As you read by the Psalms, in plenty of passages, you salvage a actually true indication of David’s coronary heart during his massive trial of fleeing for his life from Saul, going by his son Absalom, and all that disaster that came with it.
His coronary heart is extraordinarily humble, as he’s working for his bodily life. And he appears to be like to waver backward and forward all the diagram by the total disaster between dread and self belief, as any human would in his disaster.
Here though, we fetch him comforting himself with truth. Let’s snatch a more in-depth stare…
Psalm 61:1-8
David starts off in verse 1 being extremely bold and articulate with God. Hear my sob. I’m upset. I’m struggling. Lend your ear to me. Eavesdrop on my phrases. Take grasp of price…live what you’re doing to know gaze of this, that is obligatory.
And in verse 2, my well-liked phase of the chapter. From the pause of the earth, I call to You when my coronary heart is faint.
This. is. absolute. records.
Why?
What is it that most men produce after they’re correct fully out? Drained, drained, exhausted in spirit, spent. They stare for wait on, however no longer many times from God.
They stare for wait on within the form of an alcohol bottle to numb the grief. They stare for wait on from syrupy phrases that many evangelist preachers on TV sputter out to salvage your money and allegiance. These who promise to know away your grief, your sorrows, even bodily heal you. They promise to attend your burdens and all they produce is form you MORE contented for your sin and poorer.
Other folks stare to medicines. They fight to resolve their complications with sex, with overeating, and a myriad of diversified gods (!) however no longer THE correct and Living God.
David here understands that. He understands all that diversified stuff is rubbish and goes to the ONLY ethical resolution: God Almighty. When my coronary heart is faint, he’s announcing, I know who to urge to. I’m going to you!
Lead me to the rock that is better than I. The rock here, meaning God. Lead me to you. God, YOU are better than me. He’s agreeing with God, lining up his coronary heart with God, fully admitting that God is supreme and sovereign. God is the closing. He’s #1. David is humbling himself prior to God.
In verse 3, he’s declaring why. Why produce I’m going to you, why produce I trust you? On story of it’s possible you’ll presumably need shown yourself to be extremely efficient. You’ve proven that what you say (you snatch care of your kids), you produce. It’s no longer fluffy empty phrases to salvage me by. You encourage up your Phrase with action. I’ve considered it. I’ve skilled that love, that protection, that grace. You’ve been a refuge to me, a tower of power. I’ve been in a location to disguise in you and be safe and sorted. YOU beget performed that.
I indubitably fancy the leisure of verse 3, “in opposition to the enemy”.
God makes obvious to whisk that in. We’re combating here in opposition to an enemy. We’re NOT combating diversified Christians.
Eavesdrop on me very fastidiously.
All true believers are on the an identical crew. Have to you battle each diversified, you’re combating your grasp crew member and the diversified crew, the enemy, looks at us and laughs at how uninteresting we’re. And but I search trusty backbiting, gossip, Christians looking to kill diversified Christians.
Live you know that within the event you battle a brother or sister in Christ, you furthermore mght will be combating GOD?!
Listen, that’s no longer going to entire successfully.
All day prolonged I’m attacked by Christians in diverse ways, in diverse scenarios (legit believers, no longer other people masquerading as God’s children). Provide yourself with protection, needless to teach, however beneath no conditions battle encourage a brother (a correct believer). Better to be slapped and snatch the offense and let GOD identify between you two, than to battle your grasp crew member because within the event you produce, you effect yourself in articulate opposition to God.
He WILL avenge His children. Are you SURE you’re true? How are you going to study? You realize no longer the total disaster, motives integrated. Take grasp of it to the Lord. Let HIM battle your battles for you. You remain harmless, blameless. Live no longer whisk around harming His children. Have to you produce, YOU will be punished.
I middle of attention on Kyle and the boys. They WILL be punished. How produce I know? They’re harming God’s child. However but, I produce no longer whisk encourage and battle them encourage or see vengeance for myself. I wait patiently upon the Lord. HE will avenge me. HE will form things true. It’s my job to provide it in every single put apart to Him to study and vindicate me.
