28 Dec Meditations on the Psalms #55
Day 55
Psalm 28: Read here – https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2028&version=NASB
In this Psalm we see the heart in a few different aspects: The evil heart (v3), the trusting heart (v7), and the rejoicing heart (v7). Vs 1& 2 are an invocation V3 a supplication and v6ff give us the answer: he trusted God and God helped him. V8 David ends with intercession for Israel.
In the opening of the psalm, David was both trusting and hopeful. In faith he gave God the title he longed for Him to fulfill; to be David’s Rock in the present season of difficulty. David said this also in hope because at the moment he felt God to be silent.
There are seasons when chaos strikes our lives, leaving us shattered. Or unrelenting darkness descends. Or an arid wind we don’t even understand blows across our spiritual landscape, leaving the crust of our soul cracked and parched. And we cry to God in our confused anguish and he just seems silent. He seems absent. We have all been in this lonely, disorientating, weary wilderness, and while there we lament.
In reality, God wasn’t absent or silent or indifferent at all toward David. It’s just how it felt to him at the time. When we feel forsaken by God we are not forsaken, we are simply called to trust the promise more than the circumstances of life.
Why is water so much more refreshing when we’re really thirsty? Why do deprivation, adversity, scarcity, and suffering often produce the best character qualities in us while prosperity, ease, and abundance often produce the worst?
Absence heightens desire; the more heightened the desire, the greater its satisfaction will be. It is the mourning that will know the joy of comfort Matt 5:4. It is the hungry and thirsty that will be satisfied Matt 5:6. Longing makes us ask, emptiness makes us seek, silence makes us knock, Luke 11:9.
God’s silence is how it feels, it’s not how it is. God is speaking all the time in His word, don’t rely on the subjective impressions of your fluctuating emotions. It’s the desert that draws us to the well of the world to come.
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