be able to worship a God who has this unbelievable, unfathomable, indescribable love for me--a person who is completely unworthy and once a sinner but lives in Him only because He sent His Son, thousands of years ago, to shed His blood as an atonement for what I would yet do. It's unimaginable, yet this is my story. There is no love that exists like the love that God has for me, and my heart's deepest desire is to seek after Him more than ever before.
Once again, I'm meditating on the following passage:
"Preserve me, O God, for in You I put my trust." (Psalm 16:1)
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