Encouragement: I trust in your faithfulness.

Here is your daily encouragement words and thoughts. Today I bring you encouragement from Psalm 13:1-6

How long, Lord, will you continue to ignore me?
How long will you pay no attention to me?
2 How long must I worry,
and suffer in broad daylight?
How long will my enemy gloat over me?
3 Look at me! Answer me, O Lord my God!
Revive me, or else I will die!
4 Then my enemy will say, “I have defeated him!”
Then my foes will rejoice because I am upended.
5 But I trust in your faithfulness.
May I rejoice because of your deliverance!
6 I will sing praises to the Lord
when he vindicates me.

Biblical Studies Press. (2006; 2006). The NET Bible First Edition; Bible. English. NET Bible.; The NET Bible (Ps 13:1-6). Biblical Studies Press.

"I trust in your faithfulness." What a way to view my Lord and savior.

How often I have felt like I was worrying and suffering in broad daylight for all to see. How often have I felt that God was ignoring and not paying attention to me. The psalmist places his complaints on the table and after confessing his feeling to God, he has the faith and the strength to look beyond his troubles and proclaim "I trust in your faithfulness".

Troubled times are never easy. The thing that you have to remember is the message from Psalm 84. You go through valleys, the emphasis is on going through the valley and not camping out in the valley and proclaiming all your problems continually. And when you go through God strengthens you with his strength.

What always surprises me is when you look back over a troubled time once you are through your troubled time, you can see God's hand all over the picture and see that in spite of your groaning God used you for his good purpose and brought you into a closer more trusting relationship with himself. He brings you to a state where you can rejoice and sing praises to the Lord and to confess to God that "I trust in your faithfulness."

Amen

Music Encouragement What a faithful God I Have.