To Sustain (verb)

Have you ever thought about the people from the Bible you want ot meet when you die? Is it weird that I've spent a fair amount of time doing this?

I really want to meet David. These days I can really relate to a lot of the Psalms he wrote. I know he did a lot of great things - slaying Goliath and all that jazz, but I think he was a lot more of a "normal person" just like me. I think David would be a character who impacts a lot more people if people understood what most of his life was actually like.

Anyway. Psalm 55 is ringing true with me this morning. This particular Psalm has been in my heart the last couple weeks. Particularly verse 22:

Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you;
he will never let the righteous be shaken.
Psalm 55:22

What really speaks to me is the word choice here - it cuts straight to the core of my heart and understands it so perfectly.

Sustain (verb) - to support, hold, or bear up from below; bear the weight of, as a structure
(2) to bear (a burden, a charge, etc.)
(3) to undergo, experience,, or suffer (injury, loss, etc.); endure without giving way or yielding
(4) to keep (a person, the mind, the spirits, etc.) from giving way; as under trial or affliction
(5) to keep up or keep going, as an action or process; to sustain a conversation

A lot of days I don't honestly feel like I have enough of anything to sustain myself. This verse speaks to my heart and says that I don't have to. GOD sustains me - it isn't my job to be superwoman, because I'm not.

Think about that definition. Sustain.

Cast your cares on the Lord and HE WILL SUSTAIN YOU;
he will NEVER let the righteous be shaken.

Maybe you're feeling like you, too, need to be superman or superwoman today. Just stop. Let the power of those words  and the truth they hold rock your world.

Be amazed and be changed.