Surrender
I mentioned today on my Facebook status that I am not a very politically-minded person...it's as if I'm just not wired that way. BUT I AM, or often tend to be, an anxious-minded person. Despite my "poitical disability", I did my best to research and make an informed vote today (and counted my blessings that I live in a place that I do have this freedom!). Even so, the "aura" of the day got the best of me. In the sea of political rant and rave today, I struggled to understand which voice was right and wrong, good and bad (or dare I say evil and less evil?). EVERY ONE believes that their opinion is the best and right opinion and all day, I struggled to have an opinion or figure out which mine was in the chaos of political signs and ballots and friends comments and news and radio announcements...
Needing to ground myself, I decided to put down my phone where I was watching election results (or rather switch to a different app!) and spend my time in the Word of God...
Psalm 146 (New Living Translation)...
Praise the Lord!
Let all that I am praise the Lord.
I will praise the Lord as long as I live.
I will sing praises to my God with my dying breath.
Don’t put your confidence in powerful people;
there is no help for you there.
When they breathe their last, they return to the earth,
and all their plans die with them.
But joyful [I see NO ANXIOUS here] are those who have the God of Israel as their helper,
whose hope is in the Lord their God.
He made heaven and earth,
the sea, and everything in them.
He keeps every promise forever.
He gives justice to the oppressed
and food to the hungry.
The Lord frees the prisoners.
The Lord opens the eyes of the blind.
The Lord lifts up those who are weighed down.
The Lord loves the godly.
The Lord protects the foreigners among us.
He cares for the orphans and widows,
but he frustrates the plans of the wicked.
The Lord will reign forever.
He will be your God, O Jerusalem, throughout the generations.
Praise the Lord!
And then I felt a nudge to open my Elevation Church App, having no clue what most recent sermon I would stumble across...
You too should go here right now and listen to this!
And now "as I lay me down to sleep," I unclinch my anxious fists and sleep with open upraised palms, knowing that despite whatever world I wake up to tomorrow morning, I SURRENDER to the King above all Kings. Amen.
Needing to ground myself, I decided to put down my phone where I was watching election results (or rather switch to a different app!) and spend my time in the Word of God...
Psalm 146 (New Living Translation)...
Praise the Lord!
Let all that I am praise the Lord.
I will praise the Lord as long as I live.
I will sing praises to my God with my dying breath.
Don’t put your confidence in powerful people;
there is no help for you there.
When they breathe their last, they return to the earth,
and all their plans die with them.
But joyful [I see NO ANXIOUS here] are those who have the God of Israel as their helper,
whose hope is in the Lord their God.
He made heaven and earth,
the sea, and everything in them.
He keeps every promise forever.
He gives justice to the oppressed
and food to the hungry.
The Lord frees the prisoners.
The Lord opens the eyes of the blind.
The Lord lifts up those who are weighed down.
The Lord loves the godly.
The Lord protects the foreigners among us.
He cares for the orphans and widows,
but he frustrates the plans of the wicked.
The Lord will reign forever.
He will be your God, O Jerusalem, throughout the generations.
Praise the Lord!
And then I felt a nudge to open my Elevation Church App, having no clue what most recent sermon I would stumble across...
You too should go here right now and listen to this!
And now "as I lay me down to sleep," I unclinch my anxious fists and sleep with open upraised palms, knowing that despite whatever world I wake up to tomorrow morning, I SURRENDER to the King above all Kings. Amen.
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