Psalm 62

62:1 - I wait quietly before God, for my victory comes from him. - What does the way you wait look like? In the past I have either not waited and just pushed ahead or I have waited in a pouty/depressed kind of way. The call of Psalm 62 is for you and I to wait in peace. It is to tame our hearts and apply our faith to such a degree that we wait without stress. How we wait says a ton about what we truly believe and the true measure of our submission to God and His teaching. To wait any other way than in peace is to reject God's truth or worse yet to embrace it and yet not obey it.

62:2/6 - Some of the names used for God = my rock, my salvation, my fortress. I would encourage you to spend some time thinking about what each one of those things represent. A rock is a firm place to stand, but it is also a place where David would hide when the enemies came against him. It was a safe place. Take each one of these and just spend some time trying to understand why God is that and you will be truly blessed.

I love that the NASB says He only is all of these things. God is not one of the places I hide. God is not one source of my salvation and saving. God is not one of the places that protects me. God is the ONLY one and ONLY thing who can do any of that. Part of waiting on God is realizing that He is the ONLY source of hope you have. If we would focus our energy in times of trouble on God and not solutions, God would be all the solution we ever needed.

62:5 - Let all that I am wait quietly before God, for my hope is in him. The only people I have ever met who can wait in peace are those who truly have their hope in Him and not in something else. Truthfully, many of us hope in God AND ..... We hope in God and the test scores or God and our boss or God and the economy or God and .... If you want peace form God you have to hope only in god.

62:7 - My victory and honor come from God alone. He is my refuge, a rock where no enemy can reach me. - We need to apply this truth deep in our hearts. Our victory is not the result of our boss or the lottery or any of that nonsense. Our victory and honor come from God alone and if we would look to Him alone we would have more of it.

62:8 - How to wait patiently on God - Trust in Him and Pour out your heart to Him. It is that simple. some of us trust God, but we never open up and talk to Him. Others pour out their heart to God but they don't trust Him enough to follow Him. We have to learn to trust god and pour our heart and souls out to Him as a result of our trust. We need to wait in confidence and not in mystery. God will answer and it will be perfect, that is why there is no mystery in waiting on God.

62:10 - ... And if your wealth increases, don't make it the center of your life. - I think we will all read that verse, agree and then keep going when I believe the Spirit of God would beg us to stop and spend some time trying to see if we have indeed made our wealth the center of our lives. I would love to ask you a bunch of questions here to see if this is true, but I will not have near the impact the Holy Spirit will so I will pray. Dear Lord, please speak to every single person who reads this verse through my writing it to them. Please deeply convince us of the truth of this verse in our own lives. If we have made wealth the center of our life would you show us that so clearly it deeply moves us. Thank you.

62:11-12 - ... Power, O God, belongs to you; unfailing love, O Lord, is yours...

Love, Michael