The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him and what came to my heart and mind in Psalm 11:1,
"In the Lord I take refuge. How then can you say to me..."
David was a man of deep faith. He trusted in the Lord. Not a perfect man and certainly not a man without sin, he nevertheless found his refuge in the Lord. Through his psalms we find he took great confidence in the Lord and looked to the Lord as his strength, his solid rock of refuge, the One under who's "wings" he took shelter when troubles came.
In this psalm David entertains the notions of someone of lesser faith. David anticipates his antagonist's counsel is to flee in the face of danger, something David could not fathom, given that the Lord was his strength, his refuge. This is what brings his question to his antagonist, how then can you say to me to flee?
David is fully assured the Lord is in his holy temple, sitting on his throne observing everyone on earth - examining them. He knows all, he sees all. David tells us the Lord loves justice and that those who are "upright", those who embrace the Lord in a like faith as his will see the Lord's face, but that those who reject the Lord, the wicked, he "hates with a passion", verse 5. On these people the Lord will "rain fiery coals and burning sulfur; a scorching wind will be their lot." Verse 6.
Here is a wonderful psalm that we should order our lives by, that should impact our thinking and our outlook: David points the way!
A blog with my ruminations over the years can be found here: http://worshipfortoday.blogspot.com/
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!
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"In the Lord I take refuge. How then can you say to me..."
David was a man of deep faith. He trusted in the Lord. Not a perfect man and certainly not a man without sin, he nevertheless found his refuge in the Lord. Through his psalms we find he took great confidence in the Lord and looked to the Lord as his strength, his solid rock of refuge, the One under who's "wings" he took shelter when troubles came.
In this psalm David entertains the notions of someone of lesser faith. David anticipates his antagonist's counsel is to flee in the face of danger, something David could not fathom, given that the Lord was his strength, his refuge. This is what brings his question to his antagonist, how then can you say to me to flee?
David is fully assured the Lord is in his holy temple, sitting on his throne observing everyone on earth - examining them. He knows all, he sees all. David tells us the Lord loves justice and that those who are "upright", those who embrace the Lord in a like faith as his will see the Lord's face, but that those who reject the Lord, the wicked, he "hates with a passion", verse 5. On these people the Lord will "rain fiery coals and burning sulfur; a scorching wind will be their lot." Verse 6.
Here is a wonderful psalm that we should order our lives by, that should impact our thinking and our outlook: David points the way!
A blog with my ruminations over the years can be found here: http://worshipfortoday.blogspot.com/
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!
If you have someone you would like to receive these ruminations, send me their email address. I'm happy to add them to the list. If you are receiving this and would like to be removed from the list, just reply and let me know..
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