Answer Me When I Call
To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments.
A Psalm of David.
If you're anything like me, emotions range in the course of a day or a week. We go from elated to concerned to peaceful to stressed and back again. At times you're resting peacefully & content, at other times your mind is racing with the things you need to do. It can feel like we're a craft on a sea, tossed by the waves.
The Psalms range as well. They're beautiful in how they reflect real life, and through it all we see God's consistent involvement, never straying far from us. Here, the Psalmist notes that true joy, lasting joy, comes from God alone -- everything else will fade. We realize this at times, in our wisdom, when we see how the rich and famous have struggles as well -- money doesn't solve problems. We like to fool ourselves and think that it will, and it does solve some problems, but to lie down at night and sleep in peace? Money cannot buy that. Rich foods and fine wine cannot provide that. God can provide that, for true safety comes from God. There is nothing that can tear us from the arms of God, and that truth can give us the peace we need to lie down and find true rest.
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