SOAP Psalm 45:1

Psalm 45:1

Scripture:
My heart is stirred by a noble theme
as I recite my verses for the king;
my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

Observation:
God has a knack for stirring up things inside of us. He fills us with dreams and visions. If we should choose to receive His Spirit, there is no way we can not be moved by His mercy and His justice, His grace and His compassion. And then the things we do begin to reflect more and more of His nature, and our love for Him begins to take shape like the infinite depth of His for us. And we sing and dance praises to Him, lest our hearts grow restlessly agitated from the uncontainable joy.

Application:
I think its no accident that I'm writing my final essay in First Language Acquisition about the acquisition of language in blind children. I think its no accident that I'm doing the subjects that I'm doing at all. The two things that have really stirred in my heart up til today have been vision and generational responsibility. I'm believing in a future. And it takes vision to steer in the "right" direction. It takes vision to build over the foundations that Christ has laid, such that our future generations are one step closer to the promises we all hold on to. Without vision, we may well be settin our hands to building the wrong house for our children to grow up in (see Haggai 1).

Prayer:
Creator God, who has made all things good, and who has already laid down the foundations upon which our work is to be set on, all praise my little heart can sing be to You. May the purposes and meaning that You intended for this Earth be advanced here, just as You imagined, just as You desired, just as You promised. For the children whom Your Kingdom embraces, give us the wisdom, the necessary resources to equip them, to raise them up as sons and daughters of the most high King. Forgive us Lord, for our distractions with our own selfish agendas. Restore to us again the correct blueprints for the right House, and burn the contracts that seek to distract and bind us. And all we strive towards Father, all that we hold hope for, all that we have been called to work and steward, they are Yours and for Your Kingdom.

Amen.