Trusting Him

DEVOTION

PSALMS

TRUSTING HIM

Ps 43

Vindicate me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation; rescue me from deceitful and wicked men. 2 You are God my stronghold. Why have you rejected me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy? 3 Send forth your light and your truth, let them guide me; let them bring me to your holy mountain, to the place where you dwell. 4 Then will I go to the altar of God, to God, my joy and my delight. I will praise you with the harp, O God, my God. 5 Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.

NIV

Our scholars tell us that within many of the original Hebrew texts this psalm is actually the rest of the previous psalm, which is they are one psalm. Still this has a truth we can glean for our lives. Although David is pleading to be vindicated by God, we have already been vindicated. God has already judged us and he has judged us innocent, holy and blameless. He has already rescued us from a deceitful and wicked people. Sure we live among them, but we have been rescued from them. As if the deceitful and wicked people were a raging river, or flood headed downstream to a waterfall crashing against the rocks below and we were in a canoe flowing with them, unable to paddle against the flow. He has reached in with the lifesaver, Jesus, and snatched us up and out of that raging flow to destruction. We no longer have to worry about where we were headed for God not only snatched us out of that raging flow, but he put us within his stronghold. He is our strength, our fortified place. The raging flow of madness cannot harm us, we are within his fortified place. Our feet are on solid ground. Although David felt as God has rejected him, we do not have to feel that way because we have his promise to never leave us nor forsake us. Sure there may be times when it seems that is not the case, but we do not live by feelings, but by the word of God. He has set forth his light and truth to guide us. Jesus is the truth, the light and the way. Jesus guides us to the holy mountain of God. This may well be seen as the new city of Jerusalem, a holy mountain 1500 miles wide, 1500 miles long and just as high. A Holy mountain where God is the light, no sun will be needed. This is the place God dwells and we are lead there by Jesus. He is the only way to this holy mountain of God. There we will find eternal joy and delight, but we not have to wait until the day we step into eternity for we are already with God, he dwell within us. In some sense we are his temple, his holy mountain and we can live free from worry and distress. There is no cause for our soul to be downcast or disturbed because God is our Savior, we have been saved, we are safe and secure from all alarm. We have put our trust in God.