In verse 4, he begins by asking, let me. He’s no longer tense, pompous, smug, or entitled here. He’s asking. Please let me dwell for your tent, let me snatch refuge within the shadow of your wings.
It’s attention-grabbing the phrases which are chosen here. Your tent, your tabernacle, your holy dwelling.
To humans, a tent is a region to head tenting in. God’s definition of a tent ability something a little bit diversified. Tent to God is translated “character”, “coronary heart”, “soul”. The essence of who you furthermore mght will be.
Take into story the boys who sinned by taking treasures from the damage of battle and keeping them, as commanded now to now not (Joshua 7:21). They hid the treasures of their tent. And whereas that became a bodily region, their tent, to God, that is announcing, you hid sin within yourself. On the outdoor, every little thing looks ok however originate the tent (the character, the coronary heart) and wickedness and disobedience abound.
So from God’s point of search, David is announcing, let me dwell for your character. For your coronary heart. Let me are residing in You.
While God lives in us, throughout the Holy Spirit, we’re ALSO to abide in Him. John 15:5 says “Whoever abides in me and I in him…” Ogle the observe AND in there. It goes both ways. We’re looking to are residing in Him, fully rooted in His character, within the essence of Who He’s.
After we’re rooted in Jesus, we’re safe, safe, free, and snug. He’s a phase of us and we change into a phase of Him, shut to Him, region within Him. THIS is our safe region.
No longer a church building, no longer alcohol or meals, however within the Individual of Jesus Christ. We’re residing within the shadow of His wings, within Him.
As if all of that wasn’t already masses of jewels, that is where it starts to salvage true. Verse 5.
You beget heard my vows. He’s announcing that after he prays God hears him, however I don’t think that’s all of it. There’s this sense of secrecy here. A dispute. A softened allege. An intimate 2nd between believer and Creator. You KNOW my vows. You’ve heard them, you’ve considered, you know what those secret vows are. At the pause of verse 8, it says, “That I’m able to also pay my vows day-to-day.”
Obviously, it will per chance presumably contain obedience however as to what those particular vows are, it’s between David and God. The text doesn’t say what they’re particularly or the phrases he oldschool, no longer lower than no longer in this passage, so we don’t know.
Are you ready for it to salvage true?
The 2nd half of of verse 5, it’s possible you’ll presumably need given me the inheritance of those who dread Your title.
He’s announcing, you will form me king. The inheritance is the other people. The other people he’ll very rapidly rule over by God’s invent.
Then in verse 6, you will lengthen the king’s life, His years will be as many generations.
It’s far no longer doable to are residing your lifetime and quite quite a bit of others also, as reincarnation is no longer Biblical. Reasonably, what David is referring to here is the remembrance of him. David will be remembered all the diagram by many generations for quite quite a bit of reasons. One is connected within the next passage.
This “His years” person, in verse 7, is connected as “He’ll abide prior to God forever.”
There could be easiest One man who has and could abide prior to God forever: Jesus. David is aware of Jesus Christ will come from His grasp lineage!!! How frigid is that?!
And my chums, THIS is where his self belief comes from.
Have to you know that a MAJOR match, fancy the beginning of Christ, became coming out of your lineage, you wouldn’t dread death. If David dies, Jesus can’t be born* (!!), so for David, terrified and working for his bodily life, God has given him records and records to designate and better than that, to take into consideration, that he’ll NOT die (it’s exhibiting us the truth of Jeremiah 29:11).
*Please indicate: Jesus also can peaceful be born one other technique, no longer correct by David’s lineage, and we salvage that. We designate God can sovereignly invent Jesus’ beginning in any technique He desires to and doesn’t HAVE TO battle by David, however that it’s His will for Jesus to be born by David’s lineage.
God is announcing, “Seek, it will also APPEAR fancy things are crazy and likewise you will die however I beget bigger plans. I are looking to make employ of you, for a huge kingdom sometime”.
David rests in that truth, and it’s how I’m able to leisure too.
