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In verse 7 David asks if the Lord will cast off forever? Can God cast us off?
It cannot happen because God's name is Jehovah-Raah--the LORD MY SHEPHERD--always
seeking His sheep to be their total care giver. The Good Shepherd never casts
off a lost sheep; rather, He seeks and seeks that lost sheep until He finds
it; even though we may 'feel' that God has cast us off--forgotten us or doesn't
care to find us. Because the LORD is my Shepherd, I shall not want--I shall
not lack the expert care and management of my Master.
In verse 2, David said his "sore ran in the night." God stopped me
there to consider the word "sore." I thought, sore is a wound, cut,
abrasion. I reached for my Strong's Concordance, found the meaning of the word
sore....and had to stop and consider much in my life. The word sore means strength;
power.
This passage of scripture took on a whole new meaning for me as I prepared this
lesson. David refused to let his soul be comforted so his strength oozed out
of him all night....all through his valley of depression...his night. Verse
3 tells us of his misery: he was troubled, he complained, and his spirit was
overwhelmed within him. Why? Because HE REFUSED to let God heal his heart. It
was David's choice, for God is ALWAYS waiting and willing to heal us from ALL
that troubles us. Yesterday we read and understood that He not only saves us
to salvation but He rescues, delivers, avenges, liberates, and gives us victory
OUT OF ALL OUR TROUBLES. It is, however, our choice, as it was David's choice,
whether we allow God to do so or not.
In verse 9, David asks a question that I am afraid all of us have thought at
one time or another: Psa 77:9 Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in
anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah. We are human with finite minds/limited
minds, and we are prone to let doubt control us when we are hurting or when
we have stepped one half of a step away from God and are not Spirit-led.
David said that he refused to be comforted; so his strength and power oozed
out of him all night. In the New Testament, Jesus asks us a question, "Wilt
thou be healed?" If you are weak today of body, mind, soul, or spirit,
I pray you will consider your part in living in the goodness of God. It is a
choice for us...just like it was for David.
God is good--He is perfect and cannot sin. God is always good to us because
He loves us with a perfect and everlasting love. However, we are prone to doubt
because we are human.
Now let's look at the remedy for our conscious, or unconscious, proclamation
that the words "God" and "bad" sometimes go together.
Psalm 77: 10-14
Psa 77:10 And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of
the right hand of the most High.
Psa 77:11 I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember thy
wonders of old.
Psa 77:12 I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.
Psa 77:13 Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our
God?
Psa 77:14 Thou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength
among the people.
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