I love You.

I've read this Psalm too many times to count. Yet...I really don't remember ever reading this one verse. I love how the Lord does that. In our obedience in pursuing Him in truth, He blesses us. He blesses us with opening our eyes to truth that we've read or overlooked 20, 30, 100 times and BAM, it's in your face. He did that today! He's so good.

I love You, O LORD, my strength. Psalm 18:1

Wow. I read this and I'm just in awe. Sometimes it's so easy to be wordy with the Lord. To use a lot of words. To study a lot. To get knowledge and knowledge and more knowledge. But growing in affection and adoration is a different thing than growing in knowledge. They must be intermingled! How often do we, like the psalmist, simply say "I love You, O LORD..." I can just imagine David saying this. In the preview of the Psalm, it's explained this way,

"A Psalm of David, the servant of the LORD, who addressed the words of this song to the LORD on the day when the LORD rescued him from the hand of all his enemies, from the hand of Saul."

He opens with "I love You, O LORD."

Every single day Jesus rescues me. From myself. From my sin. From death. From my enemies. How often do I simply sit at the feet of Jesus and say "I love You. I love You. I love You?" I want what David had. I want a love for Jesus that overides and overwhelms every other love I have in this world. I want to be obsessed with Him.

I pray Psalm 18:1 becomes the cry of our hearts!

I love You, O LORD, my strength.