💪Lift Up👆

 Set your affection on things above

Psalms 25:1 (KJV) Unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.

In order to lift up my soul I need to know what my soul is. We are told to love the Lord with all our heart, soul and mind. When we tell someone that we love them with all our heart what do we mean? 

When I say to my wife “I love you with all my heart” what do I mean? Does that mean?  I don’t love our children? I don’t love my mother and Dad? 

Of course not! Love is something we freely give. I love my wife, no one can makes me do that. When I tell her that, I’m saying, all my affections are for you. That being said, she and I both have affection for our parents, our children, our grandchildren and great grandchildren. When the line is drawn in the sand it’s not that you are my only affection, you are my greatest affection. Everyone will leave our home but she and I have decided to stay together with each other until death. No one makes us do that, we do that because we love each other greatly. So what is the soul? Is this not where everything comes from? My soul has feelings, emotions, concerns. When David said “I lift up my soul” is David not saying I lift up my affections, I’m communicating to you Lord in prayer, I’m drawing close to You O Lord, I’m lifting up my eyes. It’s hard for me to understand what men and women did to Jesus Christ. How did He feel when men slapped Him? How did He feel when He was spit on? How did He feel when men beat Him? How did He feel when people said awful words to Him? What did Jesus look like when He got to the cross before the nails were driven into Him? He could have stopped it with one word, but He didn’t. Instead Jesus in all His pain and disappointment said “Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.” Have we ever stopped and lifted up our soul like David? Think about what the Lord has done for us? I think it’s time to lift up our soul. Psalms 25:2 (KJV) O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me.

Psalms 42:1 (KJV) As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.

Matthew 22:37 (KJV) Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.