May 2, 2009 Quiet Time

January 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Dan's Quiet Time

Psalm 40:8 “I delight to do Your will, O my God, and Your law is within my heart.”

After a pretty tough day yesterday, I needed this so much. Psalm 40 begins with this reminder to me, “I waited patiently for the Lord, and He inclined to me, and heard my cry. He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my steps.”

“He inclined to me, and heard my cry.” I needed that so much. Just to think that the Lord would lean toward me, listening to the groanings of my heart is overwhelming. He hears me because I seek His ear. I’m not in a crowded room with my God. He inclines His ear toward me because He wants to hear my cry. Awesome!

The rock that He has set me on is Himself. He has given me a firm foundation and a place to stand. “Blessed is that man who makes the Lord his trust, and does not respect the proud, nor such as turns aside to lies.” Vs. 4.

In the toughness of the day, when the stress gets really bad, where am I to turn but to you O Lord? No man is capable of providing me comfort. Internally I cannot bear it. I replay the day in my mind and am thankful You walk with me through it. My greatest weakness is when I try to live in my strength. This is when I am trusting in myself, my strength, my endurance, my wisdom, rather than making the Lord my trust. Foolish me.

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