REVERBERATIONS FROM DAVID’S PSALMS
Psalm 9 - “I will praise you, O Lord, with ALL MY
HEART; I will tell of all your wonders.
I will be glad and rejoice in you; I will sing praise to your name, O
Most High.”
ALL IN
With David,
nothing is held back…”no holds barred…” my dad used to say when he meant doing
something with all you’ve got, with all your strength. Hmmm… sounds like a certain commandment!
In Psalm 9 he
talks about the Lord reigning forever and how He judges with righteousness and
governs with justice. David loves to
write about God’s greatness and his care for us, his creation, so finally he
just says, “Sing praises to the Lord enthroned in Zion, proclaim among the
nations what He has done” (v. 11). I
have spent my life doing just that… proclaiming God’s salvation among the
nations with music. David would have
been a great Continental.
He normally
spends a little time asking the Lord to rescue him from his many enemies, but
this time he is just praising the Lord because his enemies are on the run. It’s a good idea for us to praise the Lord,
too, when He takes away the stresses and pressures we all seem to live under.
Because the
Lord will judge “the nations that forget God” (v.17), he follows that news up
with “…but the needy and the hopes of the afflicted will not always be
forgotten.” (v.18) So when nations are being judged and are embattled and at
war, even the hopes of the displaced people are still alive.
The big
promise we can hang on to then is this: “Those who know Your Name will trust in
You, for You Lord, have NEVER Forsaken
those who seek you.” (v.10)
TAKE A LITTLE TIME TO SEEK THE
LORD…TODAY
(Sing a little praise,
too!)
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