Psalms 64: 1  O God, listen to my complaint. Protect my life from my enemies’ threats. 2 Hide me from the plots of this evil mob, from this gang of wrongdoers. 3  They sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows. 4  They shoot from ambush at the innocent, attacking suddenly and fearlessly. 5  They encourage each other to do evil and plan how to set their traps in secret. “Who will ever notice?” they ask. 6  As they plot their crimes, they say, “We have devised the perfect plan!” Yes, the human heart and mind are cunning. 

7  But God himself will shoot them with his arrows, suddenly striking them down. 8  Their own tongues will ruin them, and all who see them will shake their heads in scorn. 9  Then everyone will be afraid; they will proclaim the mighty acts of God and realize all the amazing things he does. 10  The godly will rejoice in the Lord and find shelter in him. And those who do what is right will praise him.

I have been reading through one psalm every day with a devotional I am reading... the psalms to me sound often like the same thing over and over again so I have a hard time reading them in order... 

this morning as I am reading something clicks for me... 

I often wonder what it is that God loved so much about david.. he did not look like all that great of a man to me from his actions... which tells me that what I think makes someone a good person and what God thinks makes someone a good person are two entirely different things... 

so this morning I see.. while david complained about people in almost every single psalm.... much like me complaining to God every day... the difference is... at the end of every psalm... he changed from complaining to talking about God and His greatness... 

and that is something I do not do... while I think God is great... while I think He is the greatest part of my life........ if I am not saying it to Him.. and all He is getting from me is complaints about what is wrong.. rather than all that is right... then I do not have a very good heart now do I?.......... 

today I am going to challenge myself to write a psalm of my own every day for 10 days... I am going to possibly start out complaining.. but the real intention is to instead talk about the value of God in my life.. and that I really do recognize it...