“..This I know, that God is for me.
10 In God, whose word I praise,
In the Lord, whose word I praise,
11 In God I have put my trust, I shall not be afraid.
What can man do to me?
12 Your vows are binding upon me, O God;
I will render thank offerings to You.
13 For You have delivered my soul from death,
Indeed my feet from stumbling,
So that I may walk before God
In the light of the living.” (Psalm 56:9-13 NASB1995)
How did David know that God was for him and not against him?
Because his trust was in the Lord, and he listened to the voice of the Lord
speaking to his heart, and he followed the Lord and his leading in his life. He
was a man of God and a servant of the Lord who feared (honored, respected,
reverenced, and obeyed) the Lord. He kept the covenant God had with his people,
and he remembered the commands of the Lord, to do them (to obey them).
Did David ever fail to be who God wanted him to be? Yes! Did
he commit adultery with a woman and then murder the woman’s husband? Yes! But did
he repent of his sin to God? Yes! And did God restore him? Yes! But were there
consequences for his sin? Yes! But God restored him and God still used him to
be his servant. So this is not saying that David always led a perfect life, but
it is showing that he repented, changed, and followed the Lord.
And we can know that God is for us and not against us when
we repent of (turn from) our sins and we follow our Lord in obedience to his
commands, which is what it means to have faith in Jesus Christ. For Jesus took
our sins upon himself and he put our sins to death with him on that cross so
that, by God-persuaded and God-gifted faith him we might now die with him to
sin and obey his commandments and follow in his ways, by the grace of God.
And when David praised the Lord, it was not with empty
praise, giving lip service only to God while withholding himself from coming
under God’s control. He was very thankful to God for who he is and for his
relationship with David and for God choosing him like he did to be the King of
Israel, and to lead God’s people, and for all that God did in David’s life. And
because he was thankful to God, he served the Lord with his life and he obeyed
God.
And because of his relationship with the Lord, and his
confidence in God, he knew he had no reason to fear his enemies when they came
against him, but he trusted in the Lord to work all things together for good.
And he was serious about his service to the Lord, and his walk of faith in
obedience to the Lord, and he wanted to please the Lord with his life. And so
he gave his life to God as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, for he
loved God.
And he was very thankful for his salvation, that the Lord
delivered his soul from death, because of God’s grace, but also because David
believed God, and he worshipped him, and he followed his lead, and he obeyed
the Lord. For both in the Old Testament and in the New Testament, God regards obedience
as faith, and he regards disobedience and the practice of sin as unbelief (Hebrews
3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22).
And in the same way we can be saved by grace through walks
of faith in obedience to our Lord and to his commands. For this purpose Jesus
gave his life up for us on that cross that we might die with him to sin and now
walk with him in obedience to his commands and to his will and purpose for our
lives. For our lives are to be surrendered to the Lord to follow him wherever
he leads us and to do all that he commands us to do. This is biblical faith!
But if we should decide to profess faith in Jesus Christ but
then to continue living in deliberate and habitual sin, and not in walks of
obedience to our Lord and to his commands, then we will not inherit eternal
life with God.
[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John
6:44; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:6-8; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans
12:1-2; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; Galatians
5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews
12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:5-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]
Seek the Lord
An Original Work / July 20, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
Musical Instrumentation by Mark
Bradley
Based off Isaiah 55
“Come to Me all you
who thirst; come to waters.
Listen to Me, and
eat what’s good today,
And your soul will
delight in richest of fare.
Give ear to Me, and
you will live.
I have made an
eternal covenant with you.
Wash in the blood of
the Lamb.”
Seek the Lord while
He may be found; call on Him.
Let the wicked
forsake his way, in truth.
Let him turn to the
Lord, and he will receive mercy.
Freely, God pardons
him.
“For My thoughts are
not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My
ways,”
declares the Lord,
our God.
“My word that goes
out of My mouth is truthful.
It will not return
to Me unfulfilled.
My word will
accomplish all that I desire,
And achieve the goal
I intend.
You will go in joy
and be led forth in peace.
The mountains will
burst into song… before you,
And all of the trees
clap their hands.”
I Know That God is For Me
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