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April 22
Our Bible reading today is in Ps. 6,8-10,14,16,19,21...all but Psalm 10 seem to be authored by David.
Words in these songs identify contrasting moods in David’s life. Such as...Languishing sickness and strength in the Lord...troubled soul and gladness in the Lord...wearied in resolve and enduring in the Lord...enemies in body soul and spirit versus the majesty and glory of the eternal Lord.
Weeping in the night and singing unto the Lord. Lost in living and on the path of life in the Lord. Over and over in these songs of David,
written at different times and in different seasons of life, the one Word that is repeated most often is LORD.
Translated and spoken by the Hebrew people: “Adonai”...it’s close, but not the actual name. God’s people thought it was too sacred and too holy to be spoken, so they used “Adonai” in their prayers, songs, conversations, and sermons...when addressing or speaking of God...“Lord”...over all things in the heavens and on the earth...all things in nature...all things human...all things spiritual...all things in life and death...all things...period...Adonai...Jesus is Lord!
No wonder David began one song with “How “Majestic” is Your Name! O, Lord.”...How “Kingly” is Your Name O Lord...How “Sovereign” is Your Name O Lord!
Let’s look at one mood of David as expressed before the Lord in Ps 6.
“O Lord...(my translation: “all-knowing “Lord” who knows my beginning and my end and everything in between...” all-powerful Lord” who is wise to decide and powerful to carry out those decrees... “everywhere present Lord”...from eternity past to eternity future “You who sees and directs my path.
“O Lord, rebuke me not in your anger, nor discipline me in your wrath. Be gracious to me O Lord...I am languishing...my body is troubled...my soul is greatly troubled...”
David is obviously under conviction for his sinning. Wow...the man after God’s own heart troubled with sinning? There is hope for us church.
His soul is greatly troubled, vexed, weighed down with sorrow and remorse. He weeps until his bedding is drenched with tears...he moans over his sense of guilt before his Lord. Charles Spurgeon prayed that God would break his heart over that which drew the blood of Christ on the cross.
Did you notice how David prayed...”Rebuke me O Lord...but not in your anger...discipline me, but not in Your wrath...” David was a child of the promise and he sinned. All of us who are in the Lord by grace and faith sin. But God’s Spirit won't let us get away with a thing.
What strikes me to the core is David’s understanding of God’s way of disciplining his kids physically and spiritually to remove them from the miry pits of spiritual complacency and revive them to the spiritual high places of God Himself.
Even David’s body was affected by his confession of sin and his pleading for God’s grace to right his course for the glory of God.
Wow...David knew that his trouble in his bones was grace from God that lead him to spiritual renewal.
Reminds me of the first great awakening that swept Great Britain and their Thirteen Colonies in the 1730s-1740s.
A series of evangelical revival meetings turned into a spiritual movement of God that was documented by unusual “repentance of sin” and “new dedication” to Christ for His work in the church and His mission beyond...for the sake of the gospel.
George Whitfield of England and Jonathan Edwards and David Brainard of the colonies were major contributors to this spiritual movement.
The Holy Spirit “induced sobs of conviction”, we are told, were so intense in these meetings, that they turned into “guttural” sounds of “moaning” and beseeching of God for forgiveness of sin and the cleansing of all unrighteousness.
This revival of “repentance” changed the course of the American church for 200 years.
May the Lord do it again.
Have a great day
