How has your weekend gone? We have been busy, but have gotten some good things done!
I wanted to take a minute and post about Psalm 55 and Psalm 56--the two chapters that the reading schedule had for this weekend. When I went to write a verse for Psalm 55, I found I had already written a verse for that chapter back in May of this year! So I will share with you the verse that I already had recorded for this chapter:
"Cast your burden on the Lord, and He shall sustain you, He shall never permit the righteous to be moved." Psalm 55:22
In my Study Bible, I have the following note for this verse:
Keep your wants, your joys, your sorrows, your cares, and your fears before God. You cannot burden Him; you cannot weary Him. He who numbers the hairs of your head is not indifferent to the wants of His children. "The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy" (James 5:11). His heart of love is touched by our sorrows and even by our utterances of them. Take to Him everything that perplexes the mind. Nothing is too great for Him to bear, for He holds up worlds, He rules over all the affairs of the universe. Nothing that in any way concerns our peace is too small for Him to notice. There is no chapter in our experience too dark for Him to read; there is no perplexity too difficult for Him to unravel. No calamity can befall the least of His children, no anxiety harass the soul, no joy cheer, no sincere prayer escape the lips, of which our heavenly Father is unobservant, or in which He takes no immediate interest. "He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds" (Psalm 147:3). The relations between God and each soul are as distinct and full as though there were not another soul upon the earth to share His watchcare, not another soul for whom He gave His beloved Son."
Steps to Christ, by E.G.White, p. 100
Isn't that beautiful? It is hard to wrap my brain around how God can love me SO very much!
For Psalm 56, I choose verse 3:
"Whenever I am afraid, I will trust in You." Psalm 56:3
A super quick search through the rest of the chapter found several other verses that talk about the same thing:
". . . In God I have put my trust; I will not fear. What can flesh do to me" Psalm 56:4
"In God I have put my trust; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?" Psalm 56:11
These verses reminded me of a quote from a book I have just finished reading. It was called "Don't Wrestle, Just Nestle" and is by Corrie ten Boom:
"Jesus Christ knows no fear, and He expects you to fear nothing while He is with you. When we confess His Lordship and our hearts fully agree, then we turn our lives over into His care. That is the end of worry and fear and the beginning of faith."
I also found this quote by Corrie ten Boom in the same book--I am afraid I forgot to copy down the page numbers these two quotes appeared on!
"Courage is fear that has said its prayers."
I really like that last one! We have fear--but when we give those fears to God, He turns the fears into courage!
Well, that is it for my thoughts on these two chapters. If it is God's Will, I will be back tomorrow with the next Psalm!
~Susan
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