No Frettin'

Has anyone ever asked, "who lit a fire under you"?  Yes, I've been asked that before … just not lately!

 

Do you know what it means when something is repeated in Scripture?  It means the same thing as when your mother repeated herself – “listen up, girl, this is important!”  In Psalm 37, three times - yes, three times -- the LORD led David to write "Fret not yourself." (V.1, 7, 8).  That word "fret" in Hebrew means "to burn, to kindle, to be incensed, to be heated".  And, how many times recently have you felt the flames, even lit your own fire; got yourself so worked up you could hardly stand it?  Yeah, I know - me, too!  We are told instead to "trust, delight, rest" in the LORD (V.3, 4, 7).  Stop the frettin' - move away from the fire into the Shadow of God's Wings where there is [both] place and opportunity for rejoicing (Psalm 63:7).  Stay there! Stay there! Stay there!  J