While watching the news one morning I felt ‘faint’ from all of the negative and violent input. When I turned the television off and sat still God brought this verse to my heart:
Psalm 27:13 “I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.”
Sometimes it isn’t easy for me to see the goodness of the Lord in the world around me until I stop and purposely tune out the noisy world around me and focus on the Lord Jesus and God’s Word.
After looking up Psalm 27:3 in my E-Sword, and the word “believed” in the Strong’s Concordance, I realized seeing the goodness of the Lord is more than simply believing…it is my properly building up or supporting that belief with God’s Word; my fostering it as a parent or nurse; putting my trust in the LORD. God reminded me that I have a part in my not fainting at the happenings of the world around me. Without properly caring for and nurturing my faith the world will consume it.
But God…none of His children have to live in fear or live lives of “when in trouble, when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.” Praise the Lord.
