Monday, November 02, 2009
i have been stressed. i'm not the only one. seriously, what's in an assignment that makes people lose sleep, lose appetite, lose tempers? i don't know. but today perhaps in a timely fashion our class was made to do this survey on how we viewed our final year. it made me and a few other christian frens realize that our motivations have been so wrong. i guess something there is about the fourth yr, seeing everyone job hunting, finding jobs that makes it stressful in the light of impending graduation. i'm no exception to the stress, to thoughts of the future. yet in all this, i thank God who has been faithful in my studies, for checkpoints along the way (the survey), for friends and family who give proper direction. And today, whilst I was praying God gave me this psalm.
Pslam 16
1 Keep me safe, O God, for in you I take refuge.
2 I said to the LORD, "You are my Lord; apart from you I have no good thing."
3 As for the saints who are in the land, they are the glorious ones in whom is all my delight.
4 The sorrows of those will increase who run after other gods. I will not pour out their libations of blood or take up their names on my lips.
5 LORD, you have assigned me my portion and my cup;you have made my lot secure. 6 The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance. 7 I will praise the LORD, who counsels me; even at night my heart instructs me. 8 I have set the LORD always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
9 Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest secure,
10 because you will not abandon me to the grave, nor will you let your Holy One see decay.
11 You have made known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.
Help me O Lord to be secure in You
holding on to you.
11:34 PM
