Psalm – Psalm 30-32
It is a mixed bag of Psalms today.
Bible Passage: Psalm 30-32
Psalm 30 seems to coincide with David’s efforts to bring the ark of covenant to Jerusalem (2 Sam 6). When we read 2 Samuel, you will learn that the event that started with mourning was soon turned to dancing and rejoicing.
Psalm 31 is a psalm of hope as we have the assurance that even in our darkest hours – even when we are paying for the consequences of our sin – God is there for us – as long as we turn to Him. Don’t run away from God – run to Him.
And Psalm 32 sings about the joy that confession of our sins to God brings – forgiveness. God’s forgiveness gives us a cleansing feeling – as it we can put aside our failures now and make a clean fresh start with God.
David discovered something very interesting in relation to his unconfessed sins.
Read Psalm 32:3-5 again.
David discovered a loss of vitality – like one of the signs of old age – and this was because of his unconfessed sins and the only way to deal with it was to confess to God and repent.
Life is about choices – obeying God voluntarily or choosing to be stubborn and resist His ways (very much the horse or mule that has no understanding and must be brought under harness and control – 32:8-9).
What is your choice today?
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PS
Sometimes troubles and life itself overwhelm us and we may, like David, say in our haste that:
“i m cut off before Your eyes” (31:22)
Like David, may we also declare to our joy that:
“Nevertheless You heard the supplications when i cried out to You.”
Take courage from David’s own testimony:
Be of good courage,
And He shall strengthen yor heart,
All you who hope in the LORD.(31:24)
Then, surely then, we shall hear God saying to us:
I will instruct u and teach u in the way you should go;
I will guide u with My eye.(32:8)