If there is one thing that the world is producing, it is the fact there is evil all around us and people are being sucked into the foolishness and the lies that the world is producing. I’ve mentioned this before, but people can get twisted and confused about all kinds of different things. People are looking for the source of truth and they are wanting to find it in other people and even through substances and different things of that nature. What we need to understand is that we can only find healing from God and Him alone. He is the only One who knows and supplies our needs rather than giving us our wants. In other words, God will give us what we need rather than our wants. He knows what is best of us. We need to be in that place of receiving His instruction with an open heart as well as an open mind.
In today’s passage, David writes this psalm as a prayer for deliverance from those who do wicked. David asks God to listen to him and his prayer for mercy. How many times have we been in those moments where we believe and feel that God wasn’t listening to us. When we are in those storms of life, we have the tendency to believe that God doesn’t listen to us, but this is not the case however. The reality is that God does listen to us. We cannot treat God like a genie in the bottle just wanting Him to grant us our very wishes. That is not who He is. He hears us and will bless us when it is His time. We need to understand that God has our very best interests. Only He can lead us through those storms and we need to be in that place of being in tuned with Him. Once we are in tuned with Him, then He will see us through.
Scripture Psalm 28:1-9 (NLT Translation)
1
I pray to you, O Lord, my rock.
Do not turn a deaf ear to me.
For if you are silent,
I might as well give up and die.
2
Listen to my prayer for mercy
as I cry out to you for help,
as I lift my hands toward your holy sanctuary.
3
Do not drag me away with the wicked—
with those who do evil—
those who speak friendly words to their neighbors
while planning evil in their hearts.
4
Give them the punishment they so richly deserve!
Measure it out in proportion to their wickedness.
Pay them back for all their evil deeds!
Give them a taste of what they have done to others.
5
They care nothing for what the Lord has done
or for what his hands have made.
So he will tear them down,
and they will never be rebuilt!
6
Praise the Lord!
For he has heard my cry for mercy.
7
The Lord is my strength and shield.
I trust him with all my heart.
He helps me, and my heart is filled with joy.
I burst out in songs of thanksgiving.
8
The Lord gives his people strength.
He is a safe fortress for his anointed king.
9
Save your people!
Bless Israel, your special possession.[a]
Lead them like a shepherd,
and carry them in your arms forever.
Prayer
Dear Heavenly Father, help us to receive Your instructions with an open heart and an open mind. When we receive those instructions, help us to not only receive them but help us to obey them. We cannot grow Your Kingdom unless we obey You. Help us to do just that. In Jesus name, amen.