In the days after a lot of activity, it can be hard to ‘wind down’ our minds and reengage with ‘normal’ life. The hum of the rush lingers, we must refocus and set our hearts and minds as they need to be in Christ.

This is a marvelous time to begin a bad habit, maintaining the busyness because the lack of busyness feels so strange. Where time opens up, we should offer it first to God. Where we look around to see if there is something still undone, we should turn our hearts toward Him. Learn to refocus, recenter our minds, patterns and hearts on Him, reset our spirits (as it were) by starting again with Him. Don’t just blunder forward in busy days and hope for the best. Instead start each day with Him and trust in Him first. Any other focus will lead us to discord, stress and harm in the end. In Christ alone, who gives our lives purpose and redeems us, can we find a plan for life worth trusting in…the plan to GoLove others, removing focus from self and mirroring the heart of God.

Trust in God Alone
For the choir director: according to Jeduthun. A Davidic psalm.

“1 I am at rest in God alone;
my salvation comes from Him.
2 He alone is my rock and my salvation,
my stronghold; I will never be shaken.

3 How long will you threaten a man?
Will all of you attack
as if he were a leaning wall
or a tottering stone fence?
4 They only plan to bring him down
from his high position.
They take pleasure in lying;
they bless with their mouths,
but they curse inwardly. Selah

5 Rest in God alone, my soul,
for my hope comes from Him.
6 He alone is my rock and my salvation,
my stronghold; I will not be shaken.
7 My salvation and glory depend on God, my strong rock.
My refuge is in God.
8 Trust in Him at all times, you people;
pour out your hearts before Him.
God is our refuge. Selah

9 Men are only a vapor;
exalted men, an illusion.
Weighed in the scales, they go up;
together they are less than a vapor.
10 Place no trust in oppression,
or false hope in robbery.
If wealth increases,
pay no attention to it.

11 God has spoken once;
I have heard this twice:
strength belongs to God,
12 and faithful love belongs to You, Lord.
For You repay each according to his works.”