Truth of the Day Every time I come through a battle, God welcomes me back. Personalizing This Truth

Praying Through the Psalms Day 199

Psalm 21:3
You welcome him back with success and prosperity.
You placed a crown of finest gold on his head.

Truth of the Day
Every time I come through a battle, God welcomes me back.

Personalizing This Truth
Although this verse is particularly talking about God welcoming back the person who has gone out and fought in His name and returned with the victory that God has promised, I like to look at it in a slightly different way. For me, and probably many of you

, when I reflect over my life, I don’t see myself often returning in triumph over some great victory. I see myself more like the man in the Prodigal Son story that basically crawled back to his father in shame and guilt. More often than not, I find myself returning to God after another failure and wonder could He really welcome me back with success and prosperity. After all, I didn’t win. I lost.
But that is not the way that God looks at it. You see, by the very nature that I see my failure and through that defeat desire to seek God, He sees that act and that attitude right there as VICTORY. I believe that sometimes He sees that humility as a far greater victory than had I attained that thing in which I had failed. Whereas it is so natural for us to beat ourselves up over our failures, that is not what God wants us to do. So why do we continue to beat ourselves up? It is probably because we have learned that trait from other people who love to remind us in various ways, some subtle and some overt, how disappointing we are.
But we must stop listening to the voice of others and stop listening to our voice and listen to what God says.

Prayer
Father God, I have failed often in my life and I know I will fail again, but each time I return to You, You proclaim it victory. Though I myself and others look at it from an earthly perspective and see me as a failure, You see me from Your perspective and count me as victorious