March 30, 3013 He Understands You

Read Psalms 147-148 He Understands You Psalms 147:1- Praise the Lord. How good it is to sing praises to our God, how pleasant and fitting to praise him! 2 The Lord builds up Jerusalem; he gathers the exiles of Israel. 3 He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. 4 He determines the number of the stars and calls them each by name. 5 Great is our Lord and mighty in power; his understanding has no limit. YOU like it when someone understands you, don’t you? When someone understands you, you feel affirmed. Do you feel God affirms you? As the psalm says, “his understanding has no limit,” do you feel that God’s understanding includes how much he understands you? I pray you do, because the Bible is God’s story to help you understand how much God does truly understand you. He knows who you are because He created you in His image. You reflect His characteristics. Your emotions come from God. Your thoughts and desires originate in God because He, or course, created you to think and feel. Even more, God understands you because He has been like you. In Jesus, come in the flesh, God knows how life on earth can be a hard life. He knows about temptation, and God knows about death. God has mourned as a man, and God has laughed and spent quality time with his earthly parents and friends. Truly God understands who you are. That’s why it should be easy for you to (Proverbs 3:5-6) trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, (because when you do) he will make your paths straight. It’s True! God understands even you.