Psalm 116: 5-9 Analysis

This week I spent 20 minutes in prayer and devotion. This week has been much better. Better than my other weeks that’s for sure. I decided I was going to pick a verse and make that verse my specific verse to focus on for the week. So for this week the verse I wanted to focus on was psalm 116:5-9, “The Lord is gracious and righteous; our God is full of compassion. The Lord protects the unwary; when I was brought low, he saved me. Return to your rest, my soul, for the Lord has been good to you. For you, Lord, have delivered me from death my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before the Lord in the land of the living.” For me this verse has always played a big art in my life. Ironically this was the verse that God had put
on my heart to pray about this week. I got different things out not this verse while reading it. I focused on part of the verse watch day. For the first day I focused on the part that says, “ The Lord is gracious and righteous; our God is full of compassion.” For some odd reason this really stood out to me. I mean I’ve read this verse multiple times. But this time it really stood out to me that our God really is full of compassion. He sees his children when we are hurting or when we are in need. We are his children and he knows just what we need just when we need it.
I pray that God would break my heart for what breaks his. The second day I focused on the part that says, “The Lord protects the unwary; when I was brought low, he saved me.” This just the earlier verse got me. In the middle of the semester I am feeling the pressure. I have been and felt so low lately. As stated in a n earlier week I felt so alone. I was confused as to what I should be doing. I felt that when I came got college y life was going to be perfect. After all I had my major all picked out and my job right out of college all picked out I thought It was going to be okay. However, when I got here that wasn’t that case. I wasn’t sure anymore what I was going to do with my life. Then after reading this verse I was reminded that jus because I don’t know what God is doing doesn’t mean he isn’t working. He protects me. Finally I focused on the part that says, “Return to your rest, my soul, for the Lord has been good to you. For you, Lord, have delivered me from death my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before the Lord in the land of the living.” It is such a simple statement yet so meaningful. God walks before me and guides my every
step. He knows all things. All the struggled that I will go through he knows it all. I serve an almighty God whose power cannot be compared to any other.