11/20/2008 Psalms 13:3

11/20/2008

Psalms 13:3 - 6 (HCSB) ³Consider me and answer, LORD, my God.
    Restore brightness to my eyes;
    otherwise, I will sleep in death,⁴my enemy will say, “I have triumphed over him,”
    and my foes will rejoice because I am shaken.⁵But I have trusted in Your faithful love;
    my heart will rejoice in Your deliverance.⁶I will sing to the LORD
    because He has treated me generously.

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We all have times of sorrow, and that feeling of being walked all over by everyone. We live in a society where everyone is taught to scramble for the top of the heap even at the cost of other’s emotions. We teach our children that each one can be at the very top of society both in power and money. Even we struggle daily to advance to the next position.

While there’s nothing wrong with advancing in one’s career, often other peoples’ lives are left damaged in the wake of our success. And often times, our lives are damaged in the wake of someone else’s success.

David was feeling like this. For many years after he had been anointed King, he lived as a servant to King Saul and many of those years he was even running in fear of his life from Saul. He lived in caves in the wilderness hiding from the king. But look how he finishes up the psalm.

“But I have trusted in Your faithful love;
my heart will rejoice in Your deliverance.”

One of the things that we can be absolutely certain of in all this world of uncertainty is the fact that God loves. That Love guarantees us the freedom to know that whatever happens to us, God will be with us and will comfort us. Knowing this, we should be happy to the point of singing of our God’s great love.

No matter what happens to you, nothing will ever be so tragic that God’s love cannot lift you back up.

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