February 3, 2015 - Tuesday

Start Time: 6:29 AM

End Time: 7:12 AM

Title: For The Director Of Music, To The Tune Of “The Doe Of The Morning.”  A Psalm Of David

Scripture: Psalm 22:1 – 31

God’s Message / God’s Promise / God’s Commands:

→ In this chapter, David was clearly in distress.  He was in trouble and he spoke of his current suffering like a man scorned by everyone and despised by all.  He was surrounded by his enemy and was feeling helpless at that point when he wrote this psalm.  Despite of the heaviness of his troubles or the burdens he carried, David remained positive and in firm with his belief that God will deliver him.  He never faltered or waiver from that truth knowing in full certainty that God will save him in His ways even if it means saving him is death.  David knew God and he spoke of God being his God since he was brought out of the womb.  Wow!  Many of us, will remember the day we surrender our lives to the Lord and made Him our God but David recognized God as his God the moment he was out of his mother's belly even before he had any understanding of things.  Now that's belief is solid and strong!  God was not God only when we accepted Him to be the God of our lives.  He was God ever since of time and whether we accepted Him in our lives or not, that did not diminish or change His character and role!  I like how David said that it was God who made him trust in Him.  Now this is a man who completely recognized himself as powerless!  David did have a free will and he chose God but David knew that he chose God because God chose him or better yet, because God made him choose Him!  Wow!  Clearly, this is a man who knows that nothing even his choice is his own! Because God does everything and align everything, the circumstances, the situations, etc that we ourselves will choose Him!  So we can never say that it is our choice that God became God of our lives.  We can never get the credit because God did everything for us!  Amazing!

And so with this understanding, David never lost hope of God saving him because God did everything for David to trust Him in the very beginning. So whether the result was his death or his victory, David knew that it will be ultimate for his deliverance!  And so he will declare God's Name to his people and praise Him!  Revering Him for He listened to his cry for help.  All the people will then remember and turn back to God and will proclaim His righteousness, declaring it even to the yet unborn.  Hallelujah!

Prayer:

Lord Jesus, amazing Father and King!  You are truly magnificent and all knowing.  You are in control of things and powerful to turn everything in according to Your magnificent plans.  Lord help me to trust You the way David did.  To recognize that me trusting You is Your doing not even my own so it can never be credited to me.  I am truly a mere instrument for Your Glory and Praise.  Lord let me realized and apply this in my life that I may see my weaknesses and Your greatness at all times.  In Jesus' Name, Amen!