Reading
SAA Notes
The Psalms show us people’s responses to life and all the sorts of things that can happen. They may not be very “politically correct”, just because they mirror how people really feel. The Psalms show you how you can come to God and bare your heart.
SJA Notes
* Gracious Lord God, please help us to take the log out of our own eye, remove from us hypocrisy and folly – Instead may our judgement refined and grown from Your word.
“Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am languishing; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are troubled.”
In these psalms David is crying out to the Lord from the depths of emotional turmoil, physical hardship and mental anguish.
David asks the Lord to hear his groaning, his cry.
We can cry to the Lord is sorrow and anguish, and He hears us! (He is faithful and true)
Let us be encouraged to take the time to be thoughtful of what we are going through (to ponder in our hearts on our beds, to be silent) – To think through what is on our mind, to be active in our day-in-out trust in the Lord, to be constant in prayer (bringing to Him our cares).
It is not hard to tap into what David is wrestling with here. Life is hard.
The psalms are a wonderful cool fresh balm that show us the depth of how God relates with us, and how we can in turn respond and speak to Him and wrestle with what is happening.
* God Above,
Thank You for the deliverance You provide in Your salvation plan – Saving us from our sin.
Please save us, for we cannot save ourselves!
Please be gracious to us, loving God.
Amen.