My Strength is In God
Monday, June 22
My Strength is In God
My flesh and my heart fail; but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. Psalm 73:26
What a declaration this is! In many of the psalms, David is crying out in distress: “God, save me! I’m in trouble! People are attacking me! My enemies are pursuing me!” In others, David is desperate. He knows he has done deep wrong, and he doesn’t know how to put it right. He spills it all out to God, asking God to cleanse him and forgive his wrongdoing. He goes through deep shame, terrible shame for his adultery with Bathsheba. We can follow the process through, as he knows that God has truly and deeply forgiven him and released him from the darkness of that appalling series of events. But here David declares, God through it all, You’ve been my strength and my portion.
Some of these early psalms are full of joy. Others end in joy, after David has worked his way through the horrors of what he is enduring, like being hunted and pursued by King Saul and his troops in the desert, high and low, running for his life. This man is real. Now, still only part-way through my readings, I’m thinking that David doesn’t cover up his highs and his lows. This is real, desperate and, above all, emotional stuff. And, what’s more, we realize that God is also real. God is emotional. God is real and God is there.
The same is true for you and I today, God is all that we need. He will hang onto us through thick and thin. My nerve might fail, my body might fail, but God’s strengthen is something deep within me
Prayer for today: Father God, thank You that I can be real with You. You can take all my rubbish and mess and I can know the freedom of Your forgiveness for me. I can know You guiding every step I take, holding me safely. I can know You strengthening me deep inside and know that You are with me every moment of my life and into eternity. I welcome Your Presence upon me today. Amen.