“I waited patiently for the LORD and He inclined to me and heard my cry. He also brought me out of the horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a Rock and established my steps.” Psalm 40:1-2

Pushing Through

I’m usually a positive person, looking at the good and not being “down” easily. But lately, I’m not sure why, I’ve been heavy-hearted. I have a choice to stay and take on the “woe is me” attitude or rise above and push through. It’s many things and decisions piled up that feel heavy on me. Growing older with its physical aches and pains doesn’t help either.

So here I am in my quiet time pouring out my heart to my God who listens and, as the above verse says, has inclined His ear to me. I trust Him more than ever with my concerns. I need to press into the LORD and listen to His voice through His Word. Like King David, I can cry out, “Do not forsake me, O LORD, O my God, be not far from me! Make haste to help me, O LORD, my salvation!” (Psalm 38:21-22). I can trust my LORD to meet me right here with wisdom and strength to press through the day. “In the day when I cried out, You answered me, and made me bold with strength in my soul” (Psalm 138:3).

The Lord Jesus is my help and my desire. I’m beginning to see miracles around me and glimpses of long-time prayers being answered. I rejoice at His works! Yet I know I need to seek Him more than ever because the answer to these prayers is not the “end all, be all” place… it’s my Lord who my eyes are on. It’s my Lord who truly is my heart’s desire. All the other rubbish (desires) can fall away, and as “The weight of sin so easily entangles me, (I’m) running with endurance the race that is set before (me), looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of (my) faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God” (Hebrews 12:1b-2).

These are the truths that thrill my heart these days. I can “set my eyes on things above, not of this earth—and seek those things above where Christ is seated at the right hand of God” (Colossians 3:1-2).These things enable me to push through and run my daily race with endurance, focused on His values, looking unto my Lord and Savior’s smile.

“O Lord, You suffered in love to a brutal death for me and us. Certainly we can suffer through our day’s inconveniences, pressing through to see Your beautiful face, knowing Your glory is our goal. You set us on the Rock and establish our steps. Thank you!”