Psalm 107 is a long read. (But for an alternate perspective, consider this: I have sat much longer to read other stuff.)

These next two verses touched my soul this morning. (If you read the chapter you will notice God repeats them three more times.)

“Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses” (6).

I thank God for His attention to me in my trouble and deliverance for me out of my trouble.

Yet, as I have written so many times already, I still forget far too often to cry out to Him.

“Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!” (8).

Part of the Lord’s goodness is what verse six is talking about. So I praise Him for deliverance.

But whether or not I need deliverance, how about I praise Him anyway?

For His goodness.

And for His wonderful works.

When I’m in trouble, I eventually remember to cry out to Him for help.

How “odd” it would be to cry out His praises when I’m not in trouble. 🙂

from Psalm 107:29

A little bit more from Psalm 107: His Word; My Healing

I want to be content and satisfied with that which God does for me and gives to me and allows me to experience.

Yet I want more.

And some things I really do not want, and yet I have times in which I desire them strongly anyway.

Maybe that’s why these verses spoke to me:

“They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel: But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert” (Psalm 106:13,14).

Deliver me from desire for those things and experiences which God has withheld from me!

Let me remember what He has done.

Let me remember what He has promised to do.

And let me wait patiently for Him to do now whatever it is He wishes to do.

Turn my heart to Him, that I may desire Him, that I may bless Him.