Scripture Read: Psalm 53, 54 July 22, 2011 My Helper
Key Verse: Psalm 54:4
“Behold, God is my helper: the Lord is the upholder of my life.”
Observation:
Throughout the Psalms, you constantly see that the Lord is always asked to save David or the writer from his enemies. The first three verses of the Psalm echo that thought. He writes pleas to God to save him from his enemies, stating that the people that seek to kill him don’t have the Lord in their hearts. But, the next part is written with a tone of hope. He knows that he has God in his corner, and he writes that God is his helper. Those who are against him, they will fail. If our God is for us, then who could ever stop us. David finally finds the guts to approach God about what is perhaps the worst thing he has ever done. David cries out to his God from the deepest place of pain, guilt, and regret that one can have. We see a window into the heart of David and his desire to never lose the ability to be in the presence of God or even worse, lose the Holy Spirit. He desperately pleas with God to restore his joy of salvation at it is lost and covered over with sin. When it all comes down to it, David becomes so broken that his unrighteousness is revealed. His brokenness causes Him to cry out for God and ask for restoration.
Application:
There are many times where I feel like the whole weight of the world is against me, and sometimes I give in not knowing one simple thing. God is in my corner. Because he is in my corner, do I walk around with the authority that God has given me with Him being in my corner? Another verse that sticks out is verse 6, where it says that he will give thanks to the Lord for all that he has done. Even if I walk with the authority I have to know that God is giving me that strength, and to give Him thanks wherever I go. That’s exactly what I have to be doing, because if our God is for us, then who could ever stop us. The enemy has already lost, so stop acting like he’s won.
Prayer:
Lord, help me to walk in Your ways constantly. I know that the enemy will do whatever he can against me, but I know that I have You in my corner. Lord, help me to walk in the authority of Your power, and let me not forget to continually give You the glory, for You make all things possible.
By Tim 217staff team
Psalm 53 shows me something that I observe all around me, but more humbling I can see in myself. People when left to their on devices are bent toward evil, of which I am chief. No one has ever had to teach me to do wrong. “No” must have been one of my parents favorite words (if not favorite most necesary). Naturally I am selfish, easily angered when frustrated or things don’t go my way, full of pride, the list goes on. I know this about myself yet my pride would have me believe that I am good of my self. By comparison I am doing better than the next guy. But as long as my world spins around me, I am on the throne, its all about me, I have fallen away. I am corrupted. I do not do good. My life is not nor was it ever meant to be about me, but to glorify and seek after God. But in my own power I can not seek after God or do any true unpolluted good. On my own I am in a bad place. I am drowning in my sin in need of a Savior. Praise be Gos that the salvation of Israel that comes out of Zion reaches out to me. God’s ever pursuing grace broke through my selfishness as a youth and it has been new every morning ever since. His grace alone gives me the ability to seek after him. Humbled am I.