Psalm 27:13 I would have lost heart unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
Can I encourage you, along with myself, to not lose heart about what you are waiting and believing God for, whatever that is. It's so easy to be discouraged when things don't happen on our time table or how we wanted, we're tempted to think 'why bother'. But we've not to listen to that, but keep believing!
The Psalmist David says he would have lost heart unless he believed something and that something was believing to see the goodness of God in the land of the living, in other words right now in the here and now. I love that, and no doubt we all want to see the goodness of God manifesting more and more in our lives in amongst all the sad reports and discouraging things that sometimes happen.
I think Jesus put His finger on it when He told Peter that he was seeing things only from a human perspective.
Mark 8:33 Jesus turned around and looked at his disciples, then reprimanded Peter. "Get away from me, Satan", he said. "You are seeing things merely from a human point of view, not from God's." (Nlt)
So when negative and depressing thoughts creep up and plague us we need to do like Jesus and say "Get away from me Satan!" because they are coming from Satan, not God. They are not what God sees, they are not His perspective. God wants us to keep believing for the good!
The Psalmist goes on in Psalm 27:14 Wait (in faith) on the Lord; be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart, Wait, I say, on the Lord. (Nkjv)
So while we are waiting in faith for the Lord to show us what He is doing behind the scenes that we can't see yet with our physical eyes, we can know He is strengthening our hearts to keep believing. Isn't that lovely? I hope it encourages and blesses you too.
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