Psalm 40 ~ YOU are my help and my deliverer

 

Psalm 40

I waited patiently for the Lord;

    He inclined to me and heard my cry.

2 He drew me up from the pit of destruction,

    out of the miry bog,

and set my feet upon a rock,

    making my steps secure.

3 He put a new song in my mouth,

    a song of praise to our God.

Many will see and fear,

    and put their trust in the Lord.

4 Blessed is the man who makes

    the Lord his trust,

who does not turn to the proud,

    to those who go astray after a lie!

5 You have multiplied, O Lord my God,

    Your wondrous deeds and Your thoughts toward us;

    none can compare with You!

I will proclaim and tell of them,

    yet they are more than can be told.

6 In sacrifice and offering You have not delighted,

    but You have given me an open ear.

Burnt offering and sin offering

    You have not required.

7 Then I said, “Behold, I have come;

    in the Scroll of the Book it is written of me:

8 I delight to do Your will, O my God;

    Your law is within my heart.”

9 I have told the glad news of deliverance

    in the great congregation;

behold, I have not restrained my lips,

    as you know, O Lord.

10 I have not hidden Your deliverance within my heart;

    I have spoken of Your faithfulness and Your salvation;

I have not concealed Your steadfast love and Your faithfulness

    from the great congregation.

11 As for you, O Lord, You will not restrain

    Your mercy from me;

Your steadfast love and Your faithfulness will

    ever preserve me!

12 For evils have encompassed me

    beyond number;

my iniquities have overtaken me,

    and I cannot see;

they are more than the hairs of my head;

    my heart fails me.

13 Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me!

    O Lord, make haste to help me!

14 Let those be put to shame and disappointed altogether

    who seek to snatch away my life;

let those be turned back and brought to dishonor

    who delight in my hurt!

15 Let those be appalled because of their shame

    who say to me, “Aha, Aha!”

16 But may all who seek You

    Rejoice and be glad in You;

may those who love Your salvation

    say continually, “Great is the Lord!”

17 As for me, I am poor and needy,

    but the Lord takes thought for me.

You are my help and my deliverer;

    do not delay, O my God!

We often think of the story of Job as unparalleled. Job wasn't formally anointed by God.  Yet Job was constantly in God's thoughts.  There are 42 Chapters in The Book of Job. 

David does parallel Job to some extent. King David's life story is included in 4  Biblical Books, in 90 Chapters of historical narrative. David authored half of the Book of Psalms.  David is discussed in 28 different Books across the Bible.

David Psalm 54

Job protests he is not a sinner. David proves he is a sinner.  God proves Job is a sinner. Yet both David and Job survive their struggles with patience. And faith, believing God will help. David is barely a groom as his troubles begin and he has no children, but as the solutions arrive, he is the father of many grown adults as his problems begin to heal.  At least 20 years, if not more. David is crowned 4 times as Israel becomes ruled by our anointed David.

God Loves Joshua and Caleb during the 40 years of the Exodus. They patiently waited in faith. Jeremiah waits faithfully. Habakkuk was patient to survive with joy and gratitude.

The Lucy Charlie Brown portion is just tiring. And really sorta boring. The unblessing isn't where we want to stay. 

To survive in life, we have to have God to rely upon when the rest of the world runs around without much need for kindness. I always thought the movies about evil, like the original with Clint Eastwood and the devils. And the Keanu Reeves movies about evil, that evil would eventually tire of evil. And circumstances change. To rely on God and His Promises seems the way to make sense of the world. The world changes; God is always steadfast Love.  The Light is always reliable to be more joy, more love, more comfort, more hope and the best way to live life. God is Light and in Him we find Strength, Intelligence and the Forever Plan. 

How would God deal with years of struggles? 

Ezekiel spoke with The Lord about Job. And included some of David's situations and ours.

Ezekiel 14:13,14

“Son of man, when a land sins against me by acting faithlessly, and I stretch out my hand against it and break its supply of bread and send famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast, 14 even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness, declares the Lord God."

James 5

10 As an example of suffering and patience, brothers, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. 11 Behold, we consider those blessed who remained steadfast. You have heard of the steadfastness of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is compassionate and merciful.

We always pray

for the Mercy of God

And this will

Arrive

Daily

and

also Forever

So David, faced famine. Could David fix this famine? Famine usually means a hunger for life staples. But famine means starvation and this is on many levels. David did not fix the famine. God did. David did his part by acting as God explained to David. The instructions would not make David seem wiser to the world, but David expected God's Mercy and received. David made sure the plan of God was fulfilled. David many times jumped in as Abraham did, but still the Victory is the Lord's.

The Lord has said Ecclesiastes 3

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

And in this time, reading the Post, we have taken time to look at the overcoming of the world and the troubles Jesus said we would have. And the history of war is good and evil. The valor we want to live. The peace we wish to experience, basically, constantly.  The meaning of war is to overcome evil. Not to become evil.

We would hope our days, our history of the culture we live ... is becoming more worthy and having valor and bravery.  To meet our challenges and to become more worthy of building a future for our children and their children. Not to denigrate what has been our blessing to participate in. 

In gratitude, we thank God for the Blessings we have participated in.

In Strength, we will not fall and bring down our children and our children's children in the ease and drama of violence.  Usurping the law, which is, the very workings of peace. 

In Joy, we will live lives of Valor and Courage.

In anticipation of the Plan of God, we give mercy. Living eternity, in this moment, and the minutes of all of our days.

For every life, there is but one time and one season,

let us draw Strength from the Goodness of God and go forth. 

These are the days given to us, let us do good. 

John 21

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