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March 2, 2012
By John Barnett
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As we open to Psalm 40, David feels life’s become like a horrible pit.
Probably the closest public event that would mirror David’s life is what the quake-struck residents of Haiti and Chile have felt, going through in the ten plus weeks since the 7.0 quake hit Haiti on 1/12/10 and less than a month ago, the much larger 8.8 quake hit in Chile 2/27/10.
Since these twin events :
• Millions of lives were disrupted.
• Over 200,000 have died.
• Nearly 100,000 are still homeless.
• Tens of thousands got out of touch with friends and family.
• Multiplied thousands are jobless, and have become refugees.
• And all of them are unsure about the future.
Events like those we watched these past two months, are unforgettably imprinted upon our memories.
The fear, pain, hopelessness we saw reflected from the crowds wandering around dazed by the devastation in the aftermath of those quakes—is a collective picture of what both David, and many others feel at times in life.
Life after a huge disaster can aptly be described as living in the pits.
What we saw hundreds of thousands of people facing together, is what David faced alone for months.
That is a summary of:
*David’s Life in The Pits*
Remember where we are in God's Word—we are searching the Scriptures and finding the testimonies of David from key events in his life, that God has given to us as inspired Psalms.
Where is David when he wrote the 40th Psalm?
David had just gone through an emotional quake that is off the scale.
He was still feeling aftershocks, and in Psalm 40 he was remembering life at the bottom, life in the pits.
This is what David was feeling as he writes these words:
• David had lost everything.
• David was homeless.
• David was out of touch with his family and friends and did not know who survived and who hadn’t.
• David had no sure supply or food or water.
• David had to find an escape route to flee the dangers he faced.
• David’s life and emotions were flooded by a hurricane of troubles.
But David had a choice—sink into despair or flee to the Lord as his refuge.
That is the same choice each of us this morning have each day of our lives.
*Sink or Find Refuge*
David chose to flee to God for refuge; and wrote down in Psalm 40 the pathway out for others who find themselves hitting the bottom in life.
Please listen to God’s flawless record of David’s ravaged life in Psalm 40:
Psalm 40
To the Chief Musician.
A Psalm of David.
1 I waited patiently for the LORD;
And He inclined to me,
And heard my cry.
2 He also brought me up out of a horrible pit,
Out of the miry clay,
And set my feet upon a rock,
And established my steps.
3 He has put a new song in my mouth—
Praise to our God;
Many will see it and fear,
And will trust in the LORD.
4 Blessed is that man who makes the LORD his trust,
And does not respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
5 Many, O LORD my God, are Your wonderful works
Which You have done;
And Your thoughts toward us
Cannot be recounted to You in order;
If I would declare and speak of them,
They are more than can be numbered.
6 Sacrifice and offering You did not desire;
My ears You have opened.
Burnt offering and sin offering You did not require.
7 Then I said, “Behold, I come;
In the scroll of the book it is written of me.
8 I delight to do Your will, O my God,
And Your law is within my heart.”
9 I have proclaimed the good news of righteousness
In the great assembly;
Indeed, I do not restrain my lips,
O LORD, You Yourself know.
10 I have not hidden Your righteousness within my heart;
I have declared Your faithfulness and Your salvation;
I have not concealed Your lovingkindness and Your truth
From the great assembly.
11 Do not withhold Your tender mercies from me, O LORD;
Let Your lovingkindness and Your truth continually preserve me.
12 For innumerable evils have surrounded me;
My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up;
They are more than the hairs of my head;
Therefore my heart fails me.
13 Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me;
O LORD, make haste to help me!
14 Let them be ashamed and brought to mutual confusion
Who seek to destroy my life;
Let them be driven backward and brought to dishonor
Who wish me evil.
15 Let them be confounded because of their shame,
Who say to me, “Aha, aha!”
16 Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You;
Let such as love Your salvation say continually,
“The LORD be magnified!”
17 But I am poor and needy;
Yet the LORD thinks upon me.
You are my help and my deliverer;
Do not delay, O my God.
Believers in Christ aren’t prevented from hard times and bottoming out in life—they just always have a way out.
In fact, most of God’s greatest servants have spent a great deal of time in what we could call the pits of life.
*Peace and Joys that Never Run Out*
What can God do with our hard times, lonely times, dark times and fearful times?
He can use them if we give ourselves to Him.
In fact, we can even begin to rejoice in the Goodness of God even in the darkest of circumstances.
That is what David does in Psalm 40 and that is what Paul tells us by the power of the Holy Spirit—we all can do in every circumstance we find ourselves in through all of life.
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 /"Rejoice always, 17 pray without ceasing, 18 in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
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