Who Are You Telling Your Troubles To?

I wanted to share something that I read this morning. It comes from a golf-oriented daily devotional called Links Daily Devotional by Links Players International. The author, Jeff Hopper, and their website information are provided below. Now to the point...

Jeff discusses how critical we can become of the Psalms writers, and their seemingly obsessive way of moaning, complaining, and even asking for their enemies to be destroyed via their psalms.  He cites the fact that we could easily see the Psalms as self-centered, and self-serving. But, then, Jeff brilliantly reminds of a truth about all Spririt-inspired writing. Read on...

"The writers of Psalms laid open their minds and hearts before God. They knew that He already knew what this life was all about. And what it was and is all about without Him is temptation and injustice and weariness and decay. That's the truth about life. So they called spades spades and fools fools and evil evil. But most important of all is that they did this before God. They figured that while He already knew all this ugly stuff about the lives they were living, He was also the only way out. Who else were they supposed to talk to about their misery?

"Which leads us back to golf. When golf has you-know-whatted today, and I'm a danger to the children in my neighborhood because of the way I'm driving home, I don't really know whether God wants to hear it. It's golf, after all. But I do know this: He wants to hear about anything and everything that brings agony to my bones and anguish to my soul. He wants to hear it because in our saying it, we are calling on the only One who can actually do something about it. By this we do Him honor."

Now, friends, it may not be golf that is creating your angst, frustration, depression, or dejection today. It may be far more life-urgent and/or life-altering issues. But, how much MORE should you and I take those things to "the only One who can actually do something about it?"

May we all turn all the more TO Him, and not lean on our own understanding. Want to please God today? Take Him your burdens in a spirit of belief that He knows about them, cares about them, and can DO SOMETHING about them!
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Above quote authored by Jeff Hopper and Copyright 2011 Links Players International
February 24, 2011

The Links Daily Devotional appears Monday-Friday at www.linksplayers.com.