Pour Out Your Heart To The Lord

POUR OUT YOUR HEART TO THE LORD

Trust in Him at all times, you people; pour out your heart before Him; God is a refuge for us. —Psalm 62:8

I READ A STORY ABOUT A GUY WHO WENT TO A ELECTRONIC STORE to purchase a small digital voice recorder. The clerk who helped him purchase the recorder told him that he kept one just like it in his car when he worked in California. He explained “When I began driving home after work I switched it on, and I talked about everything that happened that day on the job, good and bad. When I pulled into my driveway, I hit the erase button.” Then he smiled. After telling everything to his voice recorder, he apparently had no need to go over the day’s problems with his wife or family.

It reminded me of how often I needlessly rehearse my disappointments and problems to others instead of telling them to God. The psalmist wrote: “Trust in Him at all times, you people; pour out your heart before Him; God is a refuge for us” (Ps. 62:8). Twice he spoke of waiting silently for God, his rock and salvation (vv.1-2,5-7).

Why should we seek Him? Because He has the power and the willingness, if we will trust Him, to give us a completely new nature. He will break the vain, frustrating, repetitious cycle.

Both Jesus and Paul remind us that our calling is rife with possibilities, so much so that we can consider each moment as big as eternity. It is as though the New Testament writers are saying, "Don't be like the slave who refuses when presented with freedom, or the diseased person who rejects help when offered healing. God's door is open to us! Cry out to Him and charge through it by cooperating with Him!"

While there is great comfort in sharing our difficulties with a friend, we miss the greatest help if we fail to bring them to the Lord Jesus.

Our lives are full of stress, anxiety and worry. As His Child, let’s be found pouring our hearts out to someone that can help us gain understanding and can bring peace and comfort to our hearts and minds. Remember! No matter where we are, Jesus is only a prayer away.

The hymn writer, Joseph Scriven, said it so well:

What a Friend we have in Jesus,
All our sins and grief’s to bear!
What a privilege to carry
Everything to God in prayer!
O what peace we often forfeit,
O what needless pain we bear,
All because we do not carry
Everything to God in prayer!