God Is Working Overtime On Me

Psalm 93, Psalm 145

A Psalm of David of Praise.

O my God and King, I will extol thee, and will bless thy Name for ever and ever.

Psalms 145:1 GNV

The Lord reigneth, and is clothed with majesty: the Lord is clothed, and girded with power: the world also shall be established, that it cannot be moved. Thy throne is established of old: thou art from everlasting.

Psalms 93:1-2 GNV

There's the planned next Psalm and the random (you didn't just use that word did you?) reading from a separate Bible reading plan. Using "random" in the place of "coincidence" when speaking of how God works fits right in to what Solomon said,

The heart of man purposeth his way: but the Lord doeth direct his steppes.

Proverbs 16:9 GNV

And as David said in another Psalm:

The paths of man are directed by the Lord: for he loveth his way.

Psalms 37:23 GNV‬‬

And whether it is from Isaiah 29 or Jeremiah 18 we are very familiar with what and how a potter "throws" clay, potter's clay, push, pulled , shaped and molded. All are processes whereby our lives are grown step by step, day by day.

The last post I was telling that beginning with "the Lord reigns" is sometimes difficult to honestly proclaim. But it is an acknowledgement of who God is, and what He does. We may say that Psalm 93 is just one of the psalms of praise David wrote so there's no reason to not praise the Lord in all His is reigning as king. However, Psalm 145 David headlines that Psalm to be specifically one of praise. And he begins very directly establishing his relationship directly to God:

My God, My King.

Having lived in times of great earthquakes that created devastating tsunamis, first December 26, 2004 when so many islands and main land were devastated by the floods tsunamis brought from an earthquake off Sumatra. And then again on March 11, 2011 off the coast of Japan again the videos of devastation there, and also nearly half way around the world on the other side of the Pacific Ocean damage to property by tsunamis in the marinas of both Hawai'i and California tell us of the power of natural forces at play in the world. In Psalm 93 it is stated that the power of God so much greater than all of the floods. Yes, the Lord indeed reigns. But David makes it very personal in his praise in Psalm 145. "I will extol and bless Thy name forever and ever." This very definitely steps up from saying of God:

Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine House, O Lord, for ever.

Psalms 93:5 GNV

In Psalm 145 David's praise begins very personal and continues throughout as extremely personal.

A phrase I have heard often enough by believers throughout my life is "God must be working overtime on me." I've already admitted that there are times when the words don't roll off my tongue in sincerity just ever stating that "the Lord reigns". In my reading of a Psalm and a Proverb today's Psalm 145 isn't that random to God. It is not just a coincidence. God wants in me a heart that much more often says:

Great is the Lord, and most worthy to be praised, and his greatness is incomprehensible.

Psalms 145:3 GNV

How He longs for me to say of Him:

The Lord is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works. The Lord is near unto all that call upon him: yea, to all that call upon him in truth. He will fulfill the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them. The Lord preserveth all them that love him: but he will destroy all the wicked.

Psalms 145:17 - 20 GNV

However, I must admit there was a time in my life when it seems like I would have much more readily said that, and loudlt proclaimed that. But that was when I had not yet endured life threatening illness and years of more disease and heart breaking, heart rending decisions that changed my life forever hundreds of miles from where I call home. In fact one time over a period of more than ten years I dropped back to start from the bottom up as to why I even believed there was a god and which God among all the other gods was the one that I should believe to be my God. It was a time when I became very aware of what I should and why I should even believe anything was real. That caution still is present in me today as I try to form new relationships and even understand how I relate to my own children. See, I don't just feel when reading two different Psalms as I did today that work on my outward voicing of what I internally am growing to believe as being a coincidence, and I don't just see that as God working overtime on me. But sometimes it does make me stop and wonder, why isn't He working on me triple time?