Psalm 57:2; 119:50
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I cry out to God Most High,
to God, who fulfills his purpose for me.
My comfort in my suffering is this:
Your promise preserves my life.
Who do you cry out to? Who do you turn to in the good times and the bad times?
The God Most High: The Supreme Ruler. The Name that emphasizes God’s sovereignty over all the earth.
The Name Most High is first used in Genesis 14.
Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High, and he blessed Abram, saying,
“Blessed be Abram by God Most High,
Creator of heaven and earth.
And blessed be God Most High,
who delivered your enemies into your hand.”
Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything.
The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people and keep the goods for yourself.”
But Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have raised my hand to the Lord, God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth, and have taken an oath
When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance,
when he divided all mankind,
he set up boundaries for the peoples
according to the number of the sons of Israel.
How awesome is the Lord Most High,
the great King over all the earth!
I will give thanks to the Lord because of his righteousness
and will sing praise to the name of the Lord Most High.
“ ‘The decision is announced by messengers, the holy ones declare the verdict, so that the living may know that the Most High is sovereign over the kingdoms of men and gives them to anyone he wishes and sets over them the lowliest of men.’
What am I doing when I acknowledge GOD MOST HIGH?
I am agreeing with Scripture
I am acknowledging the sovereignty of God
I am amplifying His Lordship in my life
What does He do when I do that?
He fulfills HIS purpose
The word FULFILLS means that we should see God’s hand on us in everything. We receive fulfillment in His counsel and we are told of His fulfillment in scripture.
Notice what He fulfills. He fulfills HIS purpose. Not mine, not what everybody else wants me to do, but His purpose. If I am agreeing with Scripture, if I am acknowledging the sovereignty of God, if I am amplifying His Lordship in my life, then I am wanting Him to fulfill His purpose and His purpose becomes my purpose.
The word purpose means to come to an end, to complete, to accomplish.
God’s design for us is that we come to the end, the the completion, to accomplish that which He has made us to be and do.
The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me;
your love, O Lord, endures forever—
do not abandon the works of your hands.
being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
I am reminded that God’s purpose in me is one of His many promises. It is good to remember the promises of God and how He gives them to us in His word.
I referred to another verse this week in the message on strength.
My comfort in my suffering is this:
Your promise preserves my life.
I think many of us have decided that 2020 is the year we want to forget. We seem to have had a time of suffering in one way or another. This verse ties the purpose back to the promise and the promise to the purpose.
Psalm 119:50 does not say if I suffer or when I suffer, it says “my comfort in my suffering is this” implying that suffering is going to be part of our lives. Psalm 119 is a Psalm that is about God’s word. It has 176 verses in it and is the longest chapter in the Bible. Psalm 119:50 is one of more than 60 verses in that Psalm that specifically speak of trials and suffering. It is a beautiful reminder that God’s word provides lasting comfort because we are going to suffer and have periods of tough times.
Warren Wiersbe wrote about Psalm 119 saying, “The Comforter, the Spirit of God, takes the Word of God and applies it to our hearts to comfort us.” Too often we ask God to remove that trial and the pain instead of recognizing that in the midst of it all, we have the promise of comfort and the comfort of purpose.
I have been reading a book that seems to help me understand this a bit better.
The book is called This Too Shall Last by K.J. Ramsey. It is about dealing with pain, of all kinds, and not just getting over it or through it but living in spite of it.
The promise is that Jesus went through all my suffering during His suffering so that my suffering is temporary. It is temporary because of the purpose God has for me.
The comfort we can find is when this verse says, “Your promise preserves my life.”
Several things: Who is the owner of the Promise?
What does the owner of the promise do?
Preserves means renews, sustains.
So if we had the opportunity to put these two together, it would read something like this and this is completely my paraphrase:
This life makes me suffer, but I can cry out to God Most High, to Him who is like no other. He has promised me that He has a purpose for my life and He preserves it so I can carry out that purpose.
How would you sum up these to verses?
