"Shake it off, shake it off"

Psalm 11:3, "When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do?"

David was fleeing and his enemies were attacking him.  Those who counseled him were freaking out thinking the foundations of the Mosaic Law and the institution of Judaism were being shaken.  As Dr. Constable put it...they were distressed to the point of distraction.  Man, did that hit a nerve...that "ME TOO" moment of connection you have with someone.  

It's that bump in the road and all the sudden you are incapable of functioning because it has knocked your feet out from under you.  You're Henny Penny yelling, "The sky is falling!"  For me, it's that email or comment from someone (they may not even be someone whose opinion I value) and all the sudden I'm hyper focused on what I'd say ('specially in a dark alley) or what I wished upon them often calling down imprecatory prayers just as David does in Psalm 11.  I can't focus on the work sitting on my desk, on my list of to-dos, on the people in my life that I love and deserve the best of me.  Or, this week, it's a yucky task that is looming on my calendar and everything else fades away as the very thing I am dreading I have allowed to be center stage in my life...letting the yuck rent space in my head.  Ugh this flesh.  

Wiersbe commented, "God sometimes 'shakes things' so that His people will work on building the church and not focus on maintaining the scaffolding."  Okay, so I'm a work in progress (Phil. 1:6, "Being confident in this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on until the day of Christ Jesus.")  David, in all of his fleeing, sought refuge in his stronghold, the Lord.  When his counselors suggested going to a physical stronghold, he refused.  Robert Frost wrote, "...and miles to go before I sleep"  So, I sit here trying to hold that thought captive to the TRUTH that "The Lord is in His holy temple; the Lord is on His heavenly throne, He observes the sons of men; His eyes examine them....For the Lord is righteous, He loves justice; upright men will see His face. (Psalm 11: 4,7)"  Then I try to "shake it off, shake it off" keeping my eyes and mind on things above knocking out these miles to go before I sleep and rest in Him.