When My Anxious Thoughts Multiply Within Me: Psalm 94-Supplication through the Scriptures
When My Anxious Thoughts Multiply Within Me Psalm 94 When I am tossed to and fro with various reasonings, distractions, questions, and forebodings, I will fly to my true rest, for thy comforts delight my soul. Spurgeon This morning, when you woke up, where did your thoughts immediately go? If you woke during the night, what kept you from sleeping? As you drove into work, what thoughts occupied your mind? For many of us, the thoughts that fill our minds at these moments are the things that concern us, the cares of our heart. When the cares of your heart are many, what do you do? When your anxious thoughts multiply, where do you turn? The seemingly endless swirl of anxious thoughts and the ways we cope with them can be exhausting and futile. Psalm 94 declares, “When the cares of my heart are many, your consolations cheer my soul.” the NASB says it this way, “When my anxious thoughts multiply within me, Your consolations delight my soul” (94:19). God’s comfort for the anxious heart c...