Anti-Stress Attitude

I don't have much to write today that will be of any consequence to any but myself. It's almost midterm, and it will be amazing if anyone has the time enough to read this post, but I wanted to post this verse anyways.

Hear my cry, O God;

Attend to my prayer.

From the end of the earth I will cry to You,

When my heart is overwhelmed;

Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

For You have been a shelter for me,

A strong tower from the enemy.

I will abide in Your tabernacle forever;

I will trust in the shelter of Your wings.

Selah

Psalm 61:1-4

One of the reasons I chose this verse is to remind us that God is a higher rock, He isn't going to move or be budged, and we have the assurance that He will always love us and take care of us.

The other reason is this; I have wondered, sometimes whether, when king David says "I will" do something, he might not be trying to assure himself that he would do it more than anything else. Because, as neat a dude as David was, anyone who reads the Psalms can see how very human he was. To trust in the shelter of God's wings is easier said than done. Yeah, you try it for a day, for a whole day, and kudos to you if you can fully trust in God for more than half of it without a single doubt or worry.
Maybe David is having some doubts too, and is trying to talk himself out of them, turning his mind from the possibility of failure, which, with God's help can't really happen, on the other hand, there are many definitions of said. Not only that, but by swearing to do so, he was held accountable by God. Fortunately for him, God is merciful.

I think too often, the failure that we, as Christians, are worried about, is one that might be caused by our failing to hear God correctly. Man, that's tough, how do we know whether it is God we are hearing, as apposed to our own imaginations? But God is a higher rock, He prepared for all eventualities, and even knows what we shall do before we do it, be it following Him and trusting Him completely, or sometimes going the wrong way. We can't fail, we can mess up, yes, and we need to try to be better, but God will love us even when we do mess up.

We need to trust in God, more than we trust in the "possibility" of failure. To set our minds on what we have to do, but remember that what we have to do, we have to do it trusting God. Remember that our failures can only be that by the world's standard, and nothing that will really kill us. On hard days we need to think, "I will do this, what've I got to loose, He'll love me anyways."

~Triss