83 O God, do not keep silence;
do not hold your peace or be still, O God!
Sunday night. Discouraged.
Discouragement is such a strange thing. It can creep up on a person like a surprise attack from behind. That is what it feels like tonight. It can knock a person’s legs right out from underneath them.
I am holding on to this verse from Psalm 83 tonight. I am preaching to myself the things that I know are truth. There is a God. I am adopted into His family. His love for me is deeper than the ocean. He sees and knows. He sees and knows. He sees and knows.
Sometimes it seems as if God is so silent. That’s why this verse captured my mind and soul today while reading my daily Bible reading selection. We are invited by the Psalmists to look over their shoulders and read their jounalings, their prayers to the same God that we worship and pray to today. And in doing so, we find words for our own soul when perhaps our own words fail. That’s the case with this verse for me tonight. It expresses the longing of my heart to hear from my God, to experience His peace, to know that He is not still.
I am so thankful for God’s word. My faith at times is so weak, that I can’t envision faith at all apart from God’s word. I am thankful for friends, for family that encourage and pray for me daily. I am thankful for my crew, who give me reason to keep pushing forward. I am thankful that a day will come when we will all go Home and know a peace that supercedes even the peace that God grants us in this life.
83 O God, do not keep silence;
do not hold your peace or be still, O God!