29 SEP 23 Friday: A Closer Walk Devotional
“Your fierce anger has overwhelmed me. Your terrors have paralyzed me. They swirl around me like floodwaters all day long. They have engulfed me completely. You have taken away my companions and loved ones. Darkness is my closest friend.” Psalm 88:16-18
Do you ever get sucked into a mind game or battle? Relationships, communication, and conflict can cause you to second-guess yourself and really cloud your thinking. Sometimes the truth is veiled and you can’t find it. Sometimes it is there, but you don’t like it. Either way, it can shake you up mentally. Truth is our anchor which secures us when the storms of life come. It allows us to gain our bearings and make sense of things.
In the passage above, the descendent of Korah is dealing with the rejections of God. Korah and his followers led a rebellion against Moses and Aaron, thinking they should be allowed to go into the presence of God. God chooses who can come to him and to be in his presence. People couldn’t just decide for themselves and muscle their way in. That wouldn’t bode well and it didn’t.
In this case, God judged Korah and his followers by opening up a giant hole in the ground and swallowing them alive. Those family members who were left behind felt the rejection of God and the people. Some of the psalms were written by them. Sometimes we can feel like them as believers and enter a dark and lonely place. It feels like we have been abandoned and rejected, but if you are God’s children then you need to breakthrough this battle in the mind.
How? We must replace those feelings with the truth and grab hold of that anchor until the storm passes. Jesus did this very thing as he was being tempted by Satan in Matthew 4. Each time a false accusation or statement came to him, he parried it with Scripture. There is one caveat, if you are sinning and running from God, he will chastise you until you repent. So keep accounts short.
Are you experiencing a battle in your mind? Would you like to win?
Reading Plan: Psalm 88; 2 Kings 9: 17-37; 1 Cor. 7:1-9; Matt. 6: 7-15
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