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Monday... He really wants us to be honest.


Psalms 102:2 (NLT), "Don't turn away from me in my time of distress. Bend down to listen, and answer me quickly, when I call to you."

Monday... He really wants us to be honest.

I really love the honesty of the Psalms. Psalms 102 is a prayer of someone who is overwhelmed with trouble, and they are pouring out their problems before the LORD. Could that be some of us today?


Now verse 1 (NLT) starts out by saying. "LORD, hear my prayer! Listen to my plea!" And maybe that is where some of us need to start. Just be honest. We need God. We need help.

The Psalmist goes on in verse 2, "Don't turn away from me in my time of distress. Bend down to listen, and answer me quickly, when I call to you." We are in distress and we need help right now.

Have you ever been in a situation that you can't handle but your pride gets in the way and so many times we turn to other things instead of God. Colossians 3:5 says, "So put to death the sinful, earthly things lurking within you. Have nothing to do with sexual immorality, impurity, lust, and evil desires. Don't be greedy, for a greedy person is an idolator, worshiping the things of this world." So many other things come to mind to take us away from being honest with God.

Again, God really wants us to be honest that we really need Him, to turn to Him, to really ask Him for help and believe that He will help us. It is so easy for us to get sidetracked.

In our times of great distress we are tempted to do things that turn us away from God and we use so many excuses. But God wants us to be really honest with Him and turn to Him and believe that he will bend down and listen to us and answer us.

Colossians 3:15a says, "And let the peace that comes from Christ rule in your hearts." And verse 16, "Let the message about Christ, in all its richness, fill your lives. Teach and counsel each other with all the wisdom he gives. Sing Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs to God with thankful hearts." Put our focus on what God through Christ has done. That will reinforce that he cares and will answer us in our distress.

So let's just be honest, "LORD, hear my prayer! Listen to my plea! Don't turn away from me in my time of distress. Bend down to listen, and answer me quickly, when I call to you." "And let the peace that comes from Christ rule in your hearts." So let's be honest that we need the LORD. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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