“My salvation and my honor depend on God…”
~~Psalm 62:7 ~~
So this morning I was doing Day 2 on the Trusting God topical study. I was to read Psalm 62. As I did, all I can say is that it was a big “OUCH!!!” for this people-pleaser? (Thank you Abba because I know the “ouch” was a growing pain).
Ok, check this out. The beginning of verse 7 stopped me in my tracks. Stepping out on a limb to be vulnerable here, here’s a snippet from my journaling.
“My salvation and my honor depend on God…”
My salvation…my eternity…depends on God. CHECK! I’ve accepted Christ and my eternity with You Father has been sealed. Got it!
My honor…hmmmm. (Looked up honor). Honor comes from the root word <kabod> which means to be heavy or weighty; causatively, to make weighty.
It’s important to know that, in the time and culture in which this was written, the value of things were determined by their weight. This fact is even referenced in verse 9 “Surely the lowborn are but a breath, the highborn are but a lie. If weighed on a balance, they are nothing; together they are only a breath.”
Let that sink in.
Whether you have a little or a lot matters not. “TOGETHER they are only a breath.”
How much does “a breath” weigh if placed on a scale?
Nothing. Nada. Zilcho. Zip.
That’s how much the temporal things we find our identity in are worth on the Kingdom scale. A big fat nothing. Now don’t misunderstand me. I’m not into self-abasing, but I am totally into God-exalting.
Look back to verse 7. My honor – what makes me weighty on the Kingdom scale – depends on God.
Me without God as my focus ~~ good things done for the kudos of people — things done to make myself look good in the eyes of people, kindnesses done to make myself “feel” valuable ~~ those things hold no honor. They weigh NOTHING on the Kingdom scale of eternity.
My honor – my “weightiness” – depends on GOD. It depends on sacrificial service, done for the good of others and the glory of God. That is what gives me honor – makes me weighty on the Kingdom scale.
For a recovering people-pleaser, this was a painful truth for God to drive home. But I got His message this morning, loud and clear. It’s God and what I do for HIS glory that gives me “weightiness”.
“My salvation and my honor depend on God…”