To You I Lift Up My Soul

To You, O LORD, I lift up my soul. O my God, in You I trust, Do not let me be ashamed; Do not let my enemies exult over me. Psalm 25:1-2

The psalms are beautiful. In reading them we are comforted by the mind and heart of the Lord who gave them to us through his servants.

The Lord understands everything about us. He understands the highs and lows that we experience even on a daily basis. He realizes and gives the dreams and aspirations of the heart that we have and he tests our hearts.

He knows the enemies that we fight—that is the sinful nature that we are at warfare with. The struggles that we have with fear, with anger, with doubt, and with self centeredness.

At times we seem to come to a breaking point. A point in our lives when the choice is before us to either be righteous or to be unrighteous. To do our will or the Lord’s will; to escape from the true prison of self inducement or to be free in the confines of our Heavenly Father’s commandments and statues.

When taken to task we can give in or give up. We can say to our hearts that the race is too hard and that His words are too taxing. Our momentary relenting we find only drowns us in even more sorrow of the heart and spirit.

Yet, God is faithful and He will not relent; God will never give up on you or I. His Spirit will prompt us to read a psalm and in the reading we are encouraged. We ask forgiveness and we comment ourselves to obeying instead of striving. To a relationship instead of a list of do’s and don’ts and in harmony with God we find our peace.

God knows your heart better than you know it yourself and what He sees working and growing in your heart—He loves.