I’ve been reading 5 psalms each day so I will have read the entire book in one month…I hope to do that each month. The Psalms are so packed with wisdom, promises and yes, how to live a life in Jesus’ name. Since starting this blog, I have been reading any scripture with “new eyes” looking for what it means to live in Jesus’ name. I am finding it all over the place!!
For instance, take Psalm 9:10. “And those who know Your name will put their trust in You, For you, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek You.”
The word name caught my attention…so if I am living a life in Jesus’ name I am putting my trust in God. I am seeking Him and the wonderful promise is this…that those who seek Him will not be forsaken by Him! So the question for myself is: “Am I putting my trust in the LORD, Yahweh? Do I see Him as my creator God, sovereign, the one who was so holy the Israelites could not say His name? Am I living my life trusting in God or am I living my life trusting only in myself and others? This is a sobering question and one I definitely need to ask myself regularly. It is soooo easy to take my eyes off of God and put them on idols that are all around us…those deep idols of comfort, acceptance, and fear.
Psalm 16:8, 11 remind me: “I have set the LORD continually before me; Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. You will make known to me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; In Your right hand there are pleasures forever.”
LORD, give me eyes each morning to look to You and place my trust in You no matter what is happening all around me! AMEN and AMEN!
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