August Meditations - Jewell Utt
The month of August usually highlights the end of relaxed summer days for the return to a more ordered schedule. But this year is different. The Covid virus ushered in an age of uncertainty and perhaps lasting change. History has never seen the challenges we face today. Shut in for five months and counting, businesses suffer–many to never recover. Job loss stands at an all time high. Children are kept from regular school attendance. Civil unrest bursts forth with racial bias on every side, violence, rioting, the Pandemic of 2020, and all in an election year of raging bitterness.
That’s an impressive resume of confusion. And who is the author of confusion? Satan himself. So how do we remain whole and focused? Through meditation on the Word of God. 1 Corinthians 14:33a says, “For God is not a God of confusion but of peace.” We find peace in relationship to a loving God. The following are meditations that have kept me rested, yet challenged.
AN AUGUST ACRONYM
A Mighty fortress is our God http://bitly.ws/9A2y
Undergird (strengthen-secure) yourself with the waistbelt of truth http://bitly.ws/9A2P
Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life. http://bitly.ws/9A2T
Understand – “Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.” http://bitly.ws/9A34
Surrounded by God – Stand and fight http://bitly.ws/9A3n
The God of angel armies is always by my side http://bitly.ws/9A3r
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“The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom. Though it cost all you have, Get understanding.” http://bitly.ws/9A3d
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PSALM 8 – New American Standard Bible
The Lord’s Glory and Man’s Dignity. A Psalm of David.
O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth, who have displayed Your splendor above the heavens! From the mouth of infants and nursing babes You have established strength. Because of Your adversaries, to make the enemy and the revengeful cease.
When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained,
What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You care for him?
Yet, You have made him a little lower than God, and You crown him with glory and majesty! You make him to rule over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet; all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea, whatever passes through the paths of the seas.
O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth!
What challenges you to remain at your best?
