My wife and I are reading through the Psalms in our evening reading and occasionally a nugget of the Psalms jumps out of the page. Don’t you love it when, after years of reading the “Old Book” passages become alive, reinforcing old teachings or simply warming your heart.
This is the book of Psalms, and it is rich.
I pray I can communicate a portion of the blessing we receive from this wonderful book.
Psalm 60:9 Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom?
Psalm 60:10 Have you not rejected us, O God? You do not go forth, O God, with our armies.
Psalm 60:11 Oh, grant us help against the foe, for vain is the salvation of man!
Psalm 60:12 With God we shall do valiantly; it is he who will tread down our foes.
Our last portion of Psalm 60. I always love the last portion of a psalm, for the body of the typical psalm provides a struggle, a failure, a disappointment, even a question of faith, and the author is struggling with a topic in each psalm, but when we get to the last portion, I do not recall a psalm yet that ends without a time of encouragement and hope in the Lord.
Psalm 60 is no different!
Yes verse 10 reminds us that the nation is feeling the loss of God’s help, that there is something going on that reminds the people of their state of weakness. They have been rejected in some manner and David reminds the people of this fact, yet he doesn’t sit there. He doesn’t remain in a defeated, woe is me state, for he immediately begins his plea with God for help, for his admission of his utter need of help.
No where is there any help in the efforts of men, for where could he go – God is the strength of the nation.
I can hear echoes of Peter in David’s writing here, of when Peter was asked if he would leave after a period of testing. What was Peter’s response in John 6:68?
“Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.
To whom shall we go? What great reminder for each of us. David spoke of the vanity of the salvation of man. Peter takes the flip side and states the lack of any effective source to rely on other than the Lord.
We have a choice.
With God we shall do valiantly, for in the end, it is He who will tread down our foes!
Seeking help from man will lead us to empty results. No one reading this short post wants empty results!
Seek the Lord for His help!
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