Love Him and Call Upon Him

I love you, O LORD, my strength. The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies. (Psalm 18:1-3)

I am beginning this blog today because this Psalm is the theme of my life. I love the Lord, and he is the refuge of my life. He is my rock, the one upon whom I can trust when all else in the world is failing. He is my God and my deliverer--one who delivers me not only from trouble in the temporary sense, but trouble in the eternal sense. He is my shield whom I can trust even if the mountains give way and are thrown in the depths of the sea and even if I am killed in the process (Luke 12:4-7). This same God that David trusted in and rested upon is my God--I worship Him as my treasure and Jesus Christ His only Son as my only hope for salvation (Romans 3:21-31).

That is all fine and good, you are thinking. So why write these things to others? Why put it on a page and on a site where hundreds of thousands of people are blogging everyday? Well, I do it because I want these things that are mentioned in Psalm 18 and throughout the Scriptures to be found a resting place, a haven for the weary, for the two or three or three hundred people who find it appealing to read it. I want these truths to be looked at and meditated upon so that we can receive encouragement in the Scriptures.

And these truths extend to more than just a devotion in the momentary sense--they extend to a multitude of areas in our life (2 Timothy 3:16) in a permanent sense. Whether it has to do with current affairs or politics, or pop culture, or you name it, the Bible as the Word of God can give us wisdom and insight to combat the ideologies and philosophies of man and become wise so that we are able to defend the faith (Jude 3).

This is my desire and hope for those however many or however few see it best to look in on this blog weekly. I will hopefully blog at least three times a week, but with school and work and family, and vacations scattered here and there, I might not be able to live up to all of the time.

So here it goes, for your reflection and encouragement...