Monday... But we can handle it in a different way.

Monday... But we can handle it in a different way. Yes we can.

David, after a night of having King Saul sending out men to kill him, writes this Psalm, Psalm 59. Near the end of the Psalm he says in verse 16 (NLT), "But as for me." When bad things happen to us usually we go to pieces, don't we? But we can be different, we can handle it in a different way.

David said, "But as for me, I will sing about your power." Not their power, not all the junk that is being thrown our way, not all the negative news that we are feeding on, "But as for me, I will sing about your power." Now God understands what negative stuff we are going through. But as we read His Word on a daily basis, He shows us examples of how to handle what we are going through in a different way. "But as for me, I will sing about your power." David focused on the power of God not the power of King Saul.

David goes on, "Each morning I will sing with joy about your unfailing love. For you have been my refuge, a place of safety when I am in distress," Verse 17, "O my Strength, to you I sing praises, for you, Oh God, are my refuge." You have been my refuge before and you are my refuge again.

Let me ask you, how has God taken care of you before? Has there been a time during this pandemic or in other major difficulties in your life that God was there with you, that He was a refuge in your storm? Don't you believe that He will be again, that He is your refuge now?

Remember, "Each morning I will sing with joy about your unfailing love" and then verse 17, "Oh my Strength, I will sing praises, for you O God, are my refuge, the God who shows me unfailing love." I will sing with joy about your unfailing love and I will sing praises to the God who shows me unfailing love.

We can be handle it in a different way, this day can be different. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning.

He goes on,

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