LORD’S DAY, JULY 15
Psalm 13:1-6
Psalm 42:11

This is the day which
the Lord hath made.

HOW LONG? HOW LONG?

Four times (in Psalm 13) cries out David to God in desperation when oppressed by his enemy! When you are confronted from every quarter in a hostile situation, look up and lift up your head, for your redemption draweth nigh. Let not a Christian say, “Die!”

David is the supreme leader of the Kingdom of Israel. In him lies every important decision. A leader of men is a lonely man. He may have many counsellors, but he must be the one “to press the button.” How awful it is to make the final decision! Especially when David is hard pressed everywhere he goes. Unless he has his Lord, the living and true God from whom he draws encouragement, from whom he obtains strength and wisdom, yea, even deliverance, he could never have ruled Israel forty years.

It is hard to pinpoint when David wrote this Psalm. But it fittingly expresses the emotions of God’s people in those ever-recurring trials which beset them. What is it that is affecting you today? Read Psalm 42:11.

The Apostle Paul gives us this assurance: “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loveth us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Rom 8:35-39).

Let us, like David, in moments of desperation call on God for salvation. And let us, upon deliverance, render due praise and thanksgiving to Him. When we praise the Lord, the devil is shamed!

THOUGHT: Trust in the Lord and don’t despair, He is a friend so true! No matter what your troubles are, Jesus will see you through!
PRAYER: Help me, Father, to cling to Thee even through calamities.