As I was doing my devotions this morning, the following piece of Psalm 25 leaped off the page and into my heart.
In you, LORD my God,
I put my trust.
2 I trust in you;
do not let me be put to shame,
nor let my enemies triumph over me.
3 No one who hopes in you
will ever be put to shame,
but shame will come on those
who are treacherous without cause.
4 Show me your ways, LORD,
teach me your paths.
5 Guide me in your truth and teach me,
for you are God my Savior,
and my hope is in you all day long.
6 Remember, LORD, your great mercy and love,
for they are from of old.
7 Do not remember the sins of my youth
and my rebellious ways;
according to your love remember me,
for you, LORD, are good.
I trust in YOU. In that trust there is hope and the relience that God will show us the way. It is not trust with the absence of belief and it is not trust with the absence of a desire to folllow and obey.
Obedience to God is the manifestation of our trust.
Guide us, teach us, You are God my Savior and my hope is fixed on you all day long.
The Psalmist had a God-awareness even while he went about his day, he was still fixed on the hope of God in his heart. He knew the Lord was good.
Prayer: Lord, help me to trust in you and set my hope on you. Help me to not be put to shame by the enemies of my life, even myself (I can be my own worse enemy) Thank you for your great mercy and love. Amen.
