Lessons from the Word

As I have been pouring through the Psalms with the help of Matthew Henry's commentary I have been greatly blessed by what I am learning and convicted at the same time. Repeatedly we are called to bless God and praise His name. I was really convicted about the time I spend "bored" whether at work or home. I have always been quick to claim boredom when I am not immediately engrossed in some fun activity.
From Psalm 134 Henry points out that we should converse with God when we have nothing else to do. I have always been quick to pray as I lay in my bed waiting for sleep to befall me or when I have woke and completed my devotions but I never thought in those times when I am prone to whine and complain that I do not have anything to do to lift up my voice to the Almighty. From 135 I learned we are to take all occasions to speak well of God. How often we are quick to admit our accomplishments but even those only take place because of Him.
He also points out that the idols in biblical times were made by human hands and people still would worship them. They would worship things that could not even make themselves. This applies today too, whatever takes up most of our thoughts is an idol to us and those are things that God has blessed us with but we in turn praise the thing and not God. Maybe it is something you don't have but want, there is a reason why you don't have it. What we really NEED is God and that is it. God will never be all you need until He is all you have. This statement is so true for my life. I had to have nothing left, nothing in my control before I really came to God.
Another sobering thought from Psalm 139 is that God knows our moves, imaginations, all we say and what we think and every part of us because He made us. Even when we think we can hide in the darkness, God made that too and it is just like light to Him. There is no where we can hide from God. So why not surrender your all to God?
God knows when I got an unreasonable bill that I was sure my insurance would cover that I started freaking out and not trusting Him. He allowed that to be, if it is a mix-up and they are going to pay, His is in control, if not and I have to pay He will provide, because He is in control. As Psalm 136 repeats "His mercy endures forever". Like my verse on my desk says: Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart." Was I trusting yesterday? NO! Did I need to let go and let God? Yes. Let me tell you it still is not easy to let Him take care of me but through prayer and the Holy Spirit anything is possible.