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Thursday... It is so good to be right.


Psalm 79:9 (NLT), "Help us, O God of our salvation! Help us for the glory of your name. Save us and forgive our sins for the honor of your name."

Thursday... It is so good to be right.

Psalm 79:10 (MSG) says, "Don't let the heathen get by with their sneers: 'Where's your God? Is he out to lunch?'" Yes, some people love to put other people down. They think they are so smart. Yes, too many don't believe in God. They put their total trust in themselves. But I have found that it is so good to be right. Have you found that to be true?


Oh, we go through difficult times and in those times we can waver in our beliefs. But we have a God who we believe in and it is not us. And we can know by faith that we are right in our belief in God and it is so good to know that we are right no matter what we are going through.

Now the writer of this Psalm was going through some difficult times and he may have been wavering but he says in verse 8 (MSG), "Don't blame us for the sins of our parents. Hurry up and help us; we'e at the end of our rope." Yes, if we don't believe then we can blame but if we believe we can say, "Hurry up and help us; we'e at the end of our rope."

The New Living Translation say verse 9 this way, "Help us, O God of our salvation! Help us for the glory of your name. Save us and forgive our sins for the honor of your name."

The Message says, "You're famous for helping; God, give us a break. Your reputation is on the line. Pull us out of this mess, forgive us our sins - do what you're famous for doing!"

Verses 12-13 says, "O Lord, pay back our neighbors seven times for the scorn they have hurled at you. Then we your people, the sheep of your pasture, will thank you forever and ever, praising your greatness from generation to generation."

Yes, God, thank you so much for reinforcing in us that we are right in our believing in you. And our being right is not for our glory but to reinforce how great you are! Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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