12/27/13

12/27/13

Praise the Lord! Let all that I am praise the Lord. I will praise the Lord as long as I live. I will sing praises to my God with my dying breath. Don't put your confidence in powerful people; there is no help for you there. When they breathe their last, they return to the earth, and all their plans die with them. But joyful are those who have the God of Israel as their helper, whose hope is in the Lord their God. He made heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them. He keeps every promise forever. He gives justice to the oppressed and food to the hungry. The Lord frees the prisoners. The Lord opens the eyes of the blind. The Lord lifts up those who are weighed down. The Lord loves the godly. The Lord protects the foreigners among us. He cares for the orphans and widows, but he frustrates the plans of the wicked. The Lord will reign forever. He will be your God, O Jerusalem, throughout the generations. Praise the Lord!

Oh how I long for this Psalm to be the story of my life. Man, do I have a long way to go. As we approach the new year, and a new challenge to be people of God's word, I want to encourage you to join me in pointing our lives toward God. To not have confidence in powerful people, to sing praises all the time, to make God our helper. People are no true help for us, our help needs to come from the Lord. I have realized over the last couple of months of digging into the word, how much my communication with God is lacking, and how much I struggle with prayer. This coming year, I want to become a man of prayer. I want to become a man that trusts in God. I want to become a man that turns to God for everything, not just the things that I know I can't do. I need to rely on God, and take my trust away from my own abilities, and put it in Him. That is my one big goal that I am setting for myself for 2014. I have been closer to God than ever in 2013, now I an trusting in God to take it one step further, to lean fully on my God.