A Prayer for Lifted Spirits When Your World Is Altering
By Keri Eichberger
Bible Studying
“You disclose to me the trail of life; you’ll fill me with pleasure in your presence, with everlasting pleasures at your proper hand. – Psalm 16:11
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With one swift click on of a mouse, my software was submitted. And my coronary heart and shoulders sank. I didn’t desire a new job. I’d grown fairly darn comfy with my present life. Opening myself as much as a place beneath another person’s rule and reign left me tremendous weak to an excessive amount of change. An unsure future that felt a lot much less in my management. It appeared to imply giving up my life for one thing that undoubtedly didn’t seem as fascinating. However after a lot processing and prayer, I believed this was the place the Lord was main. And he had at all times been trustworthy in my life, and all through the lives of the heroes of the religion I’d been admiring and studying from for many years, so I trusted his steering and took the leap. The one concern was this: it was actually arduous, and it harm.
How about you? Have you ever skilled, or are you dealing with proper now, some unsure life modifications? Are you coping with emotions of worry, discontentment, or discomfort via it, like I’m?
In Psalm 16:11, after the psalmist declares that God makes identified the trail of life, simply as he directed me down my particular path, he declares that the Lord fills us with pleasure. Pleasure. I may use a few of that. You? And the place does he say the enjoyment is discovered? In God‘s presence. Properly, you and I each know that God is at all times current, so why don’t we at all times really feel pleasure? I consider it has so much to do with us not at all times acknowledging his presence and never noticing, or failing to give attention to, the place he’s exhibiting up round us. For me, and perhaps you too, we are likely to gravitate our ideas towards our issues as a substitute of fixing our eyes on him. Wanting, searching for, and looking out arduous for his blessings.
The verse finishes with a magnification of what that pleasure appears like as we turn out to be extra conscious of God, calling it “everlasting pleasures at your proper hand.” Pleasures. The very issues we expect we’re going to miss or forfeit as we comply with new paths and stroll into life change. I hope it encourages you to know that wherever God is current—in all places—pleasure, blessings, and pleasures may even be. We simply must maintain our gaze his means.
Go searching the place you might be proper now. Are you able to see them? His blessings? Maintain wanting. They’re there proper now, my good friend. And they’re going to comply with you thru each single season and alter you proceed to come across.
Let’s pray:
Lord of Hope, You provide such pleasure in your presence. Everlasting pleasures—too many to rely. Oh, how I need to search, discover, and give attention to them. However too usually, I get so consumed with what’s altering—with the comforts I’ve held too tightly too—that I lose sight of you, and permit my spirits to sulk and my outlook to dim. You know the way arduous change will be for me. and see my coronary heart. And it grieves you after I turn out to be disheartened. However you might be extra current than ever, providing continuous consolation and compassion. Assist me to relaxation in your love and discover pleasure in your very presence as I acknowledge you. And acknowledge all you’ve performed, all you’re doing, and all you’re pouring out in nice love with ceaseless generosity. Assist me discover pleasure as I maintain my eyes on you. Lord, thanks to your uplifting presence that by no means leaves. In your ever-present title, Amen.
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