Have to answer this one, as I was just emailing a wonderful friend (who I happened to meet on a writer's forum!) about a verse's relevance to me today. (It would be too hard to pick a favorite, so I'll just go with the most recent one that has spoken to me.) The verse also happens to be one which prompted an article from me that was published last year. Which just goes to show that His words are fresh with every reading, as it was something I really needed to hear again this morning.
It's the verse in Psalm 57:2--"I cry out to God Most High, to God who fulfills His purpose for me." The past couple of months have been very 'dry' ones for me in the writing dept. (note "Muse wanted" above my avatar). I've found myself fretting over not 'doing' anything of significance as a result. I've prayed, and waited, and waited some more. Nothing. Then this morning I read that, and it hit home.
I don't do anything of significance, anyway--it's God who does whatever He wants to accomplish through me, to the extent that I am yielded and listening to Him. Instead of fretting over my lack of
doing, I should be more concerned with my
being...am I yielded, am I listening? (Funny how I don't fret about that.) And do I believe God is at work regardless of what I can see? At the time David wrote this Psalm, he was the newly anointed future king of Israel--and hiding in a cave because King Saul was closing in on him to kill him. And yet he could say (because his God was 'Most High') that this God was
fulfilling His purpose for him. He could also say, vv. 7-10, "My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast; I will sing and make music...for great is Your love, reaching to the heavens; Your faithfulness reaches to the skies." My heart can be steadfast because of who He is--He is faithful, regardless of what I see happening in my life.
Anyway, that's my verse offering...and now I'm off to write a devotional on it
. (Neat thread!)
