Psalm 28

Like waiting to die.

Psalm 28  

WEDNESDAY  Reflections

What are we without God?

We are little more than people waiting to die.

The psalmist starts his prayer for help with the acknowledgment that without God answering they are no better than those who are waiting to die. This is true. We are all going to die, no matter how young, how rich, how powerful, we are all going to die. If that is all there is then life can be very pointless. The Psalmist says that without God answering then that is all their life is, waiting to die.

However, with God, there is so much more. Yes, we may die and we may die in a way many consider worthless or a waste, but if God is our Lord then we have hope. Hope in this life and in the next.

Yes without God it's hopeless, but we aren't without God. So we can rejoice and praise the Lord.

Psa 28:1-9

(1)  A Psalm of David. Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

(2)  Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.

(3)  Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.

(4)  Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.

(5)  Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.

(6)  Blessed be the LORD, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.

(7)  The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.

(8)  The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.

(9)  Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.

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