February 19, 2010

Our Daily Bread
February 18, 2010

Tell It All







READ: Psalm 62



Trust in Him at all
times, you people; pour out your heart before Him; God is a refuge for
us. —Psalm 62:8


A clerk who helped me purchase a small digital voice recorder
told me that he kept one just like it in his car when he worked in
California. “When I began driving home after work I switched it on,” he
said, “and I talked about everything that happened that day on the job,
good and bad. When I pulled into my driveway, I hit the erase button.”
Then he smiled. After telling everything to his voice recorder, he
apparently had no need to go over the day’s problems with his wife or
family.
It reminded me of how often I needlessly rehearse my
disappointments and problems to others instead of telling them to God.
The psalmist wrote: “Trust in Him at all times, you people; pour out
your heart before Him; God is a refuge for us” (Ps. 62:. Twice he
spoke of waiting silently for God, his rock and salvation (vv.1-2,5-7).
While
there is great comfort in sharing our difficulties with a friend, we
miss the greatest help if we fail to bring them to the Lord. Joseph
Scriven said it so well:
What a Friend we have in Jesus,
All our sins and griefs to bear!
What a privilege to carry
Everything to God in prayer!
O what peace we often forfeit,
O what needless pain we bear,
All because we do not carry
Everything to God in prayer! — David C. McCasland



No matter where we are, Jesus is only a
prayer away.