Get Off Of The Rocking Horse!

Psalms 43:5

Why am I discouraged?

Why is my heart so sad?

I will put my hope in God!

I will praise him again—

my Savior and my God!

A couple were heading off to a friend's place. The morning was pleasant, and they enjoyed themselves until they happened to remember a certain bridge which was very old and probably unsafe, “I shall never dare to go over that bridge”, said the wife “and we can’t get across the river any other way”!

“Oh” said the man, “I forgot that bridge, it is a bad place; suppose it should break through and we would fall into the river and be drowned!”

“Or” said the woman, adding to his complaints, supposes you should step on a rotten plank and break your leg; who would become of me and the baby?”

“I don’t know,” responded the husband, “what would become of any of us, for I couldn’t work, and we should all starve to death.”

There they stood not going forward not going back.

Until someone came along and told them that the bridge had been replaced with a new one.

Their doubts had been worse than useless.

The writer of today’s Psalm was depressed, he doubted whether God was going to help him. He laments for a few verses, then he remembers who he is dealing with: God, faithful and true.

We all have moments of doubt, especially when we are faced with seemingly insurmountable troubles.

The problem is that doubts are like riding a child’s rocking horse, they give you something to do, but they won’t get you anywhere.

When you have those moments, recite today’s verse to your heart. “I will put my hope in God…” once you recognize that God is working on your behalf, that he loves you with an undying love, your doubts will flee.

Get off of the rocking horse and remember who God is!

Today’s Readings: Deuteronomy 5,6; Psalm 43; Mark 14

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