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Prayer
We’ve heard these numbers before...
Joseph waited 13 years...
Abraham waited 25 years...
Moses waited 40 years...
All of these men of God - USED by God…and yet - USED by God in HIS timing...
On His time-table...
**You ever have a situation where you needed to tell someone something very urgent, and you needed them to respond to you right away...
and instead…you get....nothin
No reply!?
And you just - Wait!
We’ve all been in those situations…and we know that AS THE WAITING goes on and on...
your FRUSTRATION - RISES!
And for some of us - We’ve probably felt like - at one point or another - that we’ve come to the end of our ROPE!
That we have nothing else to GIVE!
And so in case we might think that those in Scripture didn’t have to deal with these sorts of things...
We come to Psalm 13...
Does anyone feel like they could have written this Psalm?
We connect with this Psalm because we’ve been there before!
And we know that someday, our kids will be there too...
Our friends and co-workers might be there now
This Psalm will hopefully not only help us but also encourage us to help others who are dealing with the same things we’ve dealt with…or worse...
SLIDE:
God makes us wait in life so that we might feel the weight of life, in order that we might press into the Lord.
In other words...
As Christians…your WAITING in life - is working FOR you
We see here that David - is waiting…and he’s at the end of his rope...
If you remember last week, we talked about that time in David’s life, when he defeated Goliath...
…And over time, he gained popularity among the people...
It got to the point where we see this -
How did this make Saul feel?
From there…Saul tries to kill David many times...
So from the time David was anointed King....
…to the time he actually began to RULE…it was about 15 years...
Now - for us - that’s a long time!
So David is sitting in GOD’S WAITING ROOM - if you will - and he writes...
And it’s in the very EXISTENCE of this verse, that we see David’s WAITING is working FOR him…not against him.
How so?
Everyone WAITS in life - for something - at some point … NO?
But who is David writing to?
His WAITING has brought him to a place where he is REACHING out to GOD!
His WAITING has DRAWN him closer to God - seeking GOD!
NOW - is that the case for everyone?
Has that ALWAYS been the case for you?
Any time you’ve had to WAIT for something....has that time period DRAWN you closer to God?
Have those times caused you to SEEK after God…?
OR - have those times caused you to become EMBITTERED towards God!??
God doesn’t MIND when we come to Him SEEKING ANSWERS...
He DELIGHTS in TAKING OUR NEEDS...
And for DAVID here - his WAITING has brought him to the THROWN of Grace...
For David and for us - it’s those times in life when it seems there is an APPARENT DEFEAT...
that it’s IN THOSE TIMES when we have to EXAMINE what our next move is...
You remember last week what Psalm 4 said?
Here David says - God is ON MY SIDE!
David KNOWS that God is FOR HIM...
*What happens when you’re on the playground, and you get first pick?
*What comes with getting first pick in the DRAFT?
*What happens when EVERYONE you know tells you that you HAVE to go to this restaurant because the food is SOOOO good?
With all of these situations - comes EXPECTATIONS!
Now David KNOWS that God is on HIS SIDE…David KNOWS that God is FOR HIM...
And so what we see here in verse 2 is David LEANING in on the expectations that he has…KNOWING he’s a child of God...
He’s saying - WAIT - shouldn’t MY HEART be full of JOY?
WAIT - God - aren’t MY enemies - YOUR enemies?
WAIT - Aren’t WE on the same team....God?
And this is why SO many of us can RELATE to David...
On one page of the Psalms he’s SINGING out in praise to God, and then 3 verses later he’s like - GOD WHERE ARE YOU?
And what we see in that is - the LIMITATIONS of Man...
**If you’ve ever gone for - any kind of a drive - with small kids - - What’s the #1 question heard during that time?
SLIDE: Are We There Yet?
The reason this question is even asked is because KIDS don’t have an understanding of the bigger picture...
**Recently drove to Chicago (after 15 minutes)
The SAME is true with us (Christians) as we walk through life**
And because we’re NOT GOD - we end up asking these questions we see here in v2
And for us Christians - I think we tend to ask these questions of God when there seems to be an apparent DEFEAT in our lives...
When it seems that Satan has WON a particular battle!
Maybe there’s a particular sin that won’t seem to let you be
Maybe there’s a situation that seems to have OVERTAKEN you...
Maybe there’s a person in your world who’s GOAL IN LIFE seems to be to destroy you...
What we see from David here is that - He’s been there!
Which is GOOD for us - because he helps us know what to do!
He shows us that in those times, we need a NEW PERSPECTIVE…a NEW WAY OF SEEING...
We bear the weight/wait of life by seeing more clearly the light of life, Jesus Christ.
“Light up my eyes” David says...
David KNEW that the ONLY way that he was going to be able to bear the weight of GOSPEL suffering…
…was to SEE Jesus more clearly...
NOW - how do we do that today?
Let the word of Christ DWELL in you richly...
We SEE Jesus more clearly as we SEEK to have His Word DWELL in us...
*How many of you have your kid’s Social Security Number’s memorized?
*How many of you have a favorite song?
Know the words?
How does this happen?
MEDITATION!
Christian MEDITATION is to feed the mind on the Word of God…and digest it slowly...
*Facebook: Spider / Venus Fly Trap
Christian Meditation is:
Shaped by the Scriptures
Reliant upon the Holy Spirit
Exercised in Faith
Shaped by the Scriptures - and so it’s no surprise what David said back in Psalm 1
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