“I will bless the
Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul makes its boast in the Lord;
let the humble hear
and be glad. Oh, magnify the Lord with me,
and let us exalt His
name together!”
~Psalm
34:1-3
I
like reading the Psalms because they remind me how good the Lord is, especially
when life isn’t going the way I like. It’s easy to say we praise the Lord at
all times, but do we really? When we are in the middle of a personal crisis, do
we praise the Lord? In the middle of stress, anxiety, anger, loss, grief—or any
of the other emotions that plague us—is His praise continually in our mouth? I
got to test that recently when I was having a really, really bad day. I was not
in a praising mood, but the above verse went through my mind, and I had to
check myself. It wasn’t easy to suppress the emotions but that is the power of
the Holy Spirit. I was able to put aside what I felt and praise God for what I
knew to be true.
“I sought the Lord, and He answered me and
delivered me from all my fears. Those who look to Him
are radiant, and their faces shall never be
ashamed. This poor man cried, and the Lord heard
him and saved him out of all his troubles. The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear Him
and delivers them (Psalm 34:4-7).”
The Lord cares about our emotions, He cares
about our problems, but He doesn’t want either of those things to get so out of
control that we forget Who is in control. No matter what we go through in our
lives, we can depend on the Lord to work problems out in our favor. Our job is
to depend on Him at all times, but especially in those times when our emotions
are out of control.
“The eyes of the Lord are toward
the righteous and His ears
toward their cry. The face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to cut off the memory of them from
the earth. When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears
and delivers them out of all their
troubles. The Lord is near to the
brokenhearted and
saves the crushed in spirit. Many are
the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all (Psalm
34:15-19).”
Read Acts 1-6
©2018 Marie McGaha
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