Stability in a Restless World
The preacher, King Solomon echoed life well when he observed that a man's duration upon earth is merely a chasing after the wind. He knew without doubt that the days of trouble are sure to come when a man can find no pleasure in them.
Despite wealth beyond imagination Solomon knew and so taught the hollowness of life. In the Psalms Asaph explained further.
Asaph was a musician, singer and Levite. He penned twelve Psalms. He too was familiar with life's hardships. Asaph analysed life and reasoned there was little sense to life until he approached the Lord's sanctuary.
It is in God's presence that all purpose is found - it is to see with God's eyes.
Asaph wrote in Psalm 73:
Whom have I in heaven but You? And earth has nothing I desire besides You. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. (vs 25-26)
But as for me, it is good to be near God. I have made the Sovereign Lord my refuge; I will tell of all Your deeds. (vs 28)
I have found my life when I see it in the Lord and with the Lord.
To shout from the mountaintops and to echo through the valleys with Asaph is true purpose, unending success when:
earth has nothing I desire besides You.
It is the apex of all living, the brightest of joys, the deepest emotion to be near the Lord.
'Christ is the still point of the turning world'. ~ T.S. Eliot
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'God's promises are to be our plea in prayer.' ~ Matthew Henry
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