Psalm 60:1-12
Key Verse: 60:1a,5
“God, you
have rejected us—shattered us. Now restore us! Save us by your power and
answer us so that the people you love might be rescued.” CEB
How many of us feel broken right
now? Shattered? Even rejected? It the midst of all that is going on all around
it is easy to conclude that God has not only abandoned us, but rejected us,
turned away from us, will not listen to or heed our cries. We are tired, we are
weary, we are over stretched. It is all too much. Too much! We need to find
rest. We need God to turn to us, to rescue us. “Come to our aid,” we cry. “Give
us your peace!” “Let us know the
gentleness of your love.” “Give us the shelter we need.” “Restore us,
strengthen us.” “You are our God. It is you whom we love, turn to us in your
love and gather us unto you, let us come into your presence and know that which
only you can provide. There is none other who can give us what it is we desire.”
In your power, with the strength of your right hand, answer the cries of your
people who love you, rescue us!”
Things to
Think on
What overwhelms you today?
In what ways do you feel shattered or broken?
Does it seem to you that God has turned away from you, from those
you love, from the circumstances in this world which threaten to tear apart and
destroy?
Call out to God. Tell God to come back to you. To hear your voice,
to heed your cry. Cry out to God to rescue you. God will hear you, even when it
seems God is blind to our pain, and deaf to our cries, God hears, God will turn
to you who love God and rescue you.
A Prayer for
Today
Oh God! See me today. See me in my brokenness. I am shattered, I am torn
apart. I am worn thin. I feel as if there is not much left of me. I am weary of
all that wars within and all that wars without. The chaos of the world is
echoed in my own soul. Be my calm. Be my peace. I am adrift in a stormy me sea.
Rescue me. Part the storm, if the storm cannot be parted send me a life raft,
if there is not life raft, give me the strength to stay above water and the
trust to know you will not let me drown. Rescue me. Without you I will be lost
in it all. Without you I am already done. Come to me now, let me see you and
know it is your strength which carries me. I put my trust in you, I know you
have not forsaken me.– Amen
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