Psalms 4:4-5 -- On Communing With Our Own Hearts

"Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the Lord."
Psalms 4:4-5


Some good advice here about standing in awe of God, sinning not, and trusting God. I thought the "commune with your own heart" part was interesting, and maybe something we don't think about all that often. Part of the gospel, and our purpose in life, I think it to figure ourselves out, which we have to do in order to make choices and commitments that we won't go back on... like our covenants with God.

I also think that the phrase "the sacrifices of righteousness" is interesting... because it is a sacrifice, or at least it feels like one when we run up against the places where our will and God's will don't mesh.  We have to sacrifice our pride and our rebelliousness, and join Christ in saying "not my will, but thine, be done" (Luke 22:42)... which can be super hard.

Today, let's commune with our own hearts and determine the obstacles and walls that we've built to keep God out... and then let's work to take those walls down as part of our sacrifice for the Lord, and also part of our individual purification... the idea with all the sacrifices we make for God is that we are giving up things that are holding us back from being our best selves.  It feels vulnerable to take down our barriers, but God is worthy of our trust, and will bless us with hope, joy, and peace as we do so.