As you learn by the Psalms, in lots of passages, you get an excellent indication of David’s coronary heart throughout his large trial of fleeing for his life from Saul, coping with his son Absalom, and all that bother that got here with it.
His coronary heart may be very humble, as he’s operating for his bodily life. And he appears to waver backwards and forwards all through the entire state of affairs between concern and confidence, as any human would in his state of affairs.
Right here although, we discover him comforting himself with fact. Let’s take a better look…
Psalm 61:1-8
David begins off in verse 1 being extremely daring and direct with God. Hear my cry. I’m upset. I’m struggling. Lend your ear to me. Hearken to my phrases. Take heed…cease what you’re doing to take discover of this, that is essential.
And in verse 2, my favourite a part of the chapter. From the tip of the earth, I name to You when my coronary heart is faint.
This. is. absolute. knowledge.
Why?
What’s it that the majority males do when they’re simply utterly out? Drained, drained, exhausted in spirit, spent. They search for assist, however not often from God.
They search for assist in the type of an alcohol bottle to numb the ache. They search for assist from syrupy phrases that many evangelist preachers on TV sputter out to get your cash and allegiance. Those who promise to remove your ache, your sorrows, even bodily heal you. They promise to alleviate your burdens and all they do is make you MORE snug in your sin and poorer.
People look to medicine. They attempt to remedy their issues with intercourse, with overeating, and a myriad of different gods (!) however not THE true and Residing God.
David right here understands that. He understands all that different stuff is garbage and goes to the ONLY appropriate alternative: God Almighty. When my coronary heart is faint, he’s saying, I do know who to run to. I’m going to you!
Lead me to the rock that’s increased than I. The rock right here, that means God. Lead me to you. God, YOU are increased than me. He’s agreeing with God, lining up his coronary heart with God, totally admitting that God is supreme and sovereign. God is the last word. He’s #1. David is humbling himself earlier than God.
In verse 3, he’s stating why. Why do I’m going to you, why do I belief you? As a result of you will have proven your self to be highly effective. You’ve confirmed that what you say (you maintain your kids), you do. It’s not fluffy empty phrases to get me by. You again up your Phrase with motion. I’ve seen it. I’ve skilled that love, that safety, that grace. You’ve been a refuge to me, a tower of power. I’ve been capable of disguise in you and be secure and brought care of. YOU have carried out that.
I really like the remainder of verse 3, “towards the enemy”.
God makes certain to plug that in. We’re combating right here towards an enemy. We’re NOT combating different Christians.
Hearken to me very fastidiously.
All real believers are on the identical crew. Once you combat one another, you’re combating your individual crew member and the opposite crew, the enemy, seems at us and laughs at how silly we’re. And but I see continuous backbiting, gossip, Christians attempting to destroy different Christians.
Are you aware that while you combat a brother or sister in Christ, you’re combating GOD?!
Pay attention, that’s not going to finish effectively.
All day lengthy I’m attacked by Christians in varied methods, in varied conditions (legit believers, not folks masquerading as God’s kids). Defend your self, in fact, however by no means combat again a brother (a real believer). Higher to be slapped and take the offense and let GOD choose between you two, than to combat your individual crew member as a result of while you do, you place your self in direct opposition to God.
He WILL avenge His kids. Are you SURE you’re proper? How are you going to choose? You understand not your entire state of affairs, motives included. Take it to the Lord. Let HIM combat your battles for you. You stay harmless, innocent. Don’t go round harming His kids. In case you do, YOU shall be punished.
I take into consideration Kyle and the boys. They WILL be punished. How do I do know? They’re harming God’s youngster. However but, I don’t return and combat them again or search vengeance for myself. I wait patiently upon the Lord. HE will avenge me. HE will make issues proper. It’s my job to present it throughout to Him to evaluate and vindicate me.
In verse 4, he begins by asking, let me. He’s not demanding, pompous, conceited, or entitled right here. He’s asking. Please let me dwell in your tent, let me take refuge within the shadow of your wings.
It’s fascinating the phrases which can be chosen right here. Your tent, your tabernacle, your holy area.
To people, a tent is a spot to go tenting in. God’s definition of a tent means one thing a bit totally different. Tent to God is translated “character”, “coronary heart”, “soul”. The essence of who you’re.
Take into consideration the boys who sinned by taking treasures from the spoil of struggle and holding them, as commanded to not (Joshua 7:21). They hid the treasures of their tent. And whereas that was a bodily place, their tent, to God, that is saying, you hid sin inside your self. On the surface, the whole lot seems okay however open the tent (the character, the center) and wickedness and disobedience abound.
So from God’s perspective, David is saying, let me dwell in your character. In your coronary heart. Let me stay in You.
Whereas God lives in us, by way of the Holy Spirit, we’re ALSO to abide in Him. John 15:5 says “Whoever abides in me and I in him…” Discover the phrase AND in there. It goes each methods. We wish to stay in Him, totally rooted in His character, within the essence of Who He’s.
Once we are rooted in Jesus, we’re secure, protected, free, and completely satisfied. He is part of us and we develop into part of Him, near Him, dwelling inside Him. THIS is our secure place.
Not a church constructing, not alcohol or meals, however within the Individual of Jesus Christ. We stay throughout the shadow of His wings, inside Him.
As if all of that wasn’t already a variety of jewels, that is the place it begins to get good. Verse 5.
You might have heard my vows. He’s saying that when he prays God hears him, however I don’t suppose that’s all of it. There’s this sense of secrecy right here. A whisper. A softened voice. An intimate second between believer and Creator. You KNOW my vows. You’ve heard them, you’ve seen, you already know what these secret vows are. On the finish of verse 8, it says, “That I’ll pay my vows daily.”
