POUR YOUR HEART OUT

Good News Bible: Ps 61:8 ‘Trust in the Lord at all times… TELL HIM ALL YOUR TROUBLES, for he is our refuge.
Men are all like a puff of breath: great and small alike are worthless.… Don’t put your trust in violence; don’t hope to gain anything by robbery; even if your riches increase, don’t depend on them.
More than once I have heard God say that power belongs to him and that his love is constant. You yourself, O Lord, reward everyone according to his deeds.’

A bit about the author. The majority of Psalms were written by David. He was a simple shepherd, a young son of Jesse. When Samuel went to anoint one of Jessie’s sons they were all lined up. He bypassed them all and said ‘Have you got any more sons?’ Only young David out in the fields with the sheep. Samuel went on to anoint David. This anointing carried David through from harp playing to the troubled King (Saul) to defeating Goliath and the Philistines with a stone from a sling, to fleeing from Saul’s jealousy and eventually becoming King by God’s sovereign will and his own popularity. David’s weaknesses are well recorded through his own songs, the psalms and through the books of Kings in the Bible. He was not allowed to build God’s Temple because God said he was a man of war. His son Solomon built it. David teaches me lots of things but mainly to pour out my heart. Let God know what you think, need and so on. David was known as a man after God’s own heart. His relationship with God as a shepherd and his TLC for his sheep led him to kill a bear and a lion with his nifty sling. What can you do with His help? Let God know whatever.