"My world has been turned upside down!" That statement pack a lot of meaning. Something devastating and unexpected happened. Life doesn't make any sense. We are confused and frustrated. And I believe it is at this point we make decisions that will affect the entire course of our lives. This is a crucial point. I am afraid it is also a point at which we make mistakes and choose the wrong path, but it doesn't need to be this way. This is the message of Psalm 125. Let me recap from Sunday...
The last statement of David is what we are looking for when our world get turned upside down: "Peace be upon Israel." The Old Testament idea of "peace" (shalom) is not the absence of conflict, but a sense of well-being; it has the meaning of wholeness, or security. With this end result in mind let's see how we get there.
We are imperfect and our trust wavers like the stock market. We can be moved and we sometimes "turn aside." This is the point David makes at the beginning of verse 5.
Trust is key (v. 1). It is not the circumstance that should dictate our "peace", but in what we trust. If our trust is placed in something that is temporary (something we can lose) then our security will only last as long as that something, or somebody, is in place. Only God is eternal and only He can make us eternally secure. David shares the result of placing our trust in God...we "cannot be moved" (v. 1).
Read this psalm...live it and love it. May the Spirit of God teach us how we can be "fortressed" in God who cannot be moved! If He cannot be moved and our trust is in Him, then we cannot be moved.
Grace & Peace,
Scott
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