September 21
Psalms 3:1 LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! Many are they that rise up against me.
Hear the heart cry of a great and mighty soldier unto his God! Hear the cry of one who, after he has won numerous battles still, does not use his own arm of flesh to save him and to get him out of trouble. Hear one who utterly leans on God’s power and learns form God’s lessons.
Because of his sin with Bath-Sheba, King David was told that violence would not depart from his family. This song is the psalm that he wrote when he fled from his own son who slyly took the throne away from him. Couldn’t he have him killed? Couldn’t this great military hero have done away with him, even with his own son? The people would have understood, his generals would have stood by him, and would have glorified him for being a king which was no respectful of persons in judgment, not even of his own blood. No. For David, this was not God’s way of doing things. Absalom had turned many people against his father, and to stand against him in military action could have involved civil war and the destruction of the city, of the beloved Jerusalem which David worked so hard to build. The most wonderful thing in David’s flight from Absalom is that David knew that what was happening to him this was the result of his own sins; therefore he was willing to eat humble pie in front of his God and in front of his people. He will not fight against God’s reckonings in his life!
Lord Jesus, help us understand when things happen to us that are simply the fruits and results of our disobediences to You. Help us not fight your chastening. Help us to eat humble pie and take your chastening bravely just as we expect our children to do.
Job 5:17 Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
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