Psalm 5:3 "My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I
direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up."
My intention was to pick one verse or one thought from each
Psalm when I began this current study. But the last two words of today's verse
kept glaring at me all through the day yesterday. There is something about
those words, "look up," that caused my mind to keep thinking about
them. We all have seen the cartoons, or the real life times, when someone was
so caught up with what they were doing that they walked into a pole. In this
day and time, it's usually their phones that have captivated their attention.
For me, my incident was when I was in the fifth grade at good ole Union
Elementary. I believe the flagpole is still there to this day. That's
right, I was not looking where I was walking and as a result, I wound up at the
doctor's office receiving stitches just above my eye. I'm sure the scar is
still there. I was watching a group of kids as they were playing instead of
watching where I was walking.
Later in the Psalms, we will read these words: "For
innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon
me, so that I am not able to LOOK UP; they are more than the hairs of mine
head: therefore my heart faileth me." (Psalm 40:12) There are
times when it seems the weight of the world causes us to be stooped over and
unable to lift up our heads. There are times when we become distracted by the
things of the world and we do not pay attention to our daily walk. There are
times when sadness causes us to bow our heads toward the ground. We see two men
walking down the road to Emmaus on the day Jesus was crucified. They were
disheartened and discouraged to the point that they did not realize that the
risen Lord had come to them and was walking with them. The Word of God says
this about them, "But their eyes were holden that they should not know
him." (Luke 24:16) I'm so thankful that we serve the very One Who is able
to stir our hearts to the place where we can "look up." We saw back
in Psalm 3:3, "But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the
lifter up of mine head." We can be encouraged to know that when we
lift our voice unto the Lord that He, in turn, lifts our heads and we are able
to "look up." Thank you Father that you make all things new for
us and you give us a new outlook on life. Thank you for being the LIfter of our
heads.