Archive for the ‘Christian Walk’ Category
Contemplating God’s Goodness
I’m sitting in my car next to a reservoir in Howard County. I stopped for a time of prayer. It’s been a miserable sales week. I know God is good and gives good things to His children. I joyfully concur that times like these are used for our growth. As I type this a flock of geese just flew overhead, honking for all to hear. Geese honk as a way of keeping in formation. They depend on the honks of the other geese. It helps keep them from being drawn off course or becoming confused with nearby flocks. Likewise, God has provided His flock, His sheep, with the clarion call of His Word. No matter what may befall us, God’s Word never changes. Through prayer, meditation, and obedience to the Word, we keep ourselves from sin and find comfort for our souls in any circumstance.
We serve a great God who considers His sheep to be of infintely more value than a sparrow, or even geese. He is with us in times of joy and times of sorrow; even in the middle of something as trivial as a bad sales week.
Blessed be the name of the Lord.
We all need a little Selah
O LORD, how my adversaries have increased! Many are rising up against me. Many are saying of my soul, “There is no deliverance for him in God.” [Selah.
What does Selah mean? It appears throughout the psalter. Charles Spurgeon writes:
The precise meaning is not known. Some think it simply a rest, a pause in the music; others say it means “Lift up the strain – sing more loudly,” “Pitch the tune in a higher key – there is nobler matter to come, therefore retune your harps.” Harp-strings soon get out of order and need to be screwed up again to their proper tightness, and certainly our heart-strings are evermore getting out of tune. At least, we may learn that wherever we see “Selah,” we should look upon it as a note of observation. Let us read the passage which precedes and succeeds it with greater earnestness, for surely there is always something excellent where we are required to rest and pause and meditate, or when we are required to lift up our hearts in grateful song.
We all need a little Selah in our lives.
