Exodus 15:2 – The LORD is my STRENGTH and my SONG; he has become my SALVATION.

I need verbal cues to remember things.  Similar sounds that help me connect and retain things I’ve read.  So I was really excited when I saw this verse again this morning.  (Although, I’m pretty sure that Moses didn’t do that on purpose since He spoke Hebrew.)

I want to take this verse with me today.  I’m feeling a little lackluster today – headache, tired, low energy.  I am desperately drinking a strong cup of coffee this morning to revive me.  But,  I can hang on to the fact that:

God is my STRENGTH – That gives me HOPE.  I don’t have to rely on my own resources to do what I need to do today.  He will give me everything I need to accomplish what He’s laid out for me in this day.  He is the “muscle” that I so desperately need to do life well.

God is my SONG – That gives me JOY.  When I don’t have the energy or ability to come up with a “song”, when life seems to crowd out my smile, Jesus is my never-ending song and dance.  The song-writer, choreographer.

God is my SALVATION – He is my LIFE.  He is the source of all that I am, that I experience, that I say and do.  He resuscitates me, breathing life back into me.

Today, though I feel less than capable of doing, thinking or saying anything helpful or meaningful, I can rest in the fact that He is my STRENGTH, my SONG, my SALVATION.  He gives me HOPE, JOY  and LIFE.  And I think that those three in combination will do much more for me today than just this cup of coffee that I am gulping down.  S to the third power – it packs a punch….