“Blessed be the Lord,
who daily bears our burden, The God who
is our salvation.” – Psalm 68:19
Donovan and I have been reading a Psalm every morning for a
couple of months now. Naturally we have missed the odd morning, but for the
most part we have stuck with it. Sometimes I read it and when finished we just
go on with our morning…but sometimes we talk about which verse sticks out the
most to us. This morning my back is not doing so well so we decided that maybe
going to church and sitting on rock hard pews wouldn’t be a good idea, so we
read our Psalm, talked about it, meditated on it and listened to music.
As I read Psalm 68 this morning verse 19 really stuck out to
me. As most of you know I have been struggling with keeping up with my daily
Bible studies. I want to read my
Bible every day; I want to grow
closer to God; I just can’t seem to find the inner strength do to it. Of
course, on the days that I delve in and study His Word, listen to Worship
Music, sing at the top of my lungs, let the words penetrate my heart, those are
the good days. In verse 19 it says “Blessed
be the Lord, who daily bears our burden, The God who is our salvation.” The emphasis on the
word “who” was interesting to me. You’d think that the emphasis would be on “is”
but it isn’t. The Psalmist wants us to focus on The One who bears our burden, The One who
is with us no matter what, The One who
carries us when we are down, and The One who
is always by our side waiting for us to turn to Him. The One who is our salvation. No matter what I
want to Bless my Lord and Saviour who is my
salvation.
I find that sometimes we set goals for ourselves that we
somewhere inside of us we know we will never be able to reach them; maybe one
day but not on the day that we make them. (Or, at least I do.) So I have
decided to make smaller goals and build from there. My goal for the next couple
of weeks is to spend 5 minutes a day praising God; blessing His name, lifting
Him up, thanking him for all that He does for me. I used to do that all the
time, but I haven’t in a long time so now, it’s back to basics. Please pray
that I am able to do this and in doing this grow closer to my heavenly Father
and become strong in Him once again.
Blessed Sunday everyone and Happy 1st Sunday in
Advent!!! Bring on the Christmas Music!!!!!!!
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