Restore
We’ve read and heard Psalm 23 multiple times in our lives and
that can be both good and bad. Sometimes the repetition has made us not
think about what it says. I want to show you my favorite verse in the
whole chapter. It’s a verse I have very often prayed back to God.
The English Standard version translates it this way.
Psalm 23:3
“He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of
righteousness for his name’s sake.”
Restore that’s the key word there. Some versions actually
say refreshes. So why do I pray this back to God you may ask. Some
of you know I spent 14 years working at call centers. It was one of the
most frustrating and emotional things one can do with their life. I
still hate talking on the phone to anyone other than my wife and family.
I got yelled at, cussed out and verbally abused all in the name of trying
to help people. Customer service is not for everyone. There were
days and nights I would leave work to go home and not listen to music, and I love music.
I got to the point that I could no longer handle the sound of another
person. I also on a daily basis got verbally attacked by coworkers making fun
of something I wore, said or did because how dare I like anything different
than what other people did. Prayer is a place you can go and turn your problems
over to God and he wants you to be as honest as you can, and he will restore
your soul. There have been times I have prayed this before bed because
I’m so emotionally drained from a day and I have to ask God to restore or
refresh my soul when I don’t know how to go on. I bring up my trauma from
call center work for a reason. if anything I have gone through can be used to
give someone else hope and point them to God I will try to do so. I’m a
mess but if God can use me to help someone else, I’m willing to be used.
If you skip the music you will have missed part of the message of the blog.
In the Name of the Lord by Sandi Patty
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