Psalm
25:1–3 (ESV)
1To
you, O Lord, I lift up my soul.
2O
my God, in you I trust; let me not be put to shame; let not my enemies exult
over me.
3Indeed,
none who wait for you shall be put to shame; they shall be ashamed who are
wantonly treacherous.
Psalm 25 shows us David in
the midst of distress and then what he was doing to keep that distress from
becoming despair.
- David avoids having his distress become despair by putting
his confidence in the Lord, Being committed to the Lord, By choosing to have
integrity by confessing sin, and he chose to know the fear of the Lord.
In verse one David says, “To You O Lord I lift my soul” vs.
1 He is showing direct confidence and
reliance on God. He continues, “ O my
God, I trust in You.” This word trust
is defined as “ to rely on , put confidence in , to believe in a person or object
to the point of reliance upon.”[1]
David then says, “Let me not be ashamed”
He was not concerned with simply David’s shame but shame for trusting in the Lord – God’s
name was at stake. If God did not rescue
him His Name would not receive glory.
In verse five David is
putting his life on the line with God as he says, “You are the God of my
salvation” vs. 5 He was trusting God
for salvation.
“My eyes are ever toward
the Lord”, was David’s statement in verse 15.
He would not let them wander he was to anything else it was the Lord
that had his confidence.
This theme is continued in
verse 20 where he says, “Keep My Soul and Deliver me for … I trust in you.” And in verse 21 where he states, “I Wait for
You.”
I have met and listened to
many people who will not put their confidence in the Lord.. they continue to
speak of their problem looking to hear the answers they want to hear. If they look long enough they will find the
people to say what they want to hear and thereby miss the truth of God’s Word and
miss having confidence in the Lord.
I hope today that as you face
distress that you will place your confidence in the Lord.
The video version of this is available at www.youtube.com/churchoflittleton .
[1] James Swanson, Dictionary of Biblical Languages With Semantic Domains : Hebrew (Old
Testament), electronic ed. (Oak Harbor: Logos Research Systems, Inc.,
1997).
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