Day 17 - 150 Day Challenge

[cleanaturalady]

 Psalm 17

This Psalm is a tough one for me to digest because on the surface it seems to say that as long as we live in line with God, then everything will be smooth sailing.  That all sounds well and good - kind of makes me want to stand up and fly right, that way nothing bad will ever happen in my life.  Problem is, bad things happen to Godly people all the time, so how do we square that up?

It has always been a puzzlement to me because I have received many blessings in my life that I feel are a direct result of my faith.  There have been other things that have happened in my favor that, although less directly tied to my faith, I feel still feel happened because I was faithful.  These things that occurred, be they big or small were things that I didn't deserve any more than the next person in the pew beside me on Sunday morning.

Then at other times when I think that I have been abundantly faithful to God's call and things don't seem to be going so well, or the plan that I tried failed.  Why is it that things never seem fair?  Could it be that our 'righteousness' is not as inextricably bound to our blessing as we think?

I believe that we have trials and blessings in our lives simply because that is the way life is.  Were it not for trails, our blessings would feel flat.  Were it not for blessings, in times of trial we might lose hope.  Either way, God is there with us to help us through the trying period, or to rejoice with us in our victories.

In my search for inspiration for this post today, I came across this song Over My Head by Brian Littrell.  The song sums up the way I feel about the ups and downs of live better than I can.  I know that problems will come up in my life, just as I know that I will be blessed beyond my wildest dreams at other times.  I know I am in over my head in life, but I find it such a comfort to know that my soul has found its place of rest in God.

© KDV 2009

[Kajenloca]

Jul. 2, 2009 at 8:11 AM

Beautiful song!