pression. Listen to the triumph, "I will say unto God my rock, Why hast Thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning because of the oppres sion of the enemy?" He is talking to God who is the Rock. And that is not just some boulder which you find hidden here now and moved again by some big bull dozer later on. It symbolizes some immovable mountain or source that is always firm and impreg nable. If you feel that there is a coldness in your life, you need not look to see if God has moved. He has not. The moving perhaps has been done on your part. He is your Rock. Do not look where He has gone. He is just the same as He always has been. You perhaps are the one who has moved. These enemies who come in to bring doubts upon our minds, he "as with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?" "As with a sword," in the original means "as with mur der in my bones." There is a kill ing by the tongue. This important little member can cut to the bone and its wounds are hard to cure. Just remember as believers, we are never going to want for enemies as long as the devil is. alive. Jesus said, "In the world ye shall have tribulation." Do not be surprised if the world hates you. Just simply know and understand that it hated Christ long before it ever hated you. Finally, the testimony with which we conclude, verse eleven, is a re-echoing of the sentence in verse five. "Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise Page 45
The Bible says, "Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts." Waterspouts are simply when the depths below seem to clasp hands with the storms above. All of these things triggered in the mind of the Psalmist the mental pain and an guish that he had to go through. He said, "All of thy waves and thy billows have gone over me." Have you ever had this happen to you? For the Psalmist it just seemed like everything went wrong. It felt like all the troubles in the world had hit him. And, you know, it is a fact that if you ever get depressed or discouraged, it does seem like all the bad things just happen at one disadvantaged time. Here were two awful phenomena of nature, the dreaded waterspouts which were not uncommon along the Judean coasts, along with the waves and the billows which rushed over him completely. For some reason the last thing we want to see, or so it seems by our actions, is described in verse eight. "Yet the Lord will command His lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night His song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life." You want to know something? In these times when the billows are constantly pouring over us, the waves and the waterspouts coming upon us, this lovingkindness from God is a noble lifebelt and miraculous pro vision amid the rough seas. He says, "It comes to me in the day time." Here God is commanding lovingkindness to be showered down upon us. His grace and His mercy come forth by decree. In the ninth verse we find the Psalmist emerging from his de
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