Psalm 6
1O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger,
Nor chasten me in Your wrath.
2Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am pining away;
Heal me, O LORD, for my bones are dismayed.
3And my soul is greatly dismayed;
But You, O LORD--how long?
4Return, O LORD, rescue my soul;
Save me because of Your lovingkindness.
5For there is no mention of You in death;
In Sheol who will give You thanks?
6I am weary with my sighing;
Every night I make my bed swim,
I dissolve my couch with my tears.
7My eye has wasted away with grief;
It has become old because of all my adversaries.
8 Depart from me, all you who do iniquity,
For the LORD has heard the voice of my weeping.
9The LORD has heard my supplication,
The LORD receives my prayer.
10All my enemies will be ashamed and greatly dismayed;
They shall turn back, they will suddenly be ashamed.
Nor chasten me in Your wrath.
2Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am pining away;
Heal me, O LORD, for my bones are dismayed.
3And my soul is greatly dismayed;
But You, O LORD--how long?
4Return, O LORD, rescue my soul;
Save me because of Your lovingkindness.
5For there is no mention of You in death;
In Sheol who will give You thanks?
6I am weary with my sighing;
Every night I make my bed swim,
I dissolve my couch with my tears.
7My eye has wasted away with grief;
It has become old because of all my adversaries.
8 Depart from me, all you who do iniquity,
For the LORD has heard the voice of my weeping.
9The LORD has heard my supplication,
The LORD receives my prayer.
10All my enemies will be ashamed and greatly dismayed;
They shall turn back, they will suddenly be ashamed.
i write this alone in my room while my family sits outside in the living room. i spent the last 30 minutes wrapping their presents. when i told them i needed some privacy to wrap them, they joked that they must all be getting bibles this year. i was happy to tell them that in fact...only jon, my brother, would be getting a bible this year. boy were they wrong. =P
christmas is in two days. and my heart is healing. this psalm has been my heart cry for 6 months. sanctification is a strange and awesome thing. sometimes the pain blinds you from the obvious...the obvious being that if God is sovereign...He knows exactly what He is doing in your life. He is cutting the sin out of your life with the hands of the ultimate Surgeon. do i cry out like this psalmist does to God and God alone? do i trust God with both the good and the bad? do i welcome both? Job did. David did. a child of God will and does trust God because his/her trust is God and God is all that is good. so let's cry, but cry to God. not cry to ourselves...over ourselves...but to cry even in glory for God. to humble ourselves in our pain and suffering and submit it all to the Lord. thinking of you girls.
christmas is in two days. and my heart is healing. this psalm has been my heart cry for 6 months. sanctification is a strange and awesome thing. sometimes the pain blinds you from the obvious...the obvious being that if God is sovereign...He knows exactly what He is doing in your life. He is cutting the sin out of your life with the hands of the ultimate Surgeon. do i cry out like this psalmist does to God and God alone? do i trust God with both the good and the bad? do i welcome both? Job did. David did. a child of God will and does trust God because his/her trust is God and God is all that is good. so let's cry, but cry to God. not cry to ourselves...over ourselves...but to cry even in glory for God. to humble ourselves in our pain and suffering and submit it all to the Lord. thinking of you girls.
1 comment:
thanks irene. i'm really grateful to know you are learning how to cry for God. it is most definately something I am also learning.. or trying at least.. have a wonderful wonderful time with your family and spending time with God winter break. we love you too!
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