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Tuesday... If we could ask for anything what would it be?


Tuesday... If we could ask for anything what would it be?

I have read through the Psalms everyday for 40 years. Yes, I am old but this has been something that I have done that has really made a difference in the way I look at life. God through His prodding me and through His Holy Spirit has changed me through many ways but this has been one of the major tasks that has brought about great change in how I view life.

I had many years ago asked God to change the way I viewed life and He introduced me to King David and his Psalms. I was a negative, fearful, pessimistic perfectionist that God changed into a positive, faith based, uplifting person who started each day with an outlook of exciting anticipation.

Look at what David writes in Psalm 21:1 (NLT), "How the king rejoices in your strength, O Lord! He shouts with joy because you give him victory." Now that is the way to start each day.

And then verses 6-7 says, "You have endowed him with eternal blessings and given him joy of your presence. For the king trusts in the Lord. The unfailing love of the Most High will keep him from stumbling."

"You have endowed him with eternal blessings and given him joy of your presence."  The Amplified Bible says, "For You make him most blessed [and a blessing] forever; You make him joyful with the joy of Your presence." And that is so true. These Psalms are truly a blessing forever. They really are. 

And then he says, "You make him joyful with the joy of Your presence." At one point because of David's sin he was not joyful in God's presence but he found his way back to being joyful with the joy of God's presence and we can too. Yes we can.

And then verse 7 says, "For the king [confidently] trusts in the Lord, and through the lovingkindeness (faithfulness, goodness) of the Most High he will never be shaken." 

And there is the key, "For the king [confidently] trusts in the Lord, and through the lovingkindeness (faithfulness, goodness) of the Most High he will never be shaken." We can live a confident life by trusting in the Lord and His livingkindness which comes through His faithfulness and goodness and by holding on to that each day then we will never stumble. As the NIV puts it, "For the king trusts in the Lord; through the unfailing love of the Most High he will not be shaken."

Now that is the way to live this life. It really is.

Verses 4-7 (NIV) says, "He asked you for life, and you gave it to him - length of days, for ever and ever. Through the victories you gave, his glory is great; you have bestowed on him splendor and majesty. Surely you have granted him unending blessings and made him glad with the joy of your presence. For the king trusts in the Lord; through the unfailing love of the Most High he will not be shaken." And that can be true of us too. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning




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