Psalm 28 (KJV): The Lord is my strength and my shield

From Psalms

Psalm 28
(Of David.)

¹Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock;
      be not silent to me:
lest, if thou be silent to me,
      I become like them that go down into the pit.
²Hear the voice of my supplications,
      when I cry unto thee,
when I lift up my hands
      toward thy holy oracle.

³Draw me not away with the wicked,
      and with the workers of iniquity,
which speak peace to their neighbours,
      but mischief is in their hearts.
⁴Give them according to their deeds,
      and according to the wickedness of their endeavours:
give them after the work of their hands;
      render to them their desert.
⁵Because they regard not the works of the LORD,
      nor the operation of his hands,
he shall destroy them,
      and not build them up.

⁶Blessed be the LORD,
      because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.
⁷The LORD is my strength and my shield;
      my heart trusted in him, and I am helped:
therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth;
      and with my song will I praise him.

⁸The LORD is their strength,
      and he is the saving strength of his anointed.
⁹Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance:
      feed them also, and lift them up for ever.

The Lord is my strength and my shield.  The Lord is not silent with me and he hears my cries for help.  In one week I will have 9 months have sobriety.  That 9 months has been full of temptation and urges and thoughts of acting out - but with the help of God I have remained abstinent and sober.  With the help of the Lord he keeps me from my pit of addiction.  (This use of a pit, is a visual that we have seen earlier in psalms, that I particularly like to describe pull and oppression of addiction.)

This 9 months has also come with a lot of healing and recovery.  Healing and recovery from wounds that I both ignored and didn't realize existed.  At only step 8 of the 12 step program I know I still have many wounds that I need to revisit and heal.  However, having seen the healing from where I began 9 months ago it easy for me to continue to trust in the Lord, and I rejoice in the healing that I have experienced thus far.  With this blog I praise him.

Like this Psalm, I will close with a prayer for others who suffer like I did.  That God, through the people in their lives, touch them like he touched me.  That He lift them up, our their pits of addiction.  That He feed them with the nourishment that makes them stronger and helps them heal and recover.  Amen.

Thanks for letting me share.