"What have you been fixing your eyes on more recently - the enormity and difficulty of your circumstances or the character of our good and faithful God?"
Let's read through Psalms 57 and 36. Come with me as I take my eyes off the enormity of my situation and shift it to gaze at our Heavenly Father.
I have always been faithful with tithing, and just this last year, I sacrificed monthly nail salon visits so that I could shift my earnings to offerings for our new Church building.
But as car repairs hover above my head in amounts much greater than I can comfortably afford, I have been consumed with finding a new job, a new car, and how I am going to ever even begin to think about retiring.
Malachi 3:10 teaches us that God is faithful. I'm not sure if the "floodgates of Heaven" have been "thrown open" to me and my household. I certainly do not see it in a financial sense. But maybe God has been throwing them open through a roof over my head, a car that works, children that are healthy, and a job I love.
I wish God would bless me with so much "blessing" there wouldn't be enough room to hold it all.
I am the type of person that likes all their ducks in a row, and I would love to have too much in the storehouses. Money to bless others, help others, and to know my future is secure.
I'll never know or understand why God gives more to others over others, but I guess it's not my job to question God's ways. So this morning, I'm going to focus on God's attributes given to us through His Word. Read along with me because I know you are struggling this morning too.
This will bless us I know.
Psalm 57:
- He vindicates me.
- He sends from Heaven.
- He saves me.
- He rebukes those who pursue me.
- He sends forth His love and faithfulness.
- His love is great.
- His loves reaches to the Heavens.
- His faithfulness reaches to the skies.
- His righteousness is like the highest mountains.
- His justice is like the great deep.
- He preserves both people and animals.
- His unfailing love is priceless.
- His wings give refuge.
- His house provides an abundant feast.
- His river provides drink.
- He is the fountain of life.
- He is light.
- He is righteous.
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