Following the wording and style of Psalms, focusing on God as the subject and answer to everyday life, no need for rhymes, but giving attention to flow and patterns. Now it has become one of my recurring devotional exercises, as a way of praying to and praising the Lord. Give it a try sometime! Here is one I put together recently while reflecting on how thoroughly God’s salvation meets our every want and need.

After reading the Psalms for so long I felt like making one of my own – following the wording and style of Psalms, focusing on God as the subject and answer to everyday life, no need for rhymes, but giving attention to flow and patterns.

Now it has become one of my recurring devotional exercises, as a way of praying to and praising the Lord. Give it a try sometime!

Here is one I put together recently while reflecting on how thoroughly God’s salvation meets our every want and need:

The Lord will not abandon you
He will deliver you from all your troubles
He will destroy all your enemies
The God of all comfort will not leave you in your sorrow
Broken hearts will be pieced together again
All your tears will be wiped away
He will free you from your poverty
Your slave driver will be driven away
A pile of bills will crush you no more
He will heal your loneliness in his own arms
and settle you with your loved ones
The Lord will not abandon you to your weakness
frail bodies will be made strong
broken minds will stand up from their chains
the blind will see and the crippled dance
missing pieces will be found together
The Lord himself will overcome all your needs
Cravings will not bully you and passions not prod you
Golden arches will no longer command you
Prince charming will have no charm left
Cinderella cannot capture your gaze
When your eyes see him they will never search again
The Lord will not leave you in fear
Your terror will be torn to pieces
The dark of night will be bright as day
The Almighty will not forget your assailants, or the vile deeds against you
His justice will drag them away in disgrace
They will eat the filth they poured on you and the eyes of all victims will see it
Our God will not abandon you to the grave
No coffin will be able to contain you
None of your ashes will be left behind
The dust that formed you will form you again
The waters will produce you on command
The depths dare not hide you
The Lord will not abandon you to your sins
Your soiled clothes will be washed
Those bonds of shame will turn to ash
You will hold your head high to meet your maker
He himself has removed your disgrace
and pardoned your gravest offenses
The Almighty Father has not forgotten
the saving Son will deliver
though he lingers, he never fails
Those who know the Lord rejoice in him
Sing his praise, you poor and weak
You who sorrow declare his goodness
You oppressed declare his justice
In the time of evil shout his triumph
His future is your present
He is the Lord. He never fails.

Rev. Aaron Vriesman is Pastor at North Blendon Christian Reformed Church (CRC) in Hudsonville, Mich. This article is used with his permission.