Salvation belongs to the Lord (Psalm 3) 180108
Reading through Scripture slowly is a form of enjoyment. It brings not only the knowledge about God, it also brings to my remembers of God’s goodness and faithfulness. Reading the Psalms slowly gives rise to another form of enjoyment. It brings comfort for the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable one. It brings excitement to boredom and stills those who are too busy to dwell in the sweet words of Lord. It gives assurance and hope. It also gives judgment and reality. It is a blessing to read the Psalms slowly and meditatively.
Psalms three tells me that I can find assurance in the midst of my adversaries (v1). The Lord will take care of them. Sometimes, I really feel like this Psalmist, who is commonly known as David, that people around me are saying to me that there is no deliverance for me and there is no hope for me and I am doomed (v2). The fear of hopelessness and defeat is not so much about the hopelessness and defeat. It is about the sense of disappointment and doubts about God. When I was journeying through my wilderness recently, I keep asking: where is God?
Theologically, I know God is with me everywhere and all the times. But deep in my soul, I was so disoriented in my own darkness whereby I doubt God’s goodness and faithfulness. I am thankful that I can cry out to Him (v4), not within my heart as most guys do, I literally cried. I have not been so teary before. I can easily cry whenever I have to share of what I have been going through. It was not only an emotional reaction or simply a physical phenomenon either. It was something more that spiritual too. It was something very complicated that was happening within my soul and my mind and my will and even my body which causes me to be like that.
Many times, really many times, I want to give up and simply throw in the towel. But the Lord sustains me (v5). I don’t know how He does that, but He sustains me. The Lord will save me (v7)! He will surely deliver me! He is in the process of delivering me out of my wilderness. I am now learning to recover and to renew my strength to walk with the Lord. I do not know how long this will take me, but I know the Lord is with me as I walk, and even if I stop and lay down and rest.
Salvation belongs to the Lord (v8). This is not a slogan. This is not a statement of faith for us to believe in. This in not even a theological thesis to be debated and discussed. This is a reality. Salvation belongs to the Lord, no one else. Salvation belongs to the Lord, the Lord who is good and faithful to deliver and sustain. Salvation belongs to the Lord, period!
Salvation belongs to the Lord; His blessing will be upon His people (v8)! I am His people, are you? May the blessing be upon you too.
HHS…
Abel…
