Psalm 16:1-11
Key Verses: 16:1-2
“Protect me, Lord
God! I run to you for safety, and I have said, ‘Only you are my Lord! Every
good thing I have is a gift from you.’” CEV
How
many times have we run to God, as a child runs to the safe arms of a parent? As
God’s children, we are to trust God as implicitly as a small child trust his
mother. There are so many place we turn first. To logic, to money, to the wisdom
of others, to commonly accepted understandings of our society, we turn everywhere
but God. And when we finally decide to come to God with our cares, we com
reluctantly, as if we have given up and this is our last resort. “I guess if I
can not figure this out myself, I will tur to God an see what God can do. When
we come to realize that every good thing in our lives ultimately comes from
God, we then can realize that it is to God to whom we should turn first. Relying
on God should be our first instinct and not our last resort. God is a loving,
kind, parent, who is continually seeking our best. Trust and reliance on God
should be as instinctual as it is for an infant to trust her mother. God is
our strong mother and our caring father,
who is there for us from the moment we open our eyes, until at last we close
them and who is close by all through the night. All the good things which fill
each of our days ultimately are gifts from God.
Thing to Think on
What would it mean for you to trust God as
an infant trusts a parent?
How would that kind of trust in God change
what you do?
What would it look life if God was all you
wanted?
What would it mean for your daily actions,
if your heart’s desire was firstly for the things of God and al other things
secondary?
How does it change the way you think about
being chosen by God to know that being chosen by God means that you in turn
chose God?
What would it mean for God to be your first
choice?
A Prayer for Today
Lord, I run to so
many things. Too often I chose other things. And when I do chose you, I do not
chose you first, I chose you third or fourth. Sometimes, I confess, you are my
last choice. I want you to be my first desire, but the desires that fill this world
are so easy to turn to. They are here at hand and I see them first and turn to
them instead of you. Help me to learn to run to you. Help me to trust you
implicitly and whole heartedly, with all things, in all things. Help my faith
in you be my first reaction and not my final one. Help me to see all the joys
in my life as coming from you and through this recognition learn to trust you
in all things. - Amen
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