Psalm 62
January 10, 2021
Heavenly Father,
We praise you that you are our rock, our salvation, our fortress. No one can shake you and if our hope and trust is in you, we will not be shaken. Father, help us to actually take refuge in you, teach us to run to you, to cling to you, and to trust in you always. David tells us in this Psalm to trust in you at all times, to pour out our hearts to you because you are our refuge. Teach us, Father, how to do this. Change our desires so that we want to pour our hearts out to you and make us a people who pray.
So much was wrong and hard in 2020 and just because the year on the calendar changed our whole world has not. When times are hard and many things are stripped away, we often begin to learn that you are our refuge. We may be more likely to cling to you as our Rock. And this is good and you use hard times to refine us and draw us closer to you. Father, for those of us you have grown in this way in 2020, help us to not walk away from you as our refuge as things (hopefully) take a turn for the better in our world. As we draw closer to you in hard times, help us to stay close and still pursue an ever closer relationship in good times. As David says, “though your riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.” Whether our riches are money, health, the end of a pandemic, political stability, racial reconciliation, or the return to our “normal,” help us to not set our heart upon these riches, but rather help us set our hearts upon the riches of Christ.
Jesus, as we seek you, we ask that you would be leading the future pastor of Centennial Church to be seeking after you as well. We trust that you know who it is that you have for us and we pray that you would be growing him in his relationship with you now. Be with our pastoral search committee. We ask that you would give them discernment, open communication, prayerful consideration, and grace. Logistically, we ask that you would give them time in their schedules to meet and fulfill the duties of this committee without added stress. We ask that in the end, you would lead our church to the pastor you have for us and that the process would bring you glory.
Father, we thank you for Pastor Dan and Beth. Thank you for the blessing they have been to us and for the friends that they have become. We ask that you would guide them to their next steps when it is time. We pray that you would give them peace with the inability to have solid plans as we don’t know how long the pastoral search process will take. And we thank you that we still have many months with them.
Father, along with David, help us to find our hope in you.
And all God’s people said,
Amen.