Tuesday, April 24, 2018

April 24

April 24


Psalm 92:1-2: It is good to praise the Lord and make music to Your name O Most High, proclaiming your love in the morning and your faithfulness at night. 

This Sunday I attended a seminar on teen anxiety. A local therapist led the seminar and made an insightful statement. She explained that pain in our lives can come from two directions: a violation of love (identity pain) or a violation of trust (safety pain). While there is much more that could be unpacked about that statement, I was struck by the connection I saw to this insight in God's word. 

The psalmist invites us to proclaim God's steadfast love and faithfulness daily. While we live in a world that will never love us or care for us perfectly, God's messages of love and faithfulness is the truth that we can proclaim and balm that we can receive every day. 

At the end of the psalm we are told the righteous will flourish, grow, bear fruit in old age and stay fresh and green. It seems that thriving is connected to the psalmists following declaration: "The Lord is upright, He is my rock, and there is no wickedness in Him." 

God, would You root us in Your love and faithfulness today, that we would rest in the truths about Your character and care for us even in a world full of uncertainty and pain. Let us be expressions of Your love and faithfulness to everyone we meet today. Amen.

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