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My soul, wait

November 18, 2008 at 11:23 am Leave a comment

This has been a hard week for me. This morning as I was reading in the Psalms I came across an old favorite of mine: Psalm 62.

My soul waits in silence for God only; From Him is my salvation. He only in my rock and my salvation, My stronghold; I shall not be greatly shaken.

How long will you assail a man, That you may murder him, all of you, Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence? They have counseled only to thrust him down from his high position; They delight in falsehood; They bless with their mouth, but inwardly they curse.

My soul, wait in silence for God only, For my hope is from Him. He only is my rock and my salvation, My stronghold; I shall not be shaken. On God my salvation and my glory rest; The rock of my strength, my refuge is in God. Trust in Him at all times, O people; Pour out your heart before Him; God is a refuge for us.

The first couple of verses are really easy to say…”My soul waits in silence for God only…” In the course of my day to day life, when things are running smoothly, when life is easy, I can say with confidence that my soul waits for God.

But if you keep reading through this Psalm to verse 5, David writes, “My soul, wait in silence for God only.” He wrote about the difficulties he was facing in verses 3-4, then he repeated his statement from verse 1 with one significant difference: He had to remind himself…to tell himself (his soul)…to wait for God.

It’s in the middle of a hard week that I find it more difficult to say with confidence, “my soul waits” and I have say to myself, “my soul, wait in silence for God only.”

Entry filed under: Devotional Thought. Tags: Devotion, Psalm 62.