All my life I have turned to the Psalms for comfort and advice, when I pray I will seek them for guidance hoping to hear God's voice in the words. Usually I can find Him there, but the direction He takes me is not always where I thought things would go.
Today, I am writing this post on the later part of Friday; I think God had me wait because the day needed to play out for me to see and hear what he needed me to understand.
In this reading I see that Psalm 34 is "Testimony to the goodness of God, who delivers the afflicted from their fears. That the Psalmist reports on God's hearing the prayer and invites others to know the goodness of the Lord through worship and trust." (Harper Collins Study Bible 1993)
So I read in verse 15: "The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their cry." and verse 17: "When the righteous cry for help, the lord hears, and rescues them from all their troubles."
I received an e-mail at work today from Laura who is now staying most nights with her parents in Brockton, Ma. Her parents need her more now to get through a normal day and Laura must carefully balance her time between their needs and her work. We were hopeful that with her Dad's return to the house, physical therapy, visiting nurses and meals on wheels that she could once a week return home here in Fitchburg for some rest. But I also know that God is wiser than us; he made sure Laura was in Brockton last night to help her Dad. Her Mom had gotten up in the middle of the night and fell trying to get back into bed. She could not get herself up and Laura's Dad panicked, called to Laura for help, who rushed in, lifted her mother up and placed her back in bed. Laura's Mom is OK, a doctors visit today confirmed she had no more than a scare and a bump on the head for her troubles, Praise God.
From todays reading I am also convinced that God's eyes are on Laura and her parents, righteous and faithful servants all of their lives, and that God made sure Laura was there last night to act on His behalf when her Dad called out. God sees us, hears us, takes action and rescues us from our troubles, we just sometimes need to recognise that it is God that places others near and around us. He surrounds us with his love that is manifest in the actions of those he calls.
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