My heart trusts in Him, and I am helped
Psalm 28:1 I call upon you, O LORD! My rock, do not be silent to me! If you keep silent to me, I will be like a dying man.
28:2 Hear my voice of supplication, when I cry to you, and lift up my hands to your most holy place!
When the poet opened his mouth to pray to God, he was as tired and weak as any of us ordinary Christians, unable to feel the presence of God. But the psalmist still strives to seek God's mercy and earnestly calls out to God to hear his cry. When we get up in the morning and kneel before God, we will also experience powerlessness and tasteless prayers, but we have to plead and call on God like the psalmist. Let our lives experience God more deeply and long for the sweetness of fellowship with God in prayer. When the psalmist called out to God so urgently, God answered the psalmist's prayer:
Psalm 28:6 Blessed be the LORD, for he has heard my voice of supplication.
28:7 The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I get help. Therefore my heart rejoices, and I will praise him with songs.
God truly listened to the psalmist’s pleading voice, and God truly hears our voices every time we pray. So God allows us to experience Him as our strength and shield in prayer. Therefore, in daily prayer, we ask God to lick our hearts with strength so that we can rely more deeply on Him. The psalmist said that when my heart relies on God, I will be helped. On the one hand, getting answers to prayers fills us with joy, and on the other hand, it helps us have more confidence in God.
Not only do we learn to let our hearts rely on God in prayer, but all experiences of frustration can help us rely more deeply on God and return to God:
Book of Amos:
4:6 “I have made your teeth clean in all your cities, and there is a shortage of food in every place among you, and yet you have not returned to me,” declares the LORD.
4:7 “Three months before the harvest, I stopped the rain from falling on you; I sent rain on this city, but not on that city; I sent rain on this field, but on that field There is no rain, and those who have no rain wither.
4:8 So two or three cities gather together to find water, but they have not enough to drink; yet you will not return to me, says the LORD. of.
4:9 “I struck you with drought and mildew, and many of the vegetables in your gardens, your vines, your fig trees, and your olive trees were eaten by cutworms; yet you did not return to me.” This is. says the LORD.
4:10 “I sent a plague among you, as I did in Egypt; I slew your young men with the sword, and led your horses into captivity, and the stench of the carcasses in the camp filled your nostrils; but you did not return Me." This is what the Lord says.
4:11 “I will overthrow the cities that are among you, just as I overturned Sodom and Gomorrah, and I will make you like a stick drawn out of the fire; but you will not return to me. ."this is what Jehovah said.
4:12 “This is what I will do to you, O Israel; since I have done this to you, O Israel, prepare yourself to meet your God.
? God sometimes lets you know The failures and setbacks we experience everywhere in life actually let our hearts see that if we disobey God and don’t rely on Him, we will experience great suffering. Suffering itself is not the purpose. The purpose of suffering is to make you return to Jehovah and to make your heart. Depend on him.