REJOICE, FOR GOD SEES YOUR AFFLICTION
This Psalm of David teaches us to choose gladness and worship, while giving our troubles to God. David wrote that God had “seen” his trouble. In other words David had stopped thinking about his affliction and had given it to God for His consideration.
This was how the disciples prayed too, “Lord, look upon their threats and grant to your servants to continue to speak your word with all boldness” (Acts 4:29). We can ask the Lord to “look” at whatever threatens us, so we might focus on doing His will. When we continue to consider our own trouble it leads to discouragement and worry. But when we give our afflictions to God, it opens the way to gladness and rejoicing.
PRAYER: Dear Father, we have lifted up our troubles to You in prayer today. We are Your children, so we know that You see our trouble as Your own. Knowing this, we will be glad and rejoice. Not because our troubles are gone, but because we choose to stop focusing on them ourselves. For we have given them to You. In Jesus’ name, amen.