Lent: Stay with God!

Read Psalm 27 in the Message.

Key verses: Light, space, zest— that's God!  So, with him on my side I'm fearless, afraid of no one and nothing. . . . I'm sure now I'll see God's goodness in the exuberant earth. Stay with God! Take heart. Don't quit. I'll say it again:  Stay with God. Psalm 27: 1, 13-14.

I heard a terrific analogy by Andy Stanley recently. He was talking about hope and he said we all hope in something and hoping is like putting a ladder against a wall. The question is what wall do you lean your ladder against?

As a child it was your parents. Later you left that wall and perhaps put your hope in your self, or your job, or your spouse. For some maybe you put your hope in our savings, our 401k’s. Many of us put hope in America, or our leaders, or our president. Maybe we put hope in our church, our pastor, our elders.

I bet you know where this is going. All of those walls will break down at some point because this world is broken and anything of this world is likewise flawed and will break down. I bet you’ve got your own examples of where you placed your hope in something or someone – and it failed you.

For the psalmist, it was clear that there is only one wall, one source of hope – and that is God. “With him on my side I’m fearless, afraid of no one and nothing.” So, “stay with God. Take heart. Don’t quit.”

Put your ladder against the only wall that matters. Stay with God.