A Life Worthy

Tag: Psalm 27

  • One-a-Day Friday, 1/3/14

    number 1Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. (Psalm 27:14)

    But I don’t like to wait.  I have plans and goals and ideas and God just isn’t working fast enough for me.

    Besides, waiting seems so passive, so weak.  Don’t I need to get out there and accomplish something?

    I find it interesting that David says, “Be strong…and wait…”  That seems to indicate that waiting takes strength and effort.  It’s not passivity…it’s vigilance.  In Psalm 130, the Psalmist waits for the Lord, “More than watchmen wait for the morning.”  So I should wait, not sitting around aimlessly, but keeping my eyes peeled looking for him.

    Sounds like trust.

    Sounds like work.

    You know, I’ll bet that if I were seeking God, if I were dwelling with him, as the earlier verses in this Psalm talk about, it would be easier to trust him, easier to see where he is working in my life, easier to wait for him.

    Be strong.

    Take heart.

    Wait for the Lord.

  • One-a-Day Thursday, 1/2/14

    number 1My heart says of you, “Seek his face!”  Your face, Lord, I will seek. (Psalm 27:8)  

    This is part of that whole, “One thing I ask of the Lord…” idea we saw on Tuesday.  Yesterday was a holiday, and it’s easy to get all “New Man”ish when you are outside your normal routine.  Today, as you go back to the “real world,” the call to seek God can be harder to hear and obey.

    God has placed within us the desire to know him.  Sure, that desire gets twisted by sin and buried by the world, but it remains.  Listen to the cry of your heart—it’s giving you good advice.  Jesus tells us to ask, to seek, to knock.  Take the time to do that today, not just this morning, but all through your day.  Set the pattern.

    Seek his face in the glorious sunrise.

    Seek his face in the traffic.

    Seek his face in the work you perform.

    Seek his face in the face of your coworkers.

    Seek his face at the grocery store.

    Seek his face in your family.

    Seek his face, Beloved.

    It’s a good face.

  • One-a-Day Monday, 12/30/13

    number 1The Lord is my light and my salvation—whom shall I fear?

    The Lord is the stronghold of my life—of whom shall I be afraid?  (Psalm 27:1)

    We are coming up on the New Year.  When you think about it, it’s just an arbitrary date on an imaginary calendar.  I mean, it’s not like Wednesday is going to look different from Tuesday.  Sky will still be blue, grass green, gravity should remain fairly constant.

    Still…

    We look at the New Year as a time to start fresh, to begin (or re-begin) new things.  We wonder about the future and what it will hold for us.  What opportunities await us in the coming year? What challenges?  What treasures lie in our paths, and what monsters lie in wait?  It can be an exciting time—and a scary time.

    As you gird your loins for January 1, ask yourself the same question David asks: With God as my light, my life, my protector, what can possibly frighten me?

    Chew on that today.