Psalm _143
Scripture
Psalm 143:1
Yahweh, hear my prayer, listen to my cry for mercy; in your faithfulness and righteousness come to my relief.
Observation
“It is the outcry of an overwhelmed spirit, unable to abide in the highest state of spiritual prayer, again and again descending to bewail its deep temporal distress; yet evermore struggling to rise to the best things. The singer moans at intervals; the petitioner for mercy cannot withhold his cries for vindication. His hands are outstretched to heaven, but at his girdle hangs a sharp sword, which rattles in its scabbard as he closes his psalm.” - Charles H. Spurgeon’s Treasury of David Psalm 143
Understanding
“It is the outcry of an overwhelmed spirit…”
Have you ever felt like you have been punched in the spiritual gut. The kind of punch that takes your breath away. As I write this i am still trying to catch my breath.
The enemy comes to steal, kill, and destroy. And sometimes after you get punched he stands over you and dangles in front of you what he stole. It seems so utterly mean, to attack you when you did not see it coming. When you were trying to take care of important things, godly things, right things. Or maybe you were doing it all wrong but somehow what was stolen just doesn't seem fair.
The enemy is not fair. He is not good.
Yahweh is good.
Application
Psalm 143:8 Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life.
Run to God. No matter what the enemy has hit you with, it is not too much for Him. Pour out your heart the way David did, cry in His lap. Let God restore. Let God defeat.
Years ago I would have blamed God and lost hope. I would have decided to do things my way.
Yahweh is good. Yahweh is life. Yahweh is love.
I put my hope in you, there is no other that will lift me from despair. No matter how close to the ground I fall, no matter how far I fall in the depths of my despair, you are not far from me. My hope is in you, My hope has to be in you!
My soul cleaves to you and your right hand upholds me - Psalm 63:8
Deborah Lee