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Wednesday... Such great pictures!


Psalm 110:7 (AMP), "He will drink from the brook by the wayside; Therefore He will lift up His head [triumphantly]."

Wednesday... Such great pictures!

David in Psalm 110 gives us two pictures that helps in times of difficult battles, and David it seems was always in a battle. Now, much of them came from his time of disobedience. Yes, our battles sometimes come as consequences of our disobedience but if we repent God also gives us encouragement, strength and victory.

In verse 1 (AMP) David writes, "The LORD (Father) says to my Lord (the Messiah, His Son), 'Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet [subjugating them into complete submission].'" Yes, God is on His throne looking down.

But then at the end of this short Psalm David writes in verse 7, "He will drink from the brook by the wayside; Therefore He will lift up His head [triumphantly]." And both of them are great pictures that maybe we need to stop and picture and be encouraged.


Yes, God the Father and Jesus the Son are sitting side by side on their thrones ready to take care of what we are going through and then a picture of a brook and as the NLT puts it, "But he himself will be refreshed from brooks along the way. He will be victorious."

Those are great pictures. Psalm 23:2-3a says, "He lets me rest in green meadows; he leads me beside peaceful streams. He renews my strength."

Listen we are not alone. If we believe and put our trust in God then we are not alone and He wants to encourage us.

Yes, battles happen. Yes God and Jesus are on their thrones looking down on us and David gives us that picture and also a picture of a stream to calm us down and lift us up.

We have lived in Denver and Colorado Springs, Colorado. Now this last time we lived there, Margaret and I did a lot of stream searching. We even found some of their beginnings and then followed then through canyons and finally into rivers. Now most of the times they weren't peaceful streams but every once in a while we found that calm stream and that was so awesome, the power and also the calm. And that is a great picture of God and what we at different times need.

The NIRV says, "He will drink from a brook along the way and receive new strength."

Now we live in a desert and most of our streams are underground but I still can be strengthen from dwelling in my mind on a picture of drinking from a brook. So just stop and picture it and let God give you new strength, And in this day in which we live especially in the battles we need new strength, don't we?

So here are two great pictures to meditate on! Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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