Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have given me relief when I was in distress. Be gracious to me and hear my prayer! Psalm 4:1 - As we study the psalms, what we see play out in this verse will be a repeated practice for David. We see David once again in a time of great need. Maybe he was being chased by Saul, maybe he was fighting the philistines; we don’t know what trouble David was in but it’s clear his cries are passionate to the Lord. And the practice we will see repeated in the psalms is David remembering past times when God took care of him in his troubles as reassurance to him that God would be merciful again to him. God took care of him each other time he cried out for help, so he was confident the Lord would come through in this new time of need. Let this practice of David become practice for us. When we go through the inevitable difficulties of life, let us look back on the many times the Lord has come through for us in our past. For if the Lord had been faithful to us then, He’ll be faithful to us again for He is a forever faithful God. As we look through scripture we see story after story of God’s faithful support and rescue of His people when they turned faithfully to Him. Let us see those stories and see the stories of past rescue in our life as the evidence we need that God mercy will remain present even in today’s trial. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 2959
Question To Ponder: Why might we forget past times of God’s help when the struggles of life arise?
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