My devotional for this morning.

This was my devotional for this morning, I thought I would share it with you guys!

Find rest, O my soul, in God alone
My hope comes from him
He alone is my rock and my salvation
He is my fortress, I will not be shaken

Three things strike me from this passage:

1. Surrender only to God. It's clear why only is used twice in two verses: the human heart is a divided, desperate thing. We must to rely on something. Physically, our hearts stand alone and pumps for a lifetime, supporting everything else. Spiritually, every heart has a crutch, a help, a support that hold us up in this difficult and terrible world. We need help, and we'll look anywhere for it. We look to our friends, to power and control, to indulgent comforts, cocooning escapes, and spectacular diversions.  None of these can keep us standing strong without being shaken.

2. Everything is at Stake! We are talking about the condition of our very souls, not something trivial or momentary. The core of our being will last through this lifetime and into the next. The deepest part of who we are, the most important part about us, is not something to be handled lightly. We should not trust our peace to the promises of the world. When we do, we will be shaken, insecure, and wanting.

3. Rest and Hope in God. It is God who is our rock, salvation, and fortress. This is his promise. It is our responsibility to rest in him, to hope in him. Work is necessary--school work or raising a family work or occupation work--and this leads us to assume that rest is arbitrary. That it doesn't matter what we are doing as long as it's not work. The Enemy loves this myth, because when we rest in the wrong things we have no rest. We are always hoping, some part of us  is looking forward to the future for with positive expectation. We often look forward to things that do little to fuel our present. (this is what hope ought to do, a future look that fuels our present). We look forward to a time when we're not working or getting a boy friend or eating a meal or going on a vacation or seeing a moving or achieving something big. OF COURSE these aren't bad, but when they become our biggest joys, these worldly hopes disappoint.  We are let down hard, the crash echoes in our hollow hearts. Instead, we hope in the promises of God, for they move us forward into the future destiny he as designed for us.