Encourage Yourself

I Samuel 30:5-6

And David's two wives were taken captives, A-hin-o-am the Jez-re-el-i-tess, and Ab'-igail the wife of Na'-bal the Car'-mel-ite.

And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God.


***Sometimes we are caught up in situations even though we are not at fault. We try again and again to explain to others that we did not cause the problem. It does not seem to matter what we say, to them, we are still to blame. When things go wrong as they sometimes will, humans has a tendency to lay the blame on someone instead of something. We should look at the nature of the situation,  sometimes, instead of who caused it.

All issues that comes into our life are not problems. It is when we focus more on the issue than on God, that the issue become a problem to us.  In our daily walk with God we are going to have issues that arises: on our job, in our home and in our churches. God let's us know that questions and concerns can be solved through His word of wisdom, as stated in Proverbs. In other books of the bible God reveals clearly how He worked out situations for His people, prophets and leaders etc.

When we walk by faith, more than sight, we have to encourage our self, and sometimes make ourselves happy as Paul did, in order, to go forward in life.  We must lay aside those issues, concerns and problems that so easily hold us back from the mission and journey God has for us to complete.


I urge you, as David would say, encourage your self in the Lord.


Until we meet again - soon.