The Climb (A Journey Through Psalms for Men)
God is Faithful
Day 3
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Psalm 3
A psalm of David. When he fled from his son Absalom.
Lord, how many are my foes!How many rise up against me!Many are saying of me,“God will not deliver him.”
But you, Lord, are a shield around me,my glory, the One who lifts my head high.I call out to the Lord,and he answers me from his holy mountain.
I lie down and sleep;I wake again, because the Lord sustains me.I will not fear though tens of thousandsassail me on every side.
Arise, Lord!Deliver me, my God!Strike all my enemies on the jaw;break the teeth of the wicked.
From the Lord comes deliverance.May your blessing be on your people.
I have felt my share of helplessness this year; most of us have
. As men, some of us have cared for loved ones while disease or time ushered them away. We've said goodbye to children we never held. We’ve lost jobs we thought were secure. We were betrayed by people in whom we had placed full confidence. Pain isn't foreign to God. Psalm 3 comes to us from David amid a "hostile takeover," meaning his son had stolen the kingdom and was searching for David so he could kill him. The one-time king is crying out to God in a moment full of bewildering despair, and yet in the middle of it, he remembers who his God is. God is a faithful sustainer—THE Sustainer. He does not turn a blind eye to injustice and sweep it under the cosmic carpet. He does not ignore our pain and our suffering that results from sin. He loves the desperate so much that He poured out the wrath due the world onto His own Son so that we could find peace in Him. Circumstances will be difficult and, at times in all of our lives, appear to be unbearable. But God has made way for each of us to find peace in Himself. All we have to do is remember who our God is, and cry out to Him. He is listening.
