The Lord is awe-inspiring, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him in Psalm 59:16-17,
“I will sing of your strength, in the morning I will sing of your love; for you are my fortress, my refuge in times of trouble. O my Strength, I sing praise to you; you, O God, are my fortress, my loving God.”
Saul had sent men to David’s house to watch for him and kill him. As David faced this circumstance he penned Psalm 59. “See how they lie in wait for me!” he calls out to God. David had his enemies, he had his dangers that he faced in this life.
While we might not face such violent and significant danger ourselves, we nevertheless face dangers as well. We live in a corrupted world dominated by people with a collective sin nature that would seek to do anyone harm if advantage could come of it. In the absence of that we face the dangers of all the evils the world would tempt us with. We face an internal enemy as well with our own sin nature that would seek to destroy us in its own quest for the satisfaction of its lusts and desires. If that were not enough, we always have the threat of the devil who would devour us if he could! Peter warns us, “Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of sufferings.” 1 Peter 5:8-9.
Even given these potential dangers, we can sing the same praise to God as David did! God was David’s strength! God was David’s fortress! God was David’s refuge in times of trouble! David recognized the love God had for him and the deliverance that was his at God’s loving hands! As Paul tells us, “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written: ‘For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.’ No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:35-39.
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share your theme of worship with us from your Bible reading today. We’d love to hear from you!
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