Psalm 28
The LORD Is My Strength and My Shield
OF DAVID.
To you, O LORD, I call; my rock, be not deaf to me, lest, if you be silent to me, I become like those who go down to the pit.
Hear the voice of my pleas for mercy, when I cry to you for help, when I lift up my hands toward your most holy sanctuary.
I thank my God, my Father, particularly in this season where I have noticed a lot of organizing happening. Thoughts are being revealed, and though I usually have the propensity to fret over how to record everything that does come up, for some reason, I am not anxious – I am at peace, learning in this season that not only does the Lord lead the right thoughts to our minds, but He also guides us to which ones, out of all these thoughts, are those to prioritize.
For thoughts and revelations are not only given in this season, but the Lord, in His timeless and everlasting wisdom, organizes all we have in our minds as well. And not only does He prove Himself a good steward to our entire being by way of taking and arranging our thoughts, but I see Him moving our circumstances, moving our opportunities; He’s also been moving people in our lives, ensuring that they are ushered into new seasons of their own; being the God who loves us all, I believe He gives deep and preferential treatment to all of us, and miraculously just works it all together for good.
I’ve written of a season of prayer – and I have been praying, though not as much as before. But it’s as if the Lord responded by way of organization – this season of clarification and arranging. To that, I say, I am thankful – the Psalmist calls out, but I give praise and thanks, knowing that in His perfect timing and wisdom, He DOES answer when I call… and when we call, take heart! Our God, our Rock answers us.
Do not drag me off with the wicked, with the workers of evil, who speak peace with their neighbors while evil is in their hearts.
Give to them according to their work and according to the evil of their deeds; give to them according to the work of their hands; render them their due reward.
Because they do not regard the works of the LORD or the work of his hands, he will tear them down and build them up no more.
While I have mentioned that even people and relationships have been clarified and/or rearranged in this season, nobody comes to mind, in terms of the wicked – that, or I lack discernment in figuring out who has evil in their hearts, or in their deeds.
…but honestly, should I be worrying? For surely as our Father has responded to our prayers, He does as the Psalmist asks – Whether we are aware of their hearts or oblivious to their deeds, behold: even before we see them coming, the Lord has already dealt with the wicked. In so far as what concerns us, we know that He does not allow their plans to succeed… yet, in the back of our minds, we are aware that our God is as all-loving as He is all-powerful – surely, His Spirit moves in their lives as well, so they would see His goodness that leads to repentance; His Spirit moves that they would see Christ, as well.
Blessed be the LORD! For he has heard the voice of my pleas for mercy.
The LORD is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.
The LORD is the strength of his people; he is the saving refuge of his anointed.
I’m reminded at this moment that we can trust in the Lord… and I continue to trust in Him, in the face of all that’s going on. I know that we’ve celebrated Thanksgiving recently, but as we go through today’s Psalm, I’m brought to do some Trust-giving:
That is, in this moment, I trust the Lord for my safety, as I wait for the moon to rise over the horizon this evening. I trust the Lord, as people and cars pass by.
I trust the Lord, even as I do see the light of the moon on the clouds. I trust Him, even in my heightened emotions to end all I’m typing right now, to ready my camera.
I trust the Lord, to make me fast, sharp and accurate in the photos I do take. I trust the Lord for wisdom to handle what has been captured.
I trust the Lord, for all the other things I could be doing right now – I trust the Lord, knowing that the omnipresent Creator is as involved in all that involves me, just as He is present with me right here, right now.
I actually thank the Lord, in that regard, because of the Truth that He not only saves all of my being… but behold, now I realize He is the Salvation present in all that involves me.
I trust in the Lord, Giving Him all my anxieties.
Oh, save your people and bless your heritage!
Be their shepherd and carry them forever.
It’s more than 24 hours later, and I just have to keep on going. For, see, I shared a little bit of this to some of our folks in the weekly prayer meeting, and what came out was yet another one of those… oh, what can I call them? Coins? Coins, like you can’t have heads without tails. No, that’s that one thought process where I say that when you say point A, you are also saying NOT point B. No, this is more of – there it is, a parallel – where I say that you can’t have A without B, you can’t say A without saying B.
In this case, we’ve determined that you can’t engage in thanksgiving without trusting in the Lord, nor can you say you trust in the Lord without a hint of thanksgiving. Trust and thanks come together. When you trust in the Lord, you give thanks, and when you give thanks, you trust in the Lord.
And with that said, I must keep going forward. For I trust in the Lord, and in light of what was just determined, I also thank Him for His presence, and therefore His wisdom in all that’s going on in my life, in all this rearranging that’s happening.
I’m trusting in the Lord, and I am thanking Him for the right thoughts, the right words, and the right responses, to all the upcoming planning sessions in these leadership circles I’m a part of – after all, these plans are approaches to arranging and re-arranging, as I’ve mentioned.
I’m thanking the Lord, and therefore trusting Him and His faithfulness, present in me; In light of changes in social ties, relationships and posturing, and the ensuing, consequent escalation of thoughts (thoughts of crippling regret, fear of the unknown, the pressure to make moves, plus the anxiety of overthinking the details behind the moves and words to say, crowned with the fear of losing it all, again… oh, among so many other thoughts), again, I am thankful, and I am throwing all trust I could possibly squeeze out of my being to my Maker and my Savior, that He would just be the Peace that is Power in my external circumstances, just as He would show Himself mightily as the Power, that is the Peace in all my internal conflicts.
Oh, indeed, I thank the Lord – my Lord, and my God! For He is faithful, as a great, engulfing wave of Grace, slamming upon all that concerns me with absolute authority… My Father is true, as a still, immovable Rock, on whom I am not moved – My Lord, and my God, He is Faithful, and He is True – All that is good for me, all at once! And in the light of all I’ve restrained myself from doing, that I could give more of my being and existence to intentionally seek Him – well, He HAS been faithful, by way of revelation; Both giving revelation, and BEING my Revelation.
He is my Strength.
He is my Shield.
Thank You, Father.
Until the next post, God bless you.
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