I’m still on the plan, but it has been so difficult to find time for all the reading and especially the blog writing in the midst of everything I have going on. Not mere business, but significant trials of health in our family. I find David’s laments in the Psalms heartening and his calls to trust fully in the Lord absolutely necessary. In the plan we’re in 1 Samuel, while also bouncing into the Psalms of David that match up to the story. This Psalm 52, is not a lament, it is a rebuke on Saul and Doeg the Edomite, while also being David’s declaration to wait on the Lord rather than depending on himself. It saddens me because it reminds me that there are so many people in this world who trust in themselves to their own destruction. I think of powerful people who through self-deception or malice love lies more than truth. I think of everyday people who trust lies the world tells them, and so never seek God as their protector and truth. When people trust in themselves, or in their success, their riches, their abilities, or anything other than God, what they have actually pursued is their own destruction.
The Steadfast Love of God Endures
To the choirmaster. A Maskil of David, when Doeg, the Edomite, came and told Saul, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.”
1 Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man?
The steadfast love of God endures all the day.
2 Your tongue plots destruction,
like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.
3 You love evil more than good,
and lying more than speaking what is right. Selah
4 You love all words that devour,
O deceitful tongue.
5 But God will break you down forever;
he will snatch and tear you from your tent;
he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
6 The righteous shall see and fear,
and shall laugh at him, saying,
7 “See the man who would not make
God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his riches
and sought refuge in his own destruction!”
8 But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God.
I trust in the steadfast love of God forever and ever.
9 I will thank you forever, because you have done it.
I will wait for your name, for it is good, in the preseence of the godly.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), Ps 52:title–9.
I am praying for God to grant me His presence and to keep me close. I want to trust fully in Him even when it is difficult. I lack the diligence and discipline to do it, God must transform my habits, my life, and my heart to draw me in. Amen!