Psalms
60 – 62
Verse 60:7 opens my eyes how God works on this earth:
Gilead belongs to
Me, and so does Manasseh;
Ephraim
is the helmet that protects My head;
Judah
is the scepter through which I rule;
Notice in this verse and the next one God
talks about how he uses nations to work for him. Judah, the tribe of David and
the linage of Jesus has always meant to rule. I think it’s cool how this
personifies God, but at the same time shows He is beyond bounds. You may need
to read verses 60:6-8 a few time to see if either I am nuts or you observe it
the same way. Either way we see how God uses nations and people to do his
bidding, not necessarily just coming down and doing it supernaturally.
Verse 61:2 is one that we need to realize:
You are the One I
will call when pushed to the edge,
when
my heart is faint.
Shoulder
me to the rock above me.
This is so true as we get pushed to the
edge most have a “come to Jesus” moment and try to fix it all then.
Unfortunately, more often than not, we need to have that moment BEFORE we get
pushed to the edge. I know many salvations are in crisis, yet slowly slip after
things get back to normal. We need to rely on God not while on the edge, but
during our day to day lives. Once you can rely on God to help you through the
mundane, the heart attack is no big deal.
Verse 62:2 is so important it’s repeated in
verse 6:
He alone is my
rock and my deliverance,
my
citadel high on the hill; I will not be shaken.
One thing we have to remember is this
messed up world we live in with our flawed lives has one unmovable standard,
God. We tend to take the flaws and focus on why God is not correcting them,
where often times it’s just life. Sure we have bad hearts, accidents and cancer
show up in our lives but it’s not that God is orchestrating it, but rather it’s
just happening. See our bodies are flawed or lives are not perfect and that is
where our connection with God must be. See God is the perfect rock we must rest
our broken and weary bodies on.