Wednesday, January 16, 2008
That Was Psalm Great Reminder!
As I was reading through psalm 11, I just began to feel quite lost, reason being that it seems so similar to the other psalms that I have been reading. In my quietness, I began asking God, ‘God, what are you teaching me in this psalm? It just feels all the same.’
As I continued meditating on this psalm, I began to realize that God was sending me a reminder. A reminder that those who are upright seek the Lord and finds delight meditating in His word. It suddenly seem so clear that God wanted me to find delight meditating His word instead of having the attitude that this is just another psalm that I am blogging.
And so I was drawn to v4-5,
‘He observes the sons of men; his eyes examine them. The LORD examines the righteous, but the wicked and those who love violence his soul hates.’
The Lord was observing my heart. I can blog my devotions on all the psalms but was I doing it with the right heart. I was drawn to Jeremiah 17:9-10, ‘The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? "I the LORD search the heart and examine the mind, to reward a man according to his conduct, according to what his deeds deserve."
Indeed the heart is deceitful and I can only thank God that He reminded me to reflect on what I have been reading for the past few days. I have since found the delight in reading in His word once again for God brought me back to psalm 1:2,
‘But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.’
Thank God for He is a God who reminds us! In fact, He has also reminded that in the midst of being busy, I have forgotten to memorize my SLTC memory scriptures. Know that when you spend quality time with God, truly seeking Him with the right heart, He will indeed remind you of things that you should be doing. So once again, God is reminding you to examine your own heart…
Do you find delight in Him?
Labels: Devotion, PSALM devotions
