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Restoration
A few years ago, an angry man rushed through the Rijks Museum in Amsterdam until he reached Rembrandt's famous painting "Nightwatch."
Then he took out a knife and slashed it repeatedly before he could be stopped.
A short time later, a distraught, hostile man slipped into St.
Peter's Cathedral in Rome with a hammer and began to smash Michelangelo's beautiful sculpture The Pieta.
Two cherished works of art were severely damaged.
But what did officials do?
Throw them out and forget about them?
Absolutely not!
Using the best experts, who worked with the utmost care and precision, they made every effort to restore the treasures.
By His sovereign grace, God can bring good out of our failures, and even out of our sins.
J. Stuart Holden tells of an old Scottish mansion close to where he had his little summer home.
The walls of one room were filled with sketches made by distinguished artists.
The practice began after a pitcher of soda water was accidentally spilled on a freshly decorated wall and left an unsightly stain.
At the time, a noted artist, Lord Landseer, was a guest in the house.
One day when the family went out to the moors, he stayed behind.
With a few masterful strokes of a piece of charcoal, that ugly spot became the outline of a beautiful waterfall, bordered by trees and wildlife.
He turned that disfigured wall into one of his most successful depictions of Highland life.
(Swindoll, The Quest For Character, Multnomah, p. 49.)
That is what we see in this Psalm today.
We see that God can and will restore us even when we fail and become pride-filled.
We may be in an area in life where we think we are too far gone.
We may be in an area where we believe that God will not hear us.
We may think we are too far gone.
I tell you this Psalm will dis-spell that idea.
We are not too far gone nor can we be too far for God to reach in and restore us, IF we will just call to Him to do so.
We see this in this Psalm.
David called out to God-God answered.
David boasted of HIS prosperity and God punished.
David called out again, God answered with restoration.
Just as the stories told at the beginning said, God can take the broken and the stained and make them beautiful and good.
Let us look at Psalm 30
The first thing we see in this text is...
No Pit is Too Deep for God (vv.
1-5)
Corrie Ten Boom has said, “There is no pit so deep, that God's love is not deeper still.”
That is an amazing quote that fits what this Psalm says.
David was down.
He was in despair and under severe struggles.
He had people trying to rejoice over his fall and struggles.
They were trying to overthrow him but he cried out to God.
He was in that pit.
He was feeling that he was in the grave.
He felt rejected and destroyed.
He was in dire straits and it was not looking good.
Yet, he did not seek anything but the Lord.
He did not try and fix the situation, but cried out to the Lord.
He knew the pit was deep but God’s love is deeper still.
He knew that even if this was a punishment from the Lord for him failing to do what he should do, it was only brief and the Lord would restore him and his joy would return.
We see that the Lord is merciful and that His favor and goodwill towards you will last a lifetime.
What we see in all this is that David knew that in all his victories and in all his failings that it is only the Lord who delivers and restores us.
Do you know this?
Do you see this in your life?
Do you want this in your life?
I pray that I do but I also see that I want to take charge of my bad situations and fix them myself.
I want to remove the issue rather than waiting on the Lord and trusting that today may be bad but tomorrow–however far that tomorrow may be, will bring joy when I trust in the Lord to be the solution.
When I try and solve the problem I am much like this computer.
"A home-accident survey showed that 90 percent of accidents on staircases involved either the top or the bottom stair.
This information was fed back into the computer to analyze how accidents could be reduced.
The computer's answer: 'Remove the top and bottom stairs.'"
This solution makes the problem worse.
That is what happens when we try and fix situations without the Lord.
When we try and solve it we fall prey to our pride and arrogance.
And we find, “It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.”
We may think we know the problem we are facing but do we really know it?
I venture to say no we do not.
But God does and when we call out to Him we will have the one who knows exactly what is going on and exactly how to fix it.
Also when we do this we will avoid the next problem that arises from our “SOLUTIONS.”
This being...
Foolish Boasting Brings Despair (vv.
6-10)
David said here in his prosperity he would not be moved.
He even appeals to the Lord for placing him there.
Yet we see him saying God hid His face from him.
I love how the NLT renders this section it says, Ps. 30:6-7
This is how we are when we solve a problem and feel like we are really something.
We will say “Look at me, look what I did.
I fixed that and now nothing can stop me.”
That is until what we thought we fixed crumbles and we are there looking like a fool.
We will be like this actress
While she was enjoying a transatlantic ocean trip, Billie Burke, the famous actress, noticed that a gentleman at the next table was suffering from a bad cold.
"Are you uncomfortable?" she asked sympathetically.
The man nodded.
"I'll tell you just what to do for it," she offered.
"Go back to your stateroom and drink lots of orange juice.
Take two aspirins.
Cover yourself with all the blankets you can find.
Sweat the cold out.
I know just what I'm talking about.
I'm Billie Burke from Hollywood."
The man smiled warmly and introduced himself in return.
"Thanks," he said, "I'm Dr. Mayo from the Mayo clinic."
She spoke authoritatively and acted authoritative.
Yet, she had no authority or expertise.
She embarrassed herself before this great doctor.
This is exactly what we do when we boast of our goods and works.
We do not have a clue even though we may think we do.
David realized his mistake and cried out to God for His mercy and help.
He realized that he had been foolish and that God is the one who places us and removes us when He knows it best.
He makes a strong and ardent plea to God.
“He prays by staking his whole existence as a faithful believer on his prayer.
Shall his life come to an end at the very moment when he has just begun to comprehend that he should have given thanks to God, to whose grace he owes that life.”
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