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Friday, May 10, 2019

Jesus Christ our Song- Psalms 13



Please read Psalm 13

As we read this Psalm we find in the first verse a desperate cry from David. He was going through a very difficult situation and his feelings were of despair and hopelessness! Have you been in this situation? I have… many times, to a point when I’ve cried like the Psalmist:

“Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?”  (Psalm13:1)

Of course, God did not forget David. God did not hide His face from David -or any of us- but David felt like it. When we have such strong feelings then the feelings create their own reality, which can in a way distort the truth. David felt God had forgotten him, and felt God was hiding. So, in a sense, it was true for David, but true according to what he was feeling at the moment, and not according to fact.

It is so important to remember we are not to rely on our emotions, on our feelings because:

The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure.  Who can understand it?” (Jeremiah 17:9)

We can't live by our feelings because of this. In this sense, it was all right for David to feel these emotions, and good to take them to God, but he should never accept the reality of feelings as a definite reality.

But we should:” 14 Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the flesh”. Romans 13:14

I praise our Father for His Word, for those amazing Psalms we can run to whenever we are under trials and as soon as His Word starts to sink into our souls, as the rain sinks into the dry land… then we feel renewed, and our lament turns into praise though His Holy Spirit in us! (Psalms 30:11)

Yes, as we continue to focus on God then our burden seems lighter and then we can pray like David did on verse 3:

“Consider and answer me, O Lord my God;
Give light (life) to my eyes, or I will sleep the sleep of death,” (AMP)

“Give light (life) to my eyes”… in the NIV we also read “lighten mine eyes”. This is what Paul prayed for the Christians in Ephesus:

”... that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power.(Ephesians 1:17-19)

Right after praying this way, he actually received God’s light into his spiritual eyes so he could clearly see and recognize WHO he was trusting, -right at that moment and many other times before- just as if a fog had cleared away from his eyes!

But I have trusted and relied on and been confident in Your lovingkindness and faithfulness; My heart shall rejoice and delight in Your salvation.” (13:5)

Finally his hope was renewed and he recognized he could always trust in God's mercy. Yes, when we can't trust anything else, we should always trust in His abundant mercy!


I will sing to the Lord, Because He has dealt bountifully with me.” (13:6)


With enlightened eyes, David then is able to bring to his memory “who” he is in God, and joyfully can declare God's goodness, and so can we!


Yes, let us rejoice in Him because of His unfailing Love, He IS and always has been so GOOD to us, even when we deserve nothing from Him!! To Him be the Glory and the Honor Forever!!

Mari