Singing Psalm 15 for help to be confident
- Karen Wallace
- Apr 4, 2022
- 6 min read
Updated: Jul 12, 2025
Ever think about the person you now want to become, if it were possible? “O Lord, who shall sojourn in your tent? Who shall dwell on your holy hill?”
It is only because the Lord is willing to turn your heart to care for others more than yourself that you can be confident in your answers to these questions.
Be confident at the dawn of life
Before getting dressed in the morning, you clothe yourself with Christ as he carries you through the day motivating you to do the work that he prepared in advance for you to do.
As you approach his throne of grace, you can be confident as you share what’s on your heart, confess, ask for forgiveness, accept forgiveness, ask for guidance, move forward and enjoy the work trusting that, even if no one else sees it, it is changing you, and the fact that it is changing you enables you to potentially bless someone else and is glorifying to God.
This is what makes getting out of bed each day worth it. Working with you in these details is part of how God makes his home with you and makes getting out of bed each day possible.
Be confident during life’s mid-day flashbacks
You can be confident even as you look back at past setbacks, challenges, failures and regrets and see his hand shaping your heart, thoughts, feelings, words, and actions, as you are continually communicating with him.
I don’t have to look back far to find thoughts that I think that are not glorifying God: people-pleasing, people-annoying, people-addicting, or people avoiding thoughts. I strive to immediately make those thoughts obedient to Christ by thinking about his person and work and come to him, run to him, in my mind.
I am almost never more alone than in a group of people, and the larger the group, the more alone. But Jesus takes me by the hand, brings me joyfully to worship him with his church each Lord’s day and sometimes gives me the hand of another to take hold of. Then I get to point someone else to him. He carries me to prayer meetings where I can silently or aloud commune deeply with him for the good of others. I get time with whomever he directs me to or whomever he directs to me. I trust him for this. He knows my frame. He knows my past. He knows my present. He knows my future. He leads this sheep who goes astray, as a good shepherd with gentleness. He is Gentleness. He is changing me from aloof and disengaged to gushing over him in requited love and is making me able to love others.
You are his if you strive to trust him with everything down to the deepest thought level, and he gives you access to run to him moment-by-moment with whatever makes you weary and burdened. Remember, you don’t have to run far since he has made his home within you by his Holy Spirit together with his Father. Heaven will be placed in you while on this earth before you will be placed in the new heavens and the new earth.
Be confident at the dusk of life
God determines my steps, though he calls me to plan ahead as if I will be here for the duration of a normal lifespan.
As I mark my calendar, especially for events that are well beyond today, maybe I don’t get to attend that event, meet that friend, do that task, or work on that article. It may be that before that time I fall asleep in Jesus and awaken to something totally new. Your time here is in his good hands whether long or short.
Knowing this, how long will you put off meditating on God’s word, making plans on how you will rely on Jesus knowing he has done the hard part and carries you to make it easy for you to be confident to follow him and his way?
Singing Psalm 15 for help to be confident
Singing psalms like this is a powerful way to partner with the Holy Spirit to transform your feelings and doubts into confidence that what is impossible for men is possible with God.
“He who does these things shall never be moved.” ~ Psalm 15:5b
Began: April 2, 2022
Completed and published: April 4, 2022
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Heart ♥️ reflection
December 30, 2024
“The Almighty—we cannot find him;
he is great in power;
justice and abundant righteousness he will not violate.
Therefore men fear him;
he does not regard any who are wise in their own conceit.” ~ Job 37:23-24
“Who has first given to me, that I should repay him?
Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine.” ~ Job 41:11
Question: Ever try going around the Lord to bring friends to the Lord? Attempting to please him in your own strength?
Heart Reflection: It is this that the Lord used suffering to free Job from. When his strength was gone, he could no longer think of it as a reason for God to bless him. God would do that once it was settled beyond any doubt that his own right hand could not save himself or anyone else. God’s mercy is his glory and would shine for all to see. It would not be stolen, mingled with, or muted by any of Job’s good works since he was rendered powerless to do them anymore until he credited God as he ought. This is how you can feel good for a friend when God brings something good for him or her but not for you. He has brought you to the school of relying on him and not yourself. He will keep you in that school, graduating you once you have solidly learned that whatever we have is from the Lord who is gracious and merciful and who owes us nothing. You learn to wait on him with no complaints, only with gratitude in your heart that you get to be with him who guides and frees us by his truth alone. Jesus would have you come to him who overcame every trouble. Take heart that he cares for you so that you can truly cast all your anxiety onto him. You can look to him for comfort and to those who closely follow how he connects and gives.
“O LORD, within Your tent
who will reside?
And on Your holy hill
who may abide?
Who walks in blamelessness,
Who acts with righteousness,
His heart will truth express—
It is his guide.” ~ Psalm 15:1-2
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The Psalms—Q&A
“O LORD, within Your tent
who will reside?
And on Your holy hill
who may abide? ~ Psalm 15:1
How can singing Psalm 15 help me grow in my affection for God and in my connection with others?
What do I do with the mounting frustration that comes from a terminal case of imposter syndrome? How do I proceed when I feel hopeless, that God sees right through me and every sensibility within me is screaming to explode with thoughts that seem to prove that I could never abide in him?
At the same time, you notice a difference in the way you care for others when no one is looking. You know that he is forming Christ in you causing you to come to Jesus and fix your attention on him, to love others more deeply from the heart, to abide in him. Jesus is offering you the opportunity of a lifetime when he makes it possible, in spite of every accusation, for you to abide in him.
“And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, ‘Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God.’” ~ Revelation 12:10
“Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.” ~ John 15:4
“He will not harm his friend,
Nor him defame;
He will not seek to spread
His neighbor’s shame.” ~ Psalm 15:3
Engage and grow together!
“Iron sharpens iron,
and one man sharpens another.” ~ Proverbs 27:17
Friday, July 11, 2025
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