Who is your God? (Psalm 18:16-36)
"For who is God besides the LORD? And who is the Rock except our God?" Psalm 18:31
This is not a philosophical question to just brush over quickly in our reading today. This question is one that begs us to stop and take a seriously honest look at our lives, every aspect. Whether good times or bad, plenty or want, joy or sorrow, sickness or health, whether the path of life appears obvious or unforeseen, no matter where you are in life at any time how does your life lived out answer this question? Do you strive to gain control and steer events in directions you desire or do you surrender control to the LORD who is God and say, "I surrender to you and need you to lead me for your way is perfect, I will follow and trust you."? Do you face the day in fear of your weaknesses or plow ahead in your own strengths and abilities rather than pause and seek the LORD who is God and say, "you arm me with strength, you make me stable, you enable me to do things beyond what I think I can do by myself. I trust in you to be my strength and shield."?
What are you putting in place of the LORD as your God, hope, strength, council, light, truth, refuge, your _____________ (fill in the blank as you reflect). Are you trusting in your abilities, government, doctors, spouse, friends, job, bank account, stock market, gym membership, _____________ (fill in the blank as you reflect). As a side note, God does use people, situations and our abilities at times in our lives but we are not called to put our trust and hope in others but in God and leave it to Him to lead us and show us who He will or will not use in our lives. We are called to trust Him with the events of our lives.
I know that God is always speaking but we are not always listening, we are not always ready or wanting to see things about ourselves that we need to see. So, we need to seek the LORD, who is God, and ask for a heart and mind that is ready and wanting to know what we are putting before Him. Then we need to ask Him to reveal to us anything and everything that we put in place of Him as a god in our lives. We need to seek to have revealed anything that we are trusting in and putting our hope in before God. Then we need to ask the LORD who is God to give us the strength and ability to put Him back as our hope, strength, council, light, truth....back as God who is center in our lives.
God the LORD is good all the time not just when life seems like a walk on the beach so lets make sure our lives are lived to reflect all that He is all the time. Let us live with our hope and trust in Him alone.
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