I think I should just do this Psalm a Day thing once a month so I can preclude my post with some sad excuse of always not remaining fully committed to this little project and endeavour of mine.
Nonetheless as a sort of prelude to this post as to why the following verse sticks out to me so can be attributed to my generally growing disconcertment with living my life now. It’s like if I’m not too careful with my steps I may end up living the safe, secure and comfortable life that I may very well be entitled too.
I do not doubt for one moment I am extremely blessed. Though I may (recently more frequently) complain about my relatively low pay, I know that I still am blessed being in a position that is secured without too much effort.
Yet I still think that is seemingly so pointless.
I’m going down this path of having a secure job, house, wife and 1.5 children one day. Live till I’m 90 and die probably quite happy and satisfied…. with comfort.
One thing that still gives met his faint glimmer of hope is that I know without a shadow of doubt that really all I need is God.
13 I would have lost heart, unless I had believed
That I would see the goodness of the LORD
In the land of the living. (NKJV)
I like it how David highlights that he knows he couldn’t have done it on his own without believing in God. And not just believing in God to show goodness to him now in this life. But in the next.
Why I say next?
My logical inference is this. We are living in a world that is doomed to die, it’s fallen and death abounds. And well, the assumption that heaven is the land of living, and that’s all David needed to continue to live this life on earth, thus actually bringing a part of the goodness that which comes from God.
And so for me, even if nothing ever works out for me by human standard, or if my life is filled with the recently popular internet meme of FML (google it, I in no way support this, even though it may be tongue in cheek…), regardless of that I know that I am secured in God’s living goodness!
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Hi Jeremy! Your cogitations, wordsmithing and sense of humor are a truly an enjoyable read! Hope you will have a look at my blogs too. One is just about what the Lord has been showing me recently — that one is at http://onewhitetree(dot)wordpress(dot)com. The other is a collaborative effort, with psalms/poems/spiritual songs at http://strength4fear(dot)wordpress(dot)com. Maybe you would like to contribute?
Blessings,
Mary
hi hi ! just thought i’d visit your blog.
“Yet I still think that is seemingly so pointless.” – add something that has meaning to you perhaps