You are designed with a plan - Just for you

Psalm 119: 49-56

Your design is Unique - for a time like this

“Remember your word to your servant, in which you have made me hope.  This is my comfort in my affliction, that your promise gives me life.  The insolent utterly deride me, but I do not turn away from your law.  When I think of your rules from of old, I take comfort, O Lord.  Hot indignation seizes me because of the wicked, who forsake your law. Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my sojourning.  I remember your name in the night, O Lord, and keep your law.  This blessing has fallen to me, that I have kept your precepts.”

God understands everything about you, in that He designed you and gave you your abilities, and talents to get your needs met on planet earth.   He also gave us access to His play book on how to win on planet earth, we refer to it as the Holy Bible.  It was God’s Statutes and precepts the Psalmist is referring to as his hope.  The Psalmist tells us he is under constant ridicule by the arrogant who put no hope in God’s laws and commandments.

The Psalmist even in his time of affliction does not dwell on the present but abides in God’s instruction.  He looks back to what God has done long ago for he is dwelling in and on the statutes and precepts found in Scripture.  That does not mean he does not get angry at the wicked who reject God’s instruction.  Now the good news is that you have been given a gift the Psalmist longed for and that is the indwelling of the Holy Spirit if by faith you have entered into Christ.  Have you taken the test found in 2 Corinthians 13:6?

Speaking for myself about this life in 2020 I find these tools being used by the enemy of my soul, fear and anger on every front.  I am in a quandary about, do I go by how I feel or in whom I have put my trust, most of the time I go with the promises of my great God.  Folks, every where one looks fear is being sold, it comes from the guys selling gold, to the guys trying to sell annuities.  The sales pitch is always fear of loss, being without toilet paper, but stop, give thought to whom it was that has promised to never leave you or forsake you.  Even more who gave you the wealth you now enjoy, it was not the Company or the current or past administration, it was the designer of your mind and personality, the One who made you different than all the other people of the earth. 

I bought a new car and the finance guy at the closing began to share why I needed to spend more on extended maintenance.  It was only when I ask this question, “have I made a bad decision buying this car, the more you talk the more I believe I have.”  He dropped the subject very quickly and we closed the sale at the price I had agreed on.   Fear and anger will steal your joy, they are from the enemy of your soul.  My prayer for you and me is this: “I remember your name in the night, O Lord, and keep your law.  This blessing has fallen to me, that I have kept your precepts.”

From the Back Porch,

Bob Rice