Psalm 63
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When…the worst has brought out David’s best
Then the king said to Zadok, “Carry the ark of God back into the city. If I find favor in the eyes of the Lord, he will bring me back and let me see both it and his dwelling place.
And all the land wept aloud as all the people passed by, and the king crossed the brook Kidron, and all the people passed on toward the wilderness.
Desire vv.1-4
v.1
david is deeply restless and unsatisfied without God…the unrecognized thirst experienced even by the unbeliever…jesus diagnosed this...
Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
david is in a parched and cheerless surrounding.... this has aroused a much deeper desire in him… it’s awakened a thirst for God and a seeking for God.
v.2 his situation hasn’t clouded his vision and memory, it actually clarifies it.
v.4 the inward feelings expressed outwardly… don’t look down on that, in you or others. It’s commanded...
It’s commanded...
So I will bless you as long as I live; in your name I will lift up my hands.
134:2 Lift up your hands to the holy place and bless the Lord!
134:2
Lift up your hands to the holy place and bless the Lord!
134:2 Lift up your hands to the holy place and bless the Lord!
I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling;
There are certain things we long and desire for. That refresh us. God is better for this.
Delight v.5-8
v.5-8
flesh fainting, now it’s soul hungering and being satified…metaphor of food.
setting different....watches of the night.... stresses the slow progress of hours
wings
The two halves of verse 8 make one of the most vivid statements of the two facets of perseverance. The word clings is familiar to us elsewhere in the Old Testament as ‘cleaves’ (e.g. , in marital devotion; , in loyalty to Yahweh); cf. for an outstanding example of it. In the present verse it is strenuous: lit. ‘clings after thee’, as if in hot pursuit. The old translation remains the best: ‘my soul followeth hard after thee.’ But it is God himself who makes this possible, and the firmness of his upholding grasp is implied in the allusion to the right hand, the stronger of the two
fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith— that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Do you think of God like this?
Philippians 3:8-14
Defense vv.9-11
9-11
david has been so absorbed with what God is to him, that only now at the end come the threat of his enemies. The bigger you God, the more longing, the smaller your problems. but they are still real. but there is faith in the steadfast love and justice of God.
Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed. He will render to each one according to his works:
David is sure in his calling and the promise that God gave because of it.