RR Psalm 28:7b Part 8
Rabbi’s Reflections - Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Shalom,
Psalms
Psalm 28:7 – Part 8
Psalm 28:7 Adonai is my strength and my shield. My heart trusts in Him, and I was helped. Therefore my heart leaps for joy, and I will praise Him with my song.
Yesterday, we dealt with this same, verse 7, part a. Today, let’s deal with part b, Psalm 28:7b My heart trusts in Him, and I was helped. I’m currently rereading Eitan’s second book, “With All Your Heart” https://www.tikkunglobal.org/product-page/with-all-your-heart The book contains 33 chapters broken into 7 parts.
The title is taken from Jeremiah 29:13 You will seek Me and find Me, when you will search for Me with all your heart. However; it could just as easily come from the well known passage of Deuteronomy 6:5a Love Adonai your God with all your heart.
Today, we are dealing with the trusting heart, and since none of Eitan’s 33 chapters deal with a trusting heart (per se, many chapters dance around it), I’m hereby submitting this RR as chapter 34 to my friend for review (unsolicited). Tomorrow I’ll propose chapter 35, titled “A Heart That Leaps For Joy,” taken from Psalm 28:7c. You can read chapter 34 (proposed) now. Here is my foundational verse from Proverbs…
Proverbs 3:5 Trust in Adonai with all your heart, lean not on your own understanding.
My late mother-in-law, Millie Manno, Z”L, was well known for one of her pet sayings, “What are you gonna do?” Another way to look at it is, “Who are you gonna trust?” What are the options? God? He’s obviously the best option, we’ll get back to Him in a moment. Satan? His very name means “adversary.” Why would anyone trust the one who is against you? Besides, he is a liar, so how can you trust someone you can’t trust? That would be absurd.
Yeshua replied to the Judeans who had just claimed to have Abraham as their father… John 8:44 You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks lies he is just being himself—for he is a liar and the father of lies.
Let’s ask yet another question… are you gonna trust yourself? One quick question should answer that… “How has that been working out so far?” What was part b of our foundational verse from Proverbs? “… Lean not on your own understanding.”
Another option would be to trust people you know, or people you don’t know. However; beware, over time people will let you down. After all, they’re human, and humans have faults. Ecclesiastes 7:20 Surely there is not a righteous person on earth who does what is good and doesn’t sin.
That leaves God to stand alone as the only one who is trustworthy. There is a Hebrew idiom, “Simu Lev” meaning (figuratively) pay attention, but literally, “put your heart.” We trust God by paying attention to what He has to say. Proverbs 4:20 My son, pay attention to my words—incline your ear to my sayings. 21 Do not let them out of your sight, keep them within your heart. 22 For they are life to those who find them and health to their whole body.
When we trust in God, His promise is that He will help us. With God as my helper, I need help from no other. Yeshua put it this way… John 6:63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is of no benefit. The words I have spoken to you are Spirit and are life!
“Betach bo!” Trust in Him! When we take everything that makes our heart the center of our thoughts, emotions and passions and focus our full attention on the wisdom of God, He promises to turn that into our blessings. That is “the trusting heart!” Shalom shalom.
Daily Bread, reading plan by Lars Enarson (https://www.thewatchman.org/)
Tue6-May 20258th of Iyar, 5785
Day 17 of the Omer
Le 17:8-18:21Isa 59Job 151 Jn 4 (Mt 15)
Shalom,
Psalms
Psalm 28:7 – Part 8
Psalm 28:7 Adonai is my strength and my shield. My heart trusts in Him, and I was helped. Therefore my heart leaps for joy, and I will praise Him with my song.
Yesterday, we dealt with this same, verse 7, part a. Today, let’s deal with part b, Psalm 28:7b My heart trusts in Him, and I was helped. I’m currently rereading Eitan’s second book, “With All Your Heart” https://www.tikkunglobal.org/product-page/with-all-your-heart The book contains 33 chapters broken into 7 parts.
The title is taken from Jeremiah 29:13 You will seek Me and find Me, when you will search for Me with all your heart. However; it could just as easily come from the well known passage of Deuteronomy 6:5a Love Adonai your God with all your heart.
Today, we are dealing with the trusting heart, and since none of Eitan’s 33 chapters deal with a trusting heart (per se, many chapters dance around it), I’m hereby submitting this RR as chapter 34 to my friend for review (unsolicited). Tomorrow I’ll propose chapter 35, titled “A Heart That Leaps For Joy,” taken from Psalm 28:7c. You can read chapter 34 (proposed) now. Here is my foundational verse from Proverbs…
Proverbs 3:5 Trust in Adonai with all your heart, lean not on your own understanding.
My late mother-in-law, Millie Manno, Z”L, was well known for one of her pet sayings, “What are you gonna do?” Another way to look at it is, “Who are you gonna trust?” What are the options? God? He’s obviously the best option, we’ll get back to Him in a moment. Satan? His very name means “adversary.” Why would anyone trust the one who is against you? Besides, he is a liar, so how can you trust someone you can’t trust? That would be absurd.
Yeshua replied to the Judeans who had just claimed to have Abraham as their father… John 8:44 You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks lies he is just being himself—for he is a liar and the father of lies.
Let’s ask yet another question… are you gonna trust yourself? One quick question should answer that… “How has that been working out so far?” What was part b of our foundational verse from Proverbs? “… Lean not on your own understanding.”
Another option would be to trust people you know, or people you don’t know. However; beware, over time people will let you down. After all, they’re human, and humans have faults. Ecclesiastes 7:20 Surely there is not a righteous person on earth who does what is good and doesn’t sin.
That leaves God to stand alone as the only one who is trustworthy. There is a Hebrew idiom, “Simu Lev” meaning (figuratively) pay attention, but literally, “put your heart.” We trust God by paying attention to what He has to say. Proverbs 4:20 My son, pay attention to my words—incline your ear to my sayings. 21 Do not let them out of your sight, keep them within your heart. 22 For they are life to those who find them and health to their whole body.
When we trust in God, His promise is that He will help us. With God as my helper, I need help from no other. Yeshua put it this way… John 6:63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is of no benefit. The words I have spoken to you are Spirit and are life!
“Betach bo!” Trust in Him! When we take everything that makes our heart the center of our thoughts, emotions and passions and focus our full attention on the wisdom of God, He promises to turn that into our blessings. That is “the trusting heart!” Shalom shalom.
Daily Bread, reading plan by Lars Enarson (https://www.thewatchman.org/)
Tue6-May 20258th of Iyar, 5785
Day 17 of the Omer
Le 17:8-18:21Isa 59Job 151 Jn 4 (Mt 15)
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