WHAT ARE WE SEEING?

Psalm 27:13 NKJV I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.

Well, how are you today? Our emotions can be very up and down, can’t they? You might be feeling uplifted or downhearted, because what we’re thinking and believing and ‘seeing’ in our imaginations will produce our feelings.😊

We’re all hearing and seeing things throughout our day and we either choose to believe they can’t change, or we go to God and ask Him what He says about it in His word. When all we can see is the trouble, then God is calling us to spend time with His promises, believing them and focusing on them - to start ‘seeing’ them as though they’d already taken place.

Now the psalmist chose to believe that he would see the goodness of God right there in the world around him. If he’d looked at his circumstances and believed that what he was seeing with his physical eyes couldn’t be changed, he says he would have despaired and lost heart. 

I wonder what you and I are ‘seeing’? Are we seeing the news and our troubles, and despairing and becoming depressed? Or are we believing God’s promise that surely goodness and mercy will follow us all the days of our lives, that nothing is impossible with Him? Believing one thing produces one result, believing the other thing produces a totally different result. We get to choose.😊

The psalmist had to believe first before he saw what he wanted come to pass, and it’s the same for us. We are people of faith, who walk by faith and not by ‘sight’! 

So how are we doing today? Are we just looking at the mess, the sickness, the lack, throwing up our hands and losing heart, or are we believing for God’s goodness and mercy to chase us down and overtake us? (Psalm 23:6)

May I encourage us all to rise up in faith and say, “Enough is enough. I’m going to believe I will see the goodness of God in the land of the living, despite what I see with my physical eyes. My God loves me, He’s bigger than any problem and He’s turning it round for my good. In Jesus name. Amen.”

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