SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 8/1/2012 8:36:54 AM
My Worship Time Focus: Psalm 109 PT-3
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Psalm 109:21-31
Message of the verses: In Today’s SD we will look at the last main
point from the 109th Psalm remembering that it is the last of what
Bible Scholars call imprecatory psalms.
Lord Help Me! (vv 21-32): “21 ¶
But You, O GOD, the Lord, deal kindly with me for Your name’s sake;
Because Your lovingkindness is good, deliver me; 22 For I am afflicted and needy, And my heart is
wounded within me. 23 I am passing like
a shadow when it lengthens; I am shaken off like the locust. 24 My knees are weak from fasting, And my flesh
has grown lean, without fatness. 25 I
also have become a reproach to them; When they see me, they wag their head.
26 Help me, O LORD my God; Save me
according to Your lovingkindness. 27 And
let them know that this is Your hand; You, LORD, have done it. 28 Let them curse, but You bless; When they
arise, they shall be ashamed, But Your servant shall be glad. 29 Let my accusers be clothed with dishonor, And
let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe. 30 With my mouth I will give thanks abundantly
to the LORD; And in the midst of many I will praise Him. 31 For He stands at the right hand of the needy,
To save him from those who judge his soul.”
We see in
verses 21&27 that David appeals to God on the basis of His name, for David
knew that he could not come to God on his own merit, he then appeals to God on
the basis of one of His attributes, the attribute of love, for David knew who His
God was because David knew His attributes.
God would receive the glory for dealing kindly with David and for His
lovingkindness towards David. David
desired that God would do something wonderful for him so that the enemies of
David would understand that it was God who was working on the behalf of David because
of His love for David and because David was a faithful son of the covenant.
David was
poor and needy and desired for the Lord to know this so that He would help
him. Now we know that God knew this, but
it is good for us to tell God what our troubles are as this will increase our
faith when the Lord answers our prayers.
David was
weak from fasting, something that the Church would do good to remember and to
practice. David felt like his life was
almost over, but we know if this psalm was written before David became king
that down in his heart of hearts he knew that God would save him from this
trouble.
David wanted
the Lord to send him a blessing every time his enemies cursed him to then bring
shame on his enemies. Again we have to
remember that the Lord would make a covenant with David, that through his seed
the Messiah would be born and so David had the right to pray the way he did
about his enemies. Do we have that right
today? A question that needs to be
answered in a correct manner for we do not have the right to wish upon our
enemies the things that David did in this psalm if it does not bring glory to
the Lord and we know this because of what Paul writes: “Ro 12:20
To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty,
give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his
head.’” Paul also wrote that as
believers we can be angry, but we are not to sin in being anger and we are not
to let the sun go down on our anger. An
issue that is near and dear to my heart is the issue of abortion and abortion is
a great sin that has been going on in our country “legally” since 1973 and I
believe that it is right to be angry over this issue because I know that God is
angry over this issue. Should I do
something harmful to those who believe in abortion? The answer is NO, but we must remember that vengeance
is mine saith the Lord. I trust the Lord
to bring about the punishment that these people deserve in His own time and in
His own way.
In the last
portion of this psalm David promises to praise the Lord and to give glory to
Him when all these trials were over, and David was true to his word. We see that after David was made king that he
would bring the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem and he sought to honor the
Lord (See 2 Sam. 5-6). Dr. Wiersbe
writes, “God did help David, in His own time and His won way, and so He will do
for us.”
Spiritual meaning for my life today: Learning that God has His own plan for our
lives and will do things for us in His own way and in His own time is difficult
to handle at certain times in our lives, but as we go through the tests in life
that God brings to us we will have to trust the Lord, for He is always good and
will do what is best for us in order to conform us to the image of His Son.
My Steps of Faith for
Today: Trust the Lord to work in my
life so that I can bring glory to His name in a task that will be difficult for
me to do, but one that I believe that God will use to bring glory to His name.
Memory Verses for the Week:
2Peter 1:1-8
1.
Simon Peter, a bond-servant and apostle of Jesus
Christ ,
To those who have a faith of the
same kind as ours by the righteousness of our God and
Savior, Jesus Christ: 2. Grace and peace be multiplied to
you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, 3. seeing that His divine
Power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through
the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. For by these He has granted to us His
precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of
the divine truth, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust.
5. Now for
this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral
excellence, and in your moral excellence knowledge, 6. and in your knowledge
self-control, and in your self-control perseverance, and in your perseverance godliness,
7. and in your godliness brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness
love. 8. For if these qualities are yours and increasing, they render you
neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of Jesus Christ our Lord.
8/1/2012 9:32:21 AM
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