Today's Beginning

Wednesday... We sometimes come with desperation and that's ok! King David wrote many of the Psalms in the Old Testament of the Bible and he had many, many desperate moments. And he wrote Psalm 54 in one of those moments. Are you desperate today? Life can come down hard on us and there doesn't seem to be anything that we can do but David says there is. Psalm 54:1-2 (NLT) says, "Come with great power, O God, and rescue me! Defend me with your might. Listen to my prayer, O God. Pay attention to my plea."  David was hiding from King Saul who was wanting to kill him. King Saul had not followed God as a king and he knew that God had chosen David to be the new king so he wanted to kill him and some people had told Saul where David was hiding so David was desperate. So many things can be happening in your life and you are desperate. Now God has great power and he can take care of us in any situation that we are facing. Yes he can but he wants us to pray to him and that can be...

Tuesday... He was in a tight spot and he was desperate. David in Psalm 54:1-2 (MSG) says, "God, for your sake, help me! Use you influence to clear me. Listen, God - I'm desperate. Don't be too busy to hear me." It is interesting what we will say when we are in a desperate situation. That is when we really get serious, isn't it? He goes on, verse 3, "Outlaws are out to get me, hit men are trying to kill me. Nothing will stop them; God means nothing to them." Maybe that is where you are today. Oh maybe not hit men are involved or people trying to kill you but you really do feel that your back is up against the wall and you are desperate. And that is usually when we strive to do something and for sure it is usually when we turn to God.  Verse 4 says, "Oh, look!" and there is the problem too many times. We are looking but we are looking at the wrong thing. What we are looking at is what we are seeing. And if it is anything other than God then it is...