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Thursday... Yes, let them lead me.


Psalm 43:3 (MSG), "Send out your light and Your truth; let them lead me. Let them bring me to Your holy mountain and to the place where You dwell."

Thursday... Yes, let them lead me.

It is so important for us to at different times quit hiding our feelings and to be introspective and honest and ask the right questions and from that change our focus.


Now the writer of Psalm 43 asks himself some very good questions. Maybe you too need to ask these questions today. In verse 5a (NIV) he asks, "Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me?" And good questions are so important to ask but who we are asking the questions to is also important. Now the answer is so important and we need to be honest. So, why are we downcast and why are we so disturbed. Good questions

Now verse 3 says what we need before we ask these questions. The Message Paraphrase says, "Send out your light and Your truth; let them lead me. Let them bring me to Your holy mountain and to the place where You dwell." Yes God, please send out your light and your truth so that I can find where you are, so I can ask you these questions.

So much of life can keep us so downcast and so disturbed because our emotions are leading us. Again, "Send out your light and Your truth; let them lead me. Let them bring me to Your holy mountain and to the place "where You dwell."

Asking questions as to why we are feeling the way we are feeling in a negative way can just keep us in a dark place but if we are honest with God and ask him for light and the truth then we will now be ready to ask these questions.

Again, "Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me?" And because we have asked God for light and truth to where he is, the rest of verse tells us what to do.

Verse 5 says, "Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me?" It is so good to be honest but then the writer says, "Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God." Putting your hope in God instead of focusing on what has disturbed you and caused you to be downcast leads you to praise him for he is your Savior and your God. That is where God's light and truth will lead you, so then praise him.

Yes, let's change our focus by putting our hope on God and praising him because he is our Savior and our God.

"Send out your light and Your truth; let them lead me. Let them bring me to Your holy mountain and to the place where You dwell." Yes, let them lead me. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning



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