Thursday, September 6, 2012

Psalm 16

I actually woke up one morning feeling pretty downbeat until I read this song below. It's a song in the Bible which really says a lot about the relationship that God wants to have with human beings, and how that relationship transforms everything else. Go ahead:

 Psalm 16 - A Miktam of David
1 Keep me safe, my God,
    for in you I take refuge.
I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord;
    apart from you I have no good thing.”
I say of the holy people who are in the land,
    “They are the noble ones in whom is all my delight.”
Those who run after other gods will suffer more and more.
    I will not pour out libations of blood to such gods
    or take up their names on my lips.
Lord, you alone are my portion and my cup;
    you make my lot secure.
The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places;
    surely I have a delightful inheritance.
I will praise the Lord, who counsels me;
    even at night my heart instructs me.
I keep my eyes always on the Lord.
    With him at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices;
    my body also will rest secure,
10 because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead,
    nor will you let your faithful[b] one see decay.
11 You make known to me the path of life;
    you will fill me with joy in your presence,
    with eternal pleasures at your right hand.

At times like this I am just filled with wonder. I'm supposed to be a teacher and all "grown up" and whatever now and it's true that I've grown a lot... but it is also true that when it really comes down to it, I'm just a sheep.

 Just a sheep, baaaaa~

What do you think YOU are?

Sunday, September 2, 2012

Submission Deadline Unknown


If total conformity and submission to the will of God is what I preach, surely I must also do it!

Although you are God of eternity, you often had to wait for me as I went about life my own way.

Now, maybe just for a little while I will wait on you, and your good, perfect, pleasing will to achieve clarity in your time.

I don't have forever but you, o God, have a better grasp on my timeline than I do.

How much further?