About Fruit of Change

This blog is borne out of desiring to share with others. I have given scripture booklets to friends, family, and whoever wants them. We are reading the booklets together for at least 30 days. I share in the blog what God gives me about the seeds we are planting. I believe that as we sow the Word and pray together, we are going to see transformation in our lives. The Word sown in our hearts will yield the fruit of change.

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Who He Is; Who I Am -- Psalm 43:3-5 & Psalm 71:23


3Send out Your light and Your truth; let them guide me. Let them lead me to Your holy mountain, to the place where You live. 4 There I will go to the altar of God, to God--the source of all my joy. I will praise You with my harp, O God, my God! 5 Why am I discouraged? Why so sad? I will put my hope in God! I will praise him again—my Savior and my God! Psalm 43:3-5 NIV

So who is He? I can agree with the psalmist; God is the source of all my joy. People and stuff may make me happy for a minute, but no one else can give me joy. I'm thankful that His Word—His light and His truth—lead me to Him. When I lose my way or I am forgetful i.e., when my priorities are off, His light and truth bring me back to reality.

I like how David the psalmist asks himself questions: "Why am I discouraged? Why so sad?" I can relate to David. I ask myself questions and give myself good advice. David wrote this psalm apparently during a time of war. Verse 2 says: Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy? I can imagine him asking himself, "Why am I tripping because of the haters around me?" Then he prays, "Send out Your light and Your truth."  He says I will go to God the source of my joy. In verse 5 he reminds himself that it won't always be like that. He's going to hope in God and praise God.

Sometimes you have to talk to yourself. Sometimes you have to remind yourself where joy comes from. It cannot depend on the situation. I can't depend on people for joy. What happens when they have bad days? But I know something that will not change: God is the source of my joy. He is my Savior and My God.

Who I am

My lips will shout for joy when I sing praise to You-I, whom You have redeemed. Psalm 71:23 NIV

I can sing and shout because I am confident in who He is and in who I am. Who am I? I, like David am the one that God redeemed. I'm the one that He brought out of darkness, fear, shame, depression, sin, guilt . . . I could go on. That's a reason to sing praise and shout for joy! HALLELUJAH!
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