Thank You Lord

 DEVOTION

2^ND SAMUEL

THANK YOU LORD

 

2 Sam 22:17-20

17 "He reached down from on high and took hold of me; he drew me out of deep waters. 18 He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from my foes, who were too strong for me. 19 They confronted me in the day of my disaster, but the LORD was my support. 20 He brought me out into a spacious place; he rescued me because he delighted in me.

NIV

The same God whom fire came forth from his nostrils, who thundered from heaven and is accompanied by bolts of lightning that blaze forward, who causes the earth to tremble, reached down from on high and took hold of me. I know I usually speak in the third person, so I should say he took hold of us, but I am moved this morning as I awoke in my bed with singing in my spirit, “This is holy ground”. I cannot help but feel  as though the Lord reached down and took hold of me. Yet I know that he has taken hold of us all. He has drawn us out of the deep waters, where we were drowning because of the lack of his presence, and we were deep in the throes of sin. Again, it is not that we did anything against our list we have made. However, we can still be drowning because of despair, or doubt because of the pain that will not go away, or the illness that plagues us, or even when we get caught up in spiritual pride, or thinking more highly of ourselves than we should. There are so many ways that we could be in deep waters, but you have rescued us from all those powerful enemies that fight against us. Some of our foes, those temptations are too strong for us, we cannot fight them alone, however we know the Lord is there to rescue us, in fact, he already has, because of Jesus, we have been rescued, and we no longer are drowning in those deep waters, for he took all our sins upon himself, saving us from the deep, taking hold of us, supporting us, and he has brought us out into a spacious place, he very presence. Where he is is holy ground, a spacious place of glorious light, where we glory in his wonderful grace, a place where he delights in us. When we consider that we stand in a place, when we live in a place of his delight, how could we be blessed any more? Is there anything more precious in all the world than to be the delight of the Lord? Oh, Sovereign Lord, who am I that you should have taken me this far? We can hear the Lord say, “You are my delight, and I have taken hold of you and I have raised you up and will support you, defend you, and I have brought you out into this spacious place, rejoice my child, I love you”. All I can say is “I worship you, oh Lord, I thank you”.