Wednesday... Yes, he did and yes I will!

Psalm 30:1 (NLT), "I will exalt you, Lord, for you rescued me. You refused to let my enemies triumph over me."

Wednesday... Yes, he did and yes I will!

There is a part in our lives that God plays and there is a part that we play. We get into trouble. We maybe lose our job and we turn to God out of desperation because he has rescued us before and we believe that he will again. But what have we done?

David wrote Psalm 30 for the dedication of the Temple. Verse 1 (NLT) says, "I will exalt you, Lord, for you rescued me. You refused to let my enemies triumph over me." David starts with his part. He says, "I will exalt you, Lord." And that is so important for us to do.

We so many times exalt the trouble we are going through. It are so heavy, it puts us in so much despair and discouragement. Yes, we exalt our problems. But David exalted the Lord.

Too many times our problems get us down when God wants us to look up, to exalt him.

Now why does he exalt the Lord? It is because the Lord has rescued him. He remembers what God has done and it lifts him up.

We are going through some tough times in our family and how we handled them depends upon our focus. Yes, we got some tough news heading back from California to Las Vegas where we live and there was some discouragement. Yes, we have a load on us but we also have a God who has rescued us over and over.

"I will exalt you, Lord, for you rescued me. You refused to let my enemies triumph over me." I love that. "You refused to let my enemies triumph over me." Again, "You refused to let my enemies triumph over me."

Do you need to be reminded of that today? By the way, God is working in our situation. He really is.

Verses 2-3 in The Message says, "God, my God, I yelled for help and you put me together. God, you pulled me out of the grave, gave me another chance at life when I was down-and-out." Yes, David was down but he also remembered and exalted the Lord. Verse 1 in The Message says, "I give you all the credit - you got me out of that mess, you didn't let my foes gloat."

Yes, the Lord did rescue me and I will exalt him, and I will give him the credit. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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