Monday, January 14, 2008
Psalm checking to do...

On first glance, Psalm 9 seems to be a pretty long psalm and it also gives the impression that it is similar to the other psalms that I have read. But there was mainly 2 parts that stood out for me in the entire psalm:

-V1-2, ‘I will praise you, O Lord, with all my heart; I will tell of all the wonders. I will be glad and rejoice in you; I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.’
-V10, ‘Those who know your name will trust in you, for you, Lord, have never forsaken those who seek you.’

I felt that these verses helped me to reflect on the condition of my heart. Have I been praising God with all my heart? Have I glorified God or steal His glory with my thanksgivings? Do I sing praise songs because of the wonderful music or because I really want to worship God? Do I rejoice in the Lord, whether it is spending time with Him or reading the word of the Lord? Do I truly seek the Lord with my heart and not because I want something from Him only?

These are some of the questions that came to my mind when I reflected upon these verses.

How can we be sure whether we are praising God with all our heart? It is only when we are really sure that we have abandoned ourselves and focused in giving our all to God. In the fast praise song, Take It All, we sing at the end of the chorus ‘our praise and all we are today, take, take, take it all’. Do we really mean what we sing? Often we are caught in the fast rhythm of the song that we forget what the lyrics really meant to us and to God as well. Declaring ‘take it all’ really means that we are giving our all to Jesus. Take It All has always been my favorite praise song of all time but I am always careful to check my heart while singing this praise song as I fear that I would be singing this praise song just as a song and not as form worship that God truly deserves. When we understand what it means to worship the Lord, we will be able to seek God with all our hearts.

Moving on to v10, it says that the Lord never forsakes those who seek Him. It also says that those who know your name will trust in you. I feel that the people who know God’s name know Him at a very personal level. The only way to know God at a very personal level is to spend time and seek Him. It has been written that God never forsakes those who seek Him and because those who had sought Him know this fact, they trust in Him. I trust in the Lord because I have experienced His great love in every situation I had in my life. In fact, one of my friends has experienced this same tangible love during his stay in London.

During his stay in London, he decided to move out of his comfort zone by opting to shift out of his wonderful, not forgetting, comfortable home stay, trusting that the Lord will indeed look after Him. To keep the long story short, God made it possible to let him meet up with another friend who was from the same church and tribe that he was in. This was truly mind blowing for all of us, and it really showed God’s humorous side and how He watches over us. Visit angusgoestolondon.blogspot.com to see the amazing things God has been doing in his life while he is at London and be encouraged by his testimonies.

So let us check our heart to see whether we have worship the Lord in spirit and in truth as well as trusting Him. For we know that the Lord never forsakes us when we truly seek Him…

Labels: Devotion, PSALM devotions