Saturday... Our perception is not necessarily reality . . .

Saturday... Our perception is not necessarily reality. Oh in difficult times we say what we are feeling but it isn't always true. It is just what we are feeling.

Do you sometimes in very difficult times wonder what David wondered here is Psalm 43:2 (NLT), "Why have you tossed me aside?" Oh it is a lie from Satan but in difficult times it is easy to believe the lie, isn't it?

He goes on, "Why must I wander around in grief, oppressed by my enemies?"

Now these thoughts come through our minds and our emotions but we can't let them stay there very long. David then said, verse 3, "Send out your light and your truth, let them guide me." I don't want to dwell on the lie, I don't want to get into great aloneness and deep struggles, no I need You, God, to guide me through the dark, send me the light and Your truth.

And he is then brought back to the words of Psalm 42:5, 11 and now here in Psalm 43:5, "Why am I discouraged? Why is my heart so sad? I will put my hope" not in the lies of Satan, not in the dark times of aloneness, not in my despair, no, "I will put my hope in God! I will praise him again - my Savior and my God."

Our perception is not necessarily reality but God is. So please God, "Send out your light and truth" and "I will put my hope in (You) God! I will praise him (You) again." and again and again! Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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