Weakness is a Gift!

Psalm 13

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

 ¹ How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever?
         How long will You hide Your face from me?
 ² How long shall I take counsel in my soul,
         Having sorrow in my heart daily?
         How long will my enemy be exalted over me?
       
 ³ Consider and hear me, O LORD my God;
         Enlighten my eyes,
         Lest I sleep the sleep of death;
 ⁴ Lest my enemy say,
         “I have prevailed against him”;
         Lest those who trouble me rejoice when I am moved.
       
 ⁵ But I have trusted in Your mercy;
         My heart shall rejoice in Your salvation.
 ⁶ I will sing to the LORD,
         Because He has dealt bountifully with me.

 Dear Girls,

I read Psalm 13 last night feeling grief for circumstances in my life that I have no power to change.  As I meditated on it and read it, I immediately began to cry out to Him and like David, my heart attitude was changed.  What a beautiful picture of prayer it is and the ability it has to change us.  In six short verses David goes from feeling forgotten by God to trusting in His mercy, rejoicing in His salvation and remembering how bountifully He has been dealt with by God.

I wrote recently in another study that the blessing is always in the doing NOT in the talking about the doing.  I so often talk about praying and crying out to Him in my distress but what I do instead is put it off by doing other things.  Avoiding my distress and trying to carry on in my own strength. Last night it was laundry, and the end of the day stuff that I used to avoid going up to my room earlier to spend time Him and His word, which is what my heart truly needed.  My own pride and maybe fear of losing control in my grief and not keeping up with all that needs to be done, keeps me from Him and His blessings!

Our whole attitude, though, can be changed just by crying out to Him in faith...that is how we access His grace.  That is when we obtain mercy and help in our time of need.  It is in the crying out...It is in the dependence on Him and Him alone.  I don't even need to go up in my room...He is always with me.  I am going to memorize the words of Psalm 13 and carry them around in my heart as a treasure...so I can take them out and meditate on them when in need.  Weakness is such a wonderful gift from the Lord because it drives us to our knees and draws us to Him in a way that nothing else can.  As we draw near and spend time with Him we leave His presence radiant...having been given that gift that no one can take away.

It really is that simple, girls. No matter how overwhelming the feeling or the situation, we as believers can just pull away for a moment and pray and our Lord will meet us there. Talk to Him, question Him, pray Scripture...lay it all out before Him. You will come away changed.

Love
Mom