Psalm 68:19 “Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears us up; God is our salvation. Selah”
Our attitudes towards our challenges make our future. The way we observe and react will bring our hearts to our actions. We all know that without His provision nothing is possible and our submission to His will, will bring peace to our life and honor to His Holy name. As mother and father on earth always think the best for their kids, so does the Heavenly Father who created us and allowed us to be part of the livings. Bless the Lord with great joy and keep satan away from you, forcing you to rebel against His will for you. We do not, however, need to know on our worst days how God will sustain us for a lifetime. We do not need to know even how he will sustain us tomorrow. We need to know, even with a mustard seed of faith, that he will get us through today. Our salvation does not rest merely somewhere in the past, at that first moment of repentance and faith. God did save us then. But as long as we are in this world, we need daily saving. “Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears us up.” If the exodus and conquest wrote God’s care for his people in big letters, then the cross of Jesus writes it in letters bigger (Romans 8:32). If Christ has carried our sin to the grave, will he not also carry us through today? If God has raised Jesus from the dead, will he not also raise our heads above today’s high waters? Our sorrows can sometimes make today feel unbearable. And that is the point of this promise: when we meet the unbearable, God himself will bear us. Even to old age, even to gray hairs, even when our legs can no longer bear our bodies.
As with the new mercies Jeremiah proclaimed, our inner renewal is largely hidden from us at the moment. From the outside, we may feel like Paul, “afflicted in every way, perplexed, persecuted, struck down” (2 Corinthians 4:8–9). We are left looking like a city under siege. But even as our bodies and minds are battered, God is at work on the inside, building something that will last forever. “This light momentary affliction,” which wreaks such havoc on our outer self, does something quite different to our inner self. As we keep our eyes on things unseen (2 Corinthians 4:18), our afflictions become the furnace where God renews us and prepares “for us an eternal weight of glory” (2 Corinthians 4:17).
How shall we respond to such unflagging love, such daily mercy? We can take our stand with the psalmist, and say, “It is good to declare your steadfast love in the morning, and your faithfulness by night” (Psalm 92:1–2). Every morning, look ahead and remember: God will show me steadfast love today. And every evening, look back and declare his faithfulness. If you are in Christ, God will bear you up today. He will show you mercy. He will make you new. And when tomorrow comes, he will do it all again. So let’s not be weary and anxious about anything and humbly submit all to Him and let Him lead us to victory today and tomorrow.
Promise: “The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.”
Prayer: Dear Lord Heavenly Father mighty wonderful God. Lord, thank you for being with me in past, now, and in my future. Thank you for bearing my worries each and everyday, I am nothing without You. Lead me to continue worshiping You joyfully and with a loud voice so the whole world can see Your work in me. In Jesus’s Holy Name, I pray Amen.
Have a blessed day!