Psalm 143:8 New International Version (NIV)
for I have put my trust in you.
Show me the way I should go,
for to you I entrust my life.
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I thought since there are a lot of churches that are closed today that I would have time to do a little devo myself. It is neat because my church put this verse on their Facebook page and when I saw it I thought, "Hmmm, a lot can be said about this verse". I am going to tell you what it means to me. It has been awhile since I have had time to write a devo in my blog and I miss that. Hopefully, this will be read by a lot of people and they will like it enough to share it.
I love to think of the first sentence in this way. It says, "Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love". That could be taken two ways.
First, it could be talking about a person getting up and doing their Bible study in the morning before the day gets started and you just feel His Love surround you from His Word.
Second, if you are outdoor lover like me, it could be that the sunrise reminds you of God's unfailing Love for you. That sunrise reminds you of all the good things that He has done for you because how can anyone but God paint a sunrise that beautiful. He loves you enough to make each sunrise different then the last one so you would have something new to wake up to every morning.
With those two things being said, we go onto the next line where it says, "for I have put my trust in You". That means that we trust God in whatever we are going to be doing that day whether it is something we got from His Word that will remind us or just the beautiful of the sunrise. We can trust that He knows our needs and wants and that He will provide for us each and every day for He knows what is ahead of us.
And because of that trust we put in Him, He will show us the way in which we need to go. We can entrust on life in and to Him. That is really what trusting Him is all about. Trusting that He will guide our life to the best that it can be for Him and His Glory because isn't that what it is all about in the first place. God gave us our life so no matter what we are going through, we know that it can be used for the ministry of God.
As I am writing this, I am thinking about how I would paint the verse out on a canvas. It would look something like this: It would have a sunrise up top. then a country looking road going away from or towards the sunrise, don't have that part figured out yet. Then there would be green as the grass all around the road and a person sitting on the grass reading a book (aka the Bible). I might even paint an angel in the sunrise somewhere as a sign of God's Love is there or I could put a heart of some sort. I could even put a road that is split in two and have signs on each one. Signs that say, "God's Way" and "The Other Way".
It is a thought in process for sure. Maybe that picture helps some people see what the verse is about too in an artistic way. I know some people are visual learners so that is why I wrote my painting idea out. Anyways, I hope that you got something from this little devo of mine on this cold, little (when I say little, I mean very little) snowy Sunday. :)