Psalms 18:1-2 

Posted on by Just broken

1 I love you, O LORD, my strength. 2 The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

Ponder the words “I love you Lord”. How much time do we spend there? “You are my strength”. Is He your strength or are you your strength? I know He is way, way, way, way, way, way stronger than I am.

“The Lord is my rock, my fortress, my deliverer”. Rock, fortress, deliverer, shield, salvation, stronghold. – sounds like solid protection.  Protection from what? The trouble of the world or from a battle?

Question – if you’re using these purely out of a defensive position, why? Go on the offensive, in God’s love, grace, peace, and strength. Live a life that glorifies Him, love the lost, love the broken, love the unlovable. Be the light. Boldly go where God is leading you. Go to battle as God is calling you.
Use God to recover from your battle wounds, not to subsist cowering in the world.

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I Love The Father, Son and Holy Spirit and the blessings He has poured into my life. I pray that I live a life that glorifies Him in all I do, but I fail every day, many, many, many times. I have come here through brokenness, a trail of pain and broken promises that I've created through my self centeredness, self will and arrogance. For those I've hurt, please forgive me for what I did. Those things that I remember I am truly sorry I did them. I wish I could undo them. I can't. I use these lessons as motivation to be a builder, to take those experiences and hopefully keep someone else out of their own similar experiences. I love my wife, my children, my family, my friends, my strangers, and those the world would like to dismiss as an unfortunate error messing up worldly perfection. I get frustrated with all of the above too, for I am broken, not like God. Lord, give me your wisdom, your patience, and knowledge of your will for me and the strength to carry that out in all I do. I believe we have work to do while we are here and need to be actively engaged in allowing God to work through us. A Christian is someone who does what The Father, Son and Holy Spirit calls them to do, a builder not a taker, a conduit not a pinnacle, humble and serving. Micah 6:8 Matthew 25:31-46