So I can thank you.
I’ve had a long stressful week at work.
Physically and mentally, it has been exhausting. My thoughts have been
scattered. There’s a phrase in this short chapter I’m about to share that
when we are stressed out, we all need. Driving back and forth to work has
been a blur and I listen to a lot of music on the way and sometimes you need
that to get your thoughts fixed back on God. Psalm 142 is short, but it
reminds us where to turn.
“I cry out to the Lord; I plead for the
Lord’s mercy. I pour out my complaints before him and tell him all my
troubles. When I am overwhelmed, you alone know the way I should turn.
Wherever I go my enemies have set traps for me. I look for someone
to come help me, but no one gives me a passing thought! No one will help
me; no one cares a bit what happens to me. Then I pray to you, O Lord.
I say ‘You are my place of refuge. You are all I really want in
life. Hear my cry for I am very low. Rescue me from my persecutors,
for they are too strong for me. Bring me out of prison so I can thank
you. The godly crowd around me, for you are good to me.’”
Part of the chapter says, “Bring me out
of prison so I can thank you.” Maybe we aren’t in a physical prison but
sometimes our thoughts can be, and we need to get focused back on God more than
we realize. I almost didn’t even do a blog this week because my thoughts
have been so messed up.
I mentioned music and there is an old
hymn that got my attention on my way to work.
“Great is thy faithfulness,
Great is thy faithfulness
Morning by morning new mercies I see
All I have needed thy hand has
provided
Great is thy faithfulness, Lord unto
me”
Time to shift your focus back on God.
Great is thy faithfulness by Carrie Underwood and CeCe Winans
We don’t need it by Rebecca St James
Weak days by Steven Curtis Chapman
In Heaven’s eyes by Sheila Walsh
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