Monday April 01
The LORD Will Meet All Our Needs
Psalm 142:1-7
A Contemplation of David. A Prayer when he was in the cave.
1 I cry out to the LORD with my voice; With my voice to the LORD I make my supplication.
2 I pour out my complaint before Him; I declare before Him my trouble.
3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, Then You knew my path. In the way in which I walk They have secretly set a snare for me.
4 Look on my right hand and see, For there is no one who acknowledges me; Refuge has failed me; No one cares for my soul.
5 I cried out to You, O LORD: I said, "You are my refuge, My portion in the land of the living.
6 Attend to my cry, For I am brought very low; Deliver me from my persecutors, For they are stronger than I.
7 Bring my soul out of prison, That I may praise Your name; The righteous shall surround me, For You shall deal bountifully with me."
Yesterday on Easter Sunday, we celebrated the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. But we need to remember every Sunday is resurrection day and the truth is every day is resurrection day for the believer. Because Jesus resurrected victoriously over death, hell, sin, and the devil, we can also experience His resurrection life every day.
Romans 6:4-8 teaches us this great truth: “Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. For he who has died has been freed from sin. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him”.
Today, we want to pick up where we left off before Passion Week in Psalm 142. From the title we know that David wrote this psalm when he was in a cave and he wrote it as a maschil or a “contemplation”, which means a psalm of instruction. He wants us to learn something from his own experience when he was in a dark cave of discouragement and desperation.
David was probably in his early twenties when he wrote this psalm. In his late teens he had become a national hero by killing Goliath and had gain a place of honor in King Saul’s court, and a position of authority as a commander in his army. But over night that all changed when Saul grew jealous of him and determined to kill him. In a low point David seems to lose his faith, and his head, as he seeks protection from the Philistines, their hated enemy. He quickly found out this was a mistake and then flees to this cave at Adullam. He no doubt is disappointed in himself, knowing that others would have been aware of his failure to trust the LORD.
But David turns his cave of gloom and despair into a closet of prayer, a place of solitude and devotion. The disciples of Jesus in Luke 11 asked Jesus to teach them to pray and He told them to first enter in the closet and shut the door. David was in a place where he could shut out the sounds and distractions of the world that was crashing in all around him and where he could concentrate on the LORD. And that is what he did and we should so the same!
In verses 1-2, David was confident that the LORD would hear his voice and he could make his supplication and share his complaint before Him. He could declare to the LORD all his troubles. And so can we!!!! In verses 3-4, David was assured that the LORD knew his circumstances despite his feelings that no one else cared about him. Then in verses 5-7, David believed and expressed his faith that the LORD would bring his soul out of the prison of failure and despair, and he would praise His name! He looked ahead by faith to the day that the “righteous would surround him” because the “LORD would deal bountifully with him”.
No matter the circumstances around us or the feelings within us, we have the promise that God cares for us (1 Peter 5:7). We can be confident that He is working all things together for His glory and our good (Rom. 8:28). We can be assured that the LORD will meet all our needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:19).
God bless!
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