This present day, I’m within the encourage of on my mortgage over $98,000. My lender has began foreclosure on me and there’s a date diagram for them to sell my dwelling true out from beneath me. I beget now not any family to wait on me and since my church abandoned me and is in originate sin, I produce no longer beget a church to wait on me either. I’m a single mom, no of us, no siblings, no wait on!
However I’ve labored HARD through the years for what I beget. I’ve labored my guts out. AS a single mom without a wait on, by the grace of God helping me build earnings, I became in a location to effect over $400,000 money all of the diagram in which down to amass this dwelling! I’m able to also sell the dwelling straight away and steer remote from foreclosure and take into consideration me, I’m tempted!!!! I’ve asked and asked and ASKED God if I’m able to also sell this dwelling and salvage out of this mess, however He many times and persistently says NO! He says He’ll effect me. Idk how. Idk when, however I take into consideration He WILL effect me.
Dependable now as I sit here and write this to you (August 1, 2024), it’s the first of the month and I beget $0 for meals and I easiest beget but but every other day’s price of meals. I don’t receives a commission till the Eighth-12th when my paycheck comes and I beget a pair bills going to hit my checking prior to then, that can leap. I don’t know HOW I’m going to form it by the next week. I’m within the encourage of on about a bills, including my weblog web hosting prices by about a hundred dollars. If my host for this weblog decides to remain my weblog because I’m able to’t pay the payment, I will indubitably beget ZERO earnings as that is where my earnings comes from.
I’m in dire straights here, praying day and evening (however I continuously pray day and evening, no longer JUST after I’m in disaster). ❤️ I think to myself, “Why is God allowing this? Doesn’t He search I don’t beget anything else? Why doesn’t He live this torture NOW? This present day? I’m harmless, I’m blameless, He admits that…so why form me suffer fancy this, for 10 prolonged, grueling, exhausting years?
I’m able to’t repeat you the answer to that because I don’t know. I correct know that I haven’t sinned in this disaster and why I’m in this disaster (the Kyle disaster) is no longer my fault at all. I’m blameless. However that in a diagram God WILL salvage me out of it. In His precious time. And within the meantime, if all I’m able to utilize is High Ramen, which makes you sick after a whereas as it’s no longer wholesome, then that’s all I’m able to produce. However I know one ingredient is for obvious. I’m NOT going to remain obeying and following My God, EVEN to the purpose of death! Despite the indisputable truth that I suffer by obeying Him, I identify on to suffer…FOR Christ.
While it’s a horrifying region to be, for obvious (If I’m foreclosed on, I don’t even beget money to trudge, we’d be compelled to are residing in my car), I know that if God forecloses on me, I won’t be in a location to initiate up a church that He desires me to initiate here within the community.
We need THIS dwelling, THIS lounge that will with out bother retain 10-15 other people comfortably. He won’t foreclose on me. He’ll effect me. Since I know what’s coming (eventually), as David knew of his future and God’s conception for him, I’m able to leisure even amidst the surprising fright and torturous thoughts of being foreclosed on.
The 2nd reason David would be remembered for quite a bit of generations is because his memoir would study within a region that is unbreakable and also can peaceful no longer die, the Bible. Something safely preserved generation to generation.
Whether or no longer or no longer David knew that He would be within the Bible, Idk, however he did designate his region in Christ and how God would employ him and his lineage. That brought him comfort. It became ample to wait on him retain getting into into the midst of a big trial.
Then the latter phase of verse 7 – appoint lovingkindness and truth so as that Jesus WILL be born and that we are able to also tackle that lineage, so as that your will will be performed.
And verse 8, no matter fright all the diagram by him, he learned respite within the midst of all of it.
So, I will mumble reward to Your title. I’m able to reward you in this storm. I’m able to fetch comfort and help within the face of amazingly subtle trials.
Expensive cherished ones, if David can fetch comfort and pleasure within the midst of being on the urge for His bodily life, and I’m able to fetch comfort fascinating my God will effect me no matter being foreclosed on and having absolutely nothing straight away, then whatever it’s far you’re going by currently, SO…CAN…YOU!!!!
He loves you. He cares for you. He’s no longer going to permit you to plunge. Nor will He let me.