Psalm 108-110 A Cry To God

David, speaking to God, said, “God, my heart is steady.  I will sing and praise You with all my being …. I will praise You among the nations … Your great love reaches to the skies.  Let Your glory be over all the earth … Help us fight the enemy.  Human help is useless, but we can win with God’s help.  He will defeat our enemies.”

With that outlook, it’s hard to imagine anything going wrong, but life happens.  In fact, in the very next psalm (109), David is praying fiercely for God to answer him, because his enemies are running him down with the people.

My commentary said most people are surprised that David would pray like this about his enemies, but we weren’t there to understand his situation.  David still wanted God to be glorified as the result.

Psalm 110 is the psalm Jesus used to prove His divinity to the Pharisees, those they didn’t accept it, and just imagining David being given this peek into the heavenly throne room is stunning.  Who knows whether David understood fully what he’d been tasked to write this side of heaven? 

Father, I thank You for Your truth, and Your mercy when I don’t live up to that truth.  I thank You for calling me out when I sin and for making me miserable until I cry out to You in repentance.  I don’t know what I’d do without Your forgiveness and Your provision for removing my sin – not just covering it – through Your Son’s death on the cross.  My sins never surprise You, because You are the all-knowing God, so trying to hide them from You is ridiculous.  I’m thankful that, at the moment I accepted Christ’s death for me on that cross, You forgave not only my sins up to that point, but also the sins You knew in advance that I would and will commit for the remainder of this life.  Still, I will need to confess them to You and agree with You that they are sins.

What a God!  What a Savior!

Your Brother In Christ,

Gary Ford