Saturday... Let's go, let's get with it. I'm in a hurry.

David when writing Psalm 70 must have been in a hurry. If we were writing a Psalm today, I'm sure we would be in a hurry.

Here is the way David started this Psalm in verse 1 (MSG), "God! Please hurry to my rescue! God, come quickly to my side!" Now that phrase shows where the problem was. It wasn't with God. God is everywhere. He is right beside Him. He is right beside us. The problem is with David, it is with us. We are in too much of a I'm in trouble, I don't know what to do, I need help right now kind of hurry that we don't acknowledge that God is near, that He is close and by the way, He is working on whatever it is that we are in such a hurry to get taken care of.

Could it be that the hurry is a part of the problem? We want whatever it is that we are facing to be solved right now when the Problem-solver is at work in whatever it is we need solved. But He is solving it in His time and in His way and for His purpose. Stop. stop, slow down. Relax.

In verse 5 David says, "But I've lost it. I'm wasted. God - quickly, quickly! Quick to my side, quick to my rescue! God, don't lose a minute."

Maybe the problem isn't with God but with us.

Verse 4 (NIV) says, "But may all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; may those who long for your saving help always say, 'The Lord is great!"

Let's relax and change our focus on what needs to be done to Who has the power to get it done. You are not alone. He is right beside you and He feels your anxiety and He wants you to slow down and see that He is working it out. Take a deep breath, slow down, give it Him and then trust Him. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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Tuesday... I wonder what would happen if we didn't take the credit?

Nehemiah 6:16b (NLT), "They realized this work had been done with the help of our God." Tuesday... I wonder what would happen if we didn't take the credit? Over in the Old Testament in the book of Nehemiah it tells of a major task that through the leadership of Nehemiah was accomplished. The walls of Jerusalem had been torn down and God had laid it on Nehemiah to build those walls back up. It was definitely an almost impossible task but Nehemiah 6:15-16 says, "So on October 2 the wall was finished - just fifty-two days after we had begun. When our enemies and the surrounding nations heard about it, they were frightened and humiliated. They realized this work had been done with the help of our God." Now, we so many times want to take credit for doing the impossible. It would make such a difference for us. But I wonder what would happen through us if God got the credit? Psalm 96 tells us what we are to do. Verses 2-3 says, "Sing to the LORD; praise his name. ...

Tuesday... We just have trouble listening.

1 Corinthians 13:7 (NLT), "Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance." Tuesday... We just have trouble listening. Over in Jeremiah 25:4 (NLT) it says, "Again and again the LORD has sent you his servants, the prophets, but you have not listened or even paid attention." And Jeremiah went on to tell what was going to happen. There will be consequences if we do not listen to what God says through his Word. Now the Apostle Paul over in 1 Corinthians was having a problem with some professed Christ followers who were having trouble at listening. And we too can have problems at listening. We can think that being a Christ follower means we do a lot of finger pointing and we give up on people who don't do what we say. We can even do that in our families. But Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 13:7 (NLT), "Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance." In verse ...

Thursday... Yet, now this is true.

Colossians 1:22a (NLT), "Yet now he has reconciled you to himself through the death of Christ in his physical body." Thursday... Yet, now this is true. Now Paul a prisoner in Rome is writing a letter to a church in Colossae. And in Colossians 1:21 (MSG) he says, "Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds" The NLT says "This includes you who were once far away from God. You were his enemies, separated by your evil thoughts and actions." And that is where so many in this world live today. They are blowing it and they don't know what to do. Yes, they are hostile in their minds and they are engaging in evil deeds but there is Good News. Now Paul in verses 19-20 sets the stage for an answer to those who don't want to live that way. He says, "For God in all his fullness was pleased to live in Christ, and through him God reconciled everything to himself. He made peace with everything in heaven and earth b...

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