Ever After

Find Rest, My Soul

Oct 9, 2006 Quiet Time

I was going my quiet time and reading Psalm 62, and I really felt God speaking to me again. The first verse just struck me:

“My soul finds rest in God alone; my salvation comes from him.”

It’s when you’re feeling most hopeless, most hurt, as if the world is just crumbling before your eyes, that you come before Him. You cry out His name, and this peace and warmth just washes over you because you know He is there. He is there beside you, comforting you, giving you hope. Like yesterday night, when I thought my relationship was doomed, I came before God and just cried out His name. I just spilled out everything, and even though my speech made no sense, I knew He understood all my hurt and pain. It just gives me so much peace to know that He is present when I’m most in need of someone, and in Him alone, my soul can find rest.
Verse 5 says:

“Find rest, O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from him.”

Also, I find verse 11 and 12 really encouraging and something I’ll definitely want to memorize:

“One thing God has spoken, two things have I heard: that you, O God, are strong, and that you, O Lord, are loving. Surely you will reward each person according to what he has done.”

Why my relationship ended up the way it is now, I’m definitely partly to blame. At first I kept asking why this was happening, but my mom continued to remind me that God is loving, and He knows what’s best for me. And I believe that when I begin to act more maturely, stop always thinking about myself and think more about others and learn to love them a little more and me a little less, than God will reward me for what I have done.