Saturday, January 12, 2008
Psalm Fine Day With God...

It was interesting to know in last week’s cluster meeting that psalm 5 is a ‘morning’ psalm and that psalm 4 is a ‘night’ psalm. The book of psalm just get more and more interesting, especially the later parts.

As I was reading through psalm 5, I realize I could break up this psalm into 2 categories:
V1-3: Men to God
The psalmist starts off by sighing, crying to God for help. He lays his requests before God and waits in expectation.
V4-12: God’s treatment to the wicked and the righteous
The verses which start from v4 onwards showed God being a righteous God.

Of all the verses I read from psalm 5, verse 1-3 spoke out to me the most as I could relate myself to it. Often will I complain to God when I’m feeling down during the start of the day, saying ‘God, why must things happen this way?’ and it seems like the rest of the day seem ruin. But after reflecting on what happen, I realize that circumstances changes when you first change your attitude. The decision to make a change in your attitude is a choice, and right after you decide on the right attitude, you think of what you are going to do about it. Over the past few months, I have learnt how to pray to God whenever I face situations like this and I find that this was a healthy and effective way in releasing your problems and burdens to Him. Know that God allows things to happen, whether good or not favorable because He wants to build you up.

As v3 says, ‘In the morning, O Lord, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait in expectation.’ This verse really affirms me that God listens to our voice. No matter how many times you complain to Him, He still bothers to listen to you because he cares about you. I like the part where it says ‘I lay my requests before you and wait in expectation.’ Basically, I start off my day by praising and worshipping the Lord and if there is one thing which I ask God of, it would be that He will make my day special and use me to do His work. In fact, I would like to spend my time with God in the morning whenever possible because I believe that we should give God our best even in terms of our time with Him. I feel that doing it in the night time might not be the best of time as I would feel worn out by the day’s work. It is during the morning that I feel refresh and able to engage with God meaningfully.

Simple things like praying for a cab when you are late for school (not that I want to be late, but late nights can kill) or praying for the opportunity to just bless someone can be some of our requests that we can ask from God. So let us wait in great expectation for the things that we have ask from God and believe that by His time and will, He would bless us with it.

So would you spend PSALM time with God today?

Labels: Devotion, PSALM devotions