Clearly, it could embrace obedience however as to what these particular vows are, it’s between David and God. The textual content doesn’t say what they’re particularly or the phrases he used, at the least not on this passage, so we don’t know.
Are you prepared for it to get good?
The second half of verse 5, you will have given me the inheritance of those that concern Your identify.
He’s saying, you’ll make me king. The inheritance is the folks. The folks he’ll very quickly rule over by God’s design.
Then in verse 6, you’ll extend the king’s life, His years shall be as many generations.
It’s not possible to stay your lifetime and several other others additionally, as reincarnation just isn’t Biblical. Somewhat, what David is referring to right here is the remembrance of him. David shall be remembered all through many generations for a number of causes. One is said within the subsequent passage.
This “His years” individual, in verse 7, is said as “He’ll abide earlier than God without end.”
There may be solely One man who has and may abide earlier than God without end: Jesus. David is aware of Jesus Christ will come from His personal lineage!!! How cool is that?!
And my mates, THIS is the place his confidence comes from.
If you already know {that a} MAJOR occasion, just like the start of Christ, was coming out of your lineage, you wouldn’t concern dying. If David dies, Jesus can’t be born* (!!), so for David, scared and operating for his bodily life, God has given him data and knowledge to know and greater than that, to consider, that he’ll NOT die (it’s exhibiting us the reality of Jeremiah 29:11).
*Please be aware: Jesus might nonetheless be born one other manner, not simply by David’s lineage, and we get that. We perceive God can sovereignly design Jesus’ start in any manner He needs to and doesn’t HAVE TO undergo David, however that it’s His will for Jesus to be born by David’s lineage.
God is saying, “Look, it could APPEAR like issues are loopy and you’ll die however I’ve larger plans. I wish to use you, for a terrific kingdom in the future”.
David rests in that truth, and it’s how I can relaxation too.
Right now, I’m behind on my mortgage over $98,000. My lender has began foreclosures on me and there’s a date set for them to promote my house proper out from underneath me. I’ve no household to assist me and since my church deserted me and is in open sin, I would not have a church to assist me both. I’m a single mother, no mother and father, no siblings, no assist!
However I’ve labored HARD over time for what I’ve. I’ve labored my guts out. AS a single mother with no assist, by the grace of God serving to me earn earnings, I used to be capable of put over $400,000 money down to purchase this home! I might promote the home proper now and keep away from foreclosures and consider me, I’m tempted!!!! I’ve requested and requested and ASKED God if I might promote this home and get out of this mess, however He repeatedly and persistently says NO! He says He’ll save me. Idk how. Idk when, however I consider He WILL save me.
Proper now as I sit right here and write this to you (August 1, 2024), it’s the first of the month and I’ve $0 for meals and I solely have yet another day’s value of meals. I don’t receives a commission until the Eighth-Twelfth when my paycheck comes and I’ve a pair payments going to hit my checking earlier than then, that can bounce. I don’t know HOW I’m going to make it by the subsequent week. I’m behind on just a few payments, together with my weblog internet hosting charges by just a few hundred {dollars}. If my host for this weblog decides to cease my weblog as a result of I can’t pay the cost, I’ll actually have ZERO earnings as that is the place my earnings comes from.
I’m in dire straights right here, praying day and night time (however I all the time pray day and night time, not JUST after I’m in bother). ❤️ I feel to myself, “Why is God permitting this? Doesn’t He see I’ve nothing? Why doesn’t He cease this torture NOW? Right now? I’m harmless, I’m innocent, He admits that…so why make me endure like this, for 10 lengthy, grueling, onerous years?
I can’t let you know the reply to that as a result of I don’t know. I simply know that I haven’t sinned on this state of affairs and why I’m on this state of affairs (the Kyle state of affairs) just isn’t my fault in any respect. I’m innocent. However that one way or the other God WILL get me out of it. In His treasured time. And within the meantime, if all I can eat is Prime Ramen, which makes you sick after some time because it’s not wholesome, then that’s all I can do. However I do know one factor is for certain. I’m NOT going to cease obeying and following My God, EVEN to the purpose of dying! Despite the fact that I endure by obeying Him, I select to endure…FOR Christ.
Whereas it’s a scary place to be, for certain (If I’m foreclosed on, I don’t even have cash to maneuver, we’d be compelled to stay in my automobile), I do know that if God forecloses on me, I gained’t be capable to begin up a church that He needs me to start out right here regionally.
We want THIS home, THIS front room that may simply maintain 10-15 folks comfortably. He gained’t foreclose on me. He’ll save me. Since I do know what’s coming (sooner or later), as David knew of his future and God’s plan for him, I can relaxation even amidst the sudden terror and torturous ideas of being foreclosed on.
The second purpose David can be remembered for a lot of generations is as a result of his story can be instructed inside a spot that’s unbreakable and won’t die, the Bible. One thing safely preserved era to era.
Whether or not or not David knew that He can be within the Bible, Idk, however he did perceive his place in Christ and the way God would use him and his lineage. That introduced him consolation. It was sufficient to assist him preserve going within the midst of an enormous trial.
Then the latter a part of verse 7 – appoint lovingkindness and fact in order that Jesus WILL be born and that we might protect that lineage, in order that your will could also be carried out.
And verse 8, regardless of terror throughout him, he discovered respite within the midst of all of it.
So, I’ll sing reward to Your identify. I can reward you on this storm. I can discover consolation and reduction within the face of amazingly powerful trials.
Expensive family members, if David can discover consolation and pleasure within the midst of being on the run for His bodily life, and I can discover consolation realizing my God will save me regardless of being foreclosed on and having completely nothing proper now, then no matter it’s you’re dealing with at this time, SO…CAN…YOU!!!!
He loves you. He cares for you. He is not going to allow you to fall. Nor will He let me.