Psalm 4
God, it's me again. You've heard me before.
Hear me again today. I am in trouble. Please help! It feels like no one else
gets it and that no one else understands. I feel all alone. Everyone else seems
to have it all together even though they live in sin while I feel like I'm falling
apart even though I'm living for You.
God is setting me apart. He is consecrating
me, making me holy, like Him, altogether different than everything else around
me. I know He hears His suffering servants' cry for justice and justification.
I find myself becoming upset when I consider how few follow
God and it's the right response. But it is enough for me to know that God knows.
I don't have to defend myself and scrap and claw to look like I'm right. I know
I'm right because I'm following God and He's always right.
Lots of people want God to bless them, but few
people actually want God. Even when they get what they think they want like
money, fame, power, a good buzz, an orgasm, popularity, etc… I know I have
something better. Everything comes to an end… eventually. Except the One Who has
no beginning. He alone endures forever and all those who place their trust in
Him will have all eternity to consider themselves wise.
I love these paraphrases of the psalms you're doing - I think I might do this in my prayer time, too! "Lots of people want God to bless the, but few people actually want God."
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