April 21

Today’s Psalms are again about being pursued and reviled by enemies. However I noticed that in most of them there was a thread of; my enemy WAS my friend. How awful is that when a friend turns into an enemy. Someone you shared life with turns on you and raises up false witness against you and tries to bring you down in others eyes. The pain is multiplied isn’t it? Those people are wicked! (That is what David calls them).

The first thing that stuck out was;

In my integrity you uphold me
and set me in your presence forever. (Psalm 41:12)

There is much to say about this, but God is telling me that integrity is a must. It is super important for me to have integrity in everything. In fact God uses it as a handle of sorts to uphold me and set me in His presence! In the days we live, when someone’s word means little and their character is shifted by circumstances rather than firm in principle, I must live with integrity.

I’ll end with something that is a reoccurring theme in my life. David says to himself, (paraphrased for Psalm 43), “why are you so bummed out, why are you depressed? Put your hope in God – In fact I will praise Him through all of it because He is my God and the one who saves me not only from this circumstance, but from death itself!” Talk yourself through it – that is what the Lord is saying to me. Don’t just sit in it and soak, talk yourself THROUGH it and come out the other side with priase!