Psalm 13:2
2 How long shall I take [shiyth] counsel [`etsah] in my
soul, [nephesh] having sorrow [yagown] in my heart [lebab] daily [yowmam]? how long shall mine enemy ['oyeb] be exalted [ruwm] over me? KJV-Interlinear
2 How
long shall I take counsel in my soul, Having sorrow in my heart all the day?
How long will my enemy be exalted over me? NASB
How long, is the yearning
cry of the person who is in anguish.
Counsel in my soul, is a
reference to the thoughts and ideas and methods tried by the individual, to get
out of their predicament. But nothing works.
Sorrow in the heart is
the result of the ongoing anguish of a situation that has no earthly solution.
When a person is backed
into a corner by difficulties, and has no way out, then the fears, the worries,
the pains, the anxieties and so forth seem to take over the life.
And the worst of it
all? Time.
Time keeps passing by
with no solution, with no relief, and the person who lacks a spiritual life,
who lacks spiritual resources within their soul has only the worries and anxieties
of life to keep them company.
This is a part of the lesson
of this psalm.
If you have not been
faithful to Gods mandates, if you have not been faithful to a daily Bible study,
if you do not live your life in fellowship, then your resources are limited to
your inner fears. And they will consume you sooner or later.
Inner fears drive people
to reality escapes like drugs and alcohol and eating disorders, or being
consumed with work or activities, and so forth.
And those things are never solutions, but in fact they drive you even
further into the troubles of the world.
Enemies mentioned here
are not combat enemies, but apply to all opposition to your positive thinking
and cognitive abilities. Your troubles,
your illnesses, your inner mental deficiencies, your handicaps, people around
you who gossip about you, the world in general which places even further
burdens with bills and external difficulties like things breaking and falling
apart around the home or work, all of these things just compound a situation
that was not good in the first place, making it all the worse.
And how long will all of
these things continue?
Well, that most likely
depends on how long you will be reluctant to get with a daily Bible study
program for your life.
God is the solution to
everything, but if all you do is whine and complain and worry and grumble, then
you cannot learn what the real solutions are, and all you are left with is your
mental anguishes.
Unfortunately too many
folks want a miracle and they want it now.
Too many folks want someone else to do things for them. They want others to pray for them, when they
are perfectly capable of praying for themselves, but do not, or their prayers
are ineffective because they do not know how to pray correctly. They want
others to make it better, when no one can make it better.
And all the while, the
answer is right in front of each persons nose.
Bible study.
Bible study today. Bible study tomorrow. Bible study the next day and so on and so
forth for every remaining day of your life, be that days or decades.
The real you is in your
soul. The real you is what you
think. What you think is what you bring
into your soul and from that comes your inner strength, or lack of it.
Only Bible doctrine
provides true inner strength and spiritual muscle. Everything from this world experiential,
academic, philosophical or otherwise, gives you nothing to support you in times
of real hardship. Because none of those
things have real solutions.
God alone through
doctrine in the soul is the only solution.
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