What guides us? How do we know what to follow as we go through our day and make choices? Psalm 43 has answers. O send out Your light and Your truth, let them lead me; Let them bring me to Your holy hill And to Your dwelling places. Psalms 43:3 NASB https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.43.3.NASB We are to follow the light and the truth. Jesus Christ is these for us as he says in John 14:6. God’s word is the truth that we need to know how to love our lives daily. Jesus Christ and God’s Word, together with the guidance of the Holy Spirit are what brings us more toward God’s holiness…

He is with us. We’ve heard this statement, probably even said this statement, but do we believe this statement and act like it is true? See Psalm 42. The Lord will command His lovingkindness in the daytime; And His song will be with me in the night, A prayer to the God of my life. Psalms 42:8 NASB https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.42.8.NASB He commands his lovingkindness in the daytime and his song at night. The Lord showers us with all that He is because He knows that we need Him. He is the God of our life and without Him, we don’t have a life. Do we rest in His lovingkindness and rejoice…

Ever been let down? How about betrayed? Had people turn against you?  We have all experienced this at some time or another in our lives. It hurts. A lot. David knew all about that feeling too and writes about it in Psalm 41. Even my close friend in whom I trusted, Who ate my bread, Has lifted up his heel against me. As for me, You uphold me in my integrity, And You set me in Your presence forever. Psalms 41:9‭, ‬12 NASB https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.41.9-12.NASB Often we try to get even with those who are against us and have wronged us. We spend our time trying to justify ourselves to each…

Made new. When we start looking at all the things we have messed up in our lives, the idea that we can be made new is exciting and sometimes unbelievable. Yet that is exactly what psalm 40 talks about. He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay, And He set my feet upon a rock making my footsteps firm. Psalms 40:2 NASB https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.40.2.NASB God knows us. He knows that we are a mess and that we have problems and sin that surrounds us and has affected us. Yet, God still combed and provides a way of forgiveness and mercy that includes restoration. He…

News flash, we’re not perfect. I’m not perfect. You’re not perfect.  The sooner we all come to terms with that, the better off we will be. When we do mess up, we need to ask for forgiveness. See Psalm 39. “Deliver me from all my transgressions; Make me not the reproach of the foolish. Psalms 39:8 NASB https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.39.8.NASB Why is forgiveness so important? Besides the obvious answer that it restores our relationship and fellowship with God, we all have people who watch us. They know what we say we believe and they want to know if it is real for us in every situation, the good and the bad. Is…

We all mess up from time to time. Unfortunately, the world is full of people who are just waiting to see us fall. David knew what that felt like and wrote about it in Psalm chapter 38. For I said, “May they not rejoice over me, Who, when my foot slips, would magnify themselves against me.” For I am ready to fall, And my sorrow is continually before me. For I confess my iniquity; I am full of anxiety because of my sin. Psalms 38:16‭-‬18 NASB https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.38.16-18.NASB His prayer to God asks that others would not rejoice in his sins or praise his wrongdoings. Doing something wrong is bad enough,…

What do you desire? Do you even know what your goals and dreams are? Or, like many of us, have you forgotten how to dream for things in the future? God knows what are deepest desires are. He talks about it in Psalm 37. Delight yourself in the Lord ; And He will give you the desires of your heart. Psalms 37:4 NASB https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.37.4.NASB Not only does God know what we truly and desperately desire, he wants to give it to us. As we are delighting ourselves in Jesus Christ and all that God has provided for us, he commits to giving us the desires of our heart. Will we…

How much love does God have? How often can we rely on his faithfulness? As it turns out, these qualities don’t just describe God, they are the very definition of who He is. See Psalm chapter 36. Your lovingkindness, O Lord , extends to the heavens, Your faithfulness reaches to the skies. Psalms 36:5 NASB https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.36.5.NASB The love of God can’t be measured because God himself is the very definition of love. His faithfulness is a core of who He is. We can trust that He will do all that He says He will do because of the character of who He is.

HAPPY RESURRECTION SUNDAY!! Jesus Christ lives and today we celebrate this truth! As we look at Psalm 35, we see David celebrating the truth of a living God as well. And my tongue shall declare Your righteousness And Your praise all day long. Psalms 35:28 NASB https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.35.28.NASB Do we praise God for who He is? He is the one who has created all things and who is truth. He is worthy of our praise and worthy of all we have to offer Him. He is our strength and our salvation and we are to declare His praise all day long!

Who praises God with us? We can be focused on praising God for all he does for us, but we are not designed to praise him alone. See Psalm 34 O magnify the Lord with me, And let us exalt His name together. Psalms 34:3 NASB https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.34.3.NASB We are to be inviting others into the presence of the Lord and to hear others as they give glory to God. We can be examining his name together with others. Will we seek out others and invite them to worship God with us?