THANKFUL

Chatting with Jesus

Monday, October 14, 2024

Lord, those close to the psalmist kept after him. “Man, what are you doing? Have you lost your mind?” His friends tried to reason with him. “Abandoning God’s ways isn’t working out for you, is it?” they warned. Those who loved him prayed he would come back to sanity and abandon his stubbornness. He was headed toward a cliff.

Like many believers, we go through a period of questioning our beliefs. Does God really care about me? Am I on the right track? Are my convictions really true? What am I missing out on by committing to follow you, Jesus?

Examining the psalmist up and down spiritual walk with you, we see how much we are like him. After all, like us, he was a believer. Maybe he took for granted that you would bless his actions whether they were in your plans or not. Often, Lord, you and the psalmist were not on the same page, or should I say, on the same scroll. That scenario so resembles me.

Scripture tells of the psalmist’s plight when he wandered from you. Everything that could go wrong went wrong. Lord, you loved him too much to allow him to continue down that destructive path. In mercy, You opened his spiritual eyes and he acknowledged his folly:

I pondered the direction of my life and turned to follow Your laws. Psalm 119:59

Lord, may I learn from the psalmist’s experience. When I ponder my life’s direction, forgive my wandering. Help me keep my mind steadied on you and your precepts. As the psalmist discovered, so have I. True happiness and contentment is found by living for you, Jesus.

Amen.