Daily Devotional for Monday, June 10

David’s Plea to the Lord

“Consider and hear me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death; lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved,” Psalm 13:3, 4.

Have you ever felt like you were all alone and that God was not listening to your prayers? I can think of times that I thought that God was not answering my prayers, and I began evaluating my life and my prayers, and I even told God that people would think ill of me as a Christian if I were not able to figure a way out of my dilemma. After some time, I could see that God had heard me the whole time, and it was a time of building my faith in Him and His timing.

King David faced a myriad of difficulties with the enemies of God, children of Israel, some in his family and his own sin. At times, it appeared that David was severely depressed with the situation in which he found himself. At times, it seemed that even when he turned to the Lord that he still did not initially find the relief he sought: “I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me. In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted. I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed” (Psalm 77:1-3). David later said that this problem was his infirmity and would have to remember what God had done in the past to be encouraged (verses 10, 11). Like David and his plea, we need to have faith that God will never leave us nor forsake us (Hebrews 13:5, 6).

REFLECTION
Have you trusted in God’s mercy to deliver you? “But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation” (Psalm 13:5).

Tim Chambers