I RUN TO YOU GOD:
Psalm 18:1-6 (The Message (MSG) Version)
1-2 I
love you, God—
you
make me strong.
God is bedrock under my
feet,
the
castle in which I live,
my
rescuing knight.
My God—the high crag
where
I run for dear life,
hiding
behind the boulders,
safe
in the granite hideout.
3 I sing to God, the Praise-Lofty,
and
find myself safe and saved.
4-5 The hangman’s noose
was tight at my throat;
devil
waters rushed over me.
Hell’s ropes cinched me tight;
death
traps barred every exit.
6 A hostile world! I
call to God,
I
cry to God to help me.
From his palace he hears my call;
my
cry brings me right into his presence—
a
private audience!
...
16-19 But
me he caught—reached all the way
from
sky to sea; he pulled me out
Of that ocean of hate, that enemy chaos,
the
void in which I was drowning.
They hit me when I was down,
but God stuck
by me.
He stood me up on a wide-open field;
I
stood there saved—surprised to be loved!
20-24 God made
my life complete
when
I placed all the pieces before him.
When I got my act together,
he
gave me a fresh start.
Now I’m alert to God’s ways;
I
don’t take God for granted.
Every day I review the ways he works;
I
try not to miss a trick.
I feel put back together,
and
I’m watching my step.
God rewrote the text of
my life
when
I opened the book of my heart to his eyes.
…
28-29 Suddenly, God, you floodlight my
life;
I’m
blazing with glory, God’s glory!
I smash the bands of marauders,
I
vault the highest fences.
30 What a God! His road
stretches
straight and smooth.
Every God-direction is road-tested.
Everyone
who runs toward him
Makes it.
I RUN TO YOU GOD!
