“Be gracious to me, God, be gracious to me,

For I take refuge in You.

I will seek refuge in the shadow of Your wings

Until danger passes.

I call to God Most High,

to God who fulfills His purpose for me.”

– Psalm 57:1-2

 

Sometimes it is easy to feel like there will be no end to circumstances and it begins to wear on you.  Maybe not so much physically, but mentally, emotionally and even spiritually. Like at the present with the continuation of the uncertainty of so much surrounding the corona virus.  The social distancing and change of routine that persist and continues without any sight of when things might return to a sense of normal makes one weary.  In times like this when despair or despondency is knocking on your mental, emotional, and spiritual door is the time to lean the most on our Heavenly Father to see us through.

It seems to me that when this all began and there was more initial anxiety and fear, we knew that we had to trust God for safety, protection, wisdom, and peace.  But guess what?  We still must trust God with all our being, but now we must trust God for encouragement!  Now more than ever, we must trust God “until danger passes.”  We trust God for encouragement to stand fast in our thought life, our emotional stability, and spiritually fully depending on God’s love and grace.  We simply follow Paul’s instruction in Phil. 4:8, “Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable – if there is any moral excellence and if there is anything praiseworthy – dwell on these things!”  There you have it!  Read the Psalms, like Psalm 57, turn on Christian music and sing along, loudly, write a few encouraging notes to friends, or family members, count your blessings, most importantly keep trusting God.  He’ll meet your need so that you can confidently finish out Psalm 57, go ahead read it out loud right now with exuberance!

 

“My heart is confident, God my heart is confident.

I will sing; I will sing praises.

Wake up my soul! Wake up heart and lyre!

I will wake up the dawn.

I will praise You, Lord, among the peoples;

I will sing praises to You among the nations.

For Your faithful love is as high as the heavens;

Your faithfulness reaches the clouds.

God, be exalted above the heavens;

let Your glory be over the whole earth.”

– Psalm 57:7-11