Tiny Thots: Spoken and heard | 11.15.10

What I'm hearing today:

 ¹¹ One thing God has spoken,
   two things have I heard:
that you, O God, are strong,
 ¹² and that you, O Lord, are loving.  Psalm 62:11-12

One decision can change the way you look at the whole day and every day after.

"Life is not about easy but about trust." - my friend Margie

Musing about Psalm 62 - when God speaks his word, we can hear both his strength and his love. How often in human voices do we only hear one or the other, or see one overcome by the other? Exhibited, combined and simultaneous strength and love is an attribute of God that becomes incorporated into our marrow and muscle as we draw closer and closer to him.

Given that, whenever a decision within the scope of our lives is made in good faith that earnestly looks for God's guidance, we can trust God's strength and love — despite the way that decision may dramatically alter how I see future before me. Again, as Margie so wisely said, "Life is not about easy but about trust." If I know God's strength and love, then I have every reason to trust.

Jeremiah 29:11 — For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

Psalm 62  

     For the director of music. For Jeduthun. A psalm of David.

 ¹ My soul finds rest in God alone;
   my salvation comes from him.
² He alone is my rock and my salvation;
   he is my fortress, I will never be shaken.

 ³ How long will you assault a man?
   Would all of you throw him down—
   this leaning wall, this tottering fence?
⁴ They fully intend to topple him
   from his lofty place;
   they take delight in lies.
With their mouths they bless,
   but in their hearts they curse. Selah

 ⁵ Find rest, O my soul, in God alone;
   my hope comes from him.
⁶ He alone is my rock and my salvation;
   he is my fortress, I will not be shaken.
⁷ My salvation and my honor depend on God;
   he is my mighty rock, my refuge.
⁸ Trust in him at all times, O people;
   pour out your hearts to him,
   for God is our refuge.  Selah

 ⁹ Lowborn men are but a breath,
   the highborn are but a lie;
if weighed on a balance, they are nothing;
   together they are only a breath.
¹⁰ Do not trust in extortion
   or take pride in stolen goods;
though your riches increase,
   do not set your heart on them.

 ¹¹ One thing God has spoken,
   two things have I heard:
that you, O God, are strong,
 ¹² and that you, O Lord, are loving.
Surely you will reward each person
   according to what he has done.

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