Psalms 1 (The Message)

How well God must like you— you don’t hang out at Sin Saloon, you don’t slink along Dead-End Road,
you don’t go to Smart-Mouth College.

Instead you thrill to God‘s Word,
you chew on Scripture day and night.
You’re a tree replanted in Eden,
bearing fresh fruit every month,
Never dropping a leaf,
always in blossom.

You’re not at all like the wicked,
who are mere windblown dust—
Without defense in court,
unfit company for innocent people.

God charts the road you take.
The road they take is Skid Row.

I simply love this last verse, ‘God charts the road you take’.

The reason for loving it, is that I see that as the ultimate position in life. When you don’t try to do it on your own anymore, but just let God take over en care for you.

At what point in time do you reach that point? To really surrender everything, and to stop worrying about money, food, or anything else for that matter.

I finally reached a point at my job that I surrendered, and it made a world of difference. I can smile again in the mornings when I get up, I can do my job with a good attitude.

BUT (and this is a big but)

What will it take, for my sinful nature to take over again? What situation must satan throw at me, to make me not focus on God in everything that I do, and start to do it on my own again?

I know this will come again, if I don’t guard against this each and every day. I must arm myself with the weapons that the Lord gives us to ward of the attacks of the enemy, each and every day, and not just when I feel like it.

Tell me, how you guys do this, and how you protect yourself from the attacks of the enemy.