Colossians 1:9 That is why we keep on talking to God about you since the day we heard about you. We ask him that you may know everything he wants you to do. We ask him that you may be very wise and that the Spirit will help you to understand.
10 We ask him that you will live the way the Lord wants you to live, so that you will please him in everything you do. We ask that you will do everything that is good. We ask that you will see the fruit from what you do. We ask that you will know more and more about God.11 God has wonderful power. And we ask him to give you all the strength you need to go through all your troubles, to be very patient in them, and to be happy.
12 Thank the Father who has made us ready to be with the people of God who live in his light.
Day 25—We say a little more about the mercy that has come down to us in God’s Love. |
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We made mention yesterday of the profound—and sometimes difficult to understand—prophetic revelation of Psalms 9 and 10. I had thought to move on to other Psalms, but something has caught my attention in the two following verses—Psalm 9:13,14
Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death: that I may show forth all Thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in Thy salvation.
Charles Spurgeon has said that the above supplication from David has in it the soul and marrow of prayer, and it, like the angelic sword, turns every way. Then he says, with regard to David making his prayer from the gates of death, The ladder looks to be short, but it reaches from earth to heaven. “When David speaks of his showing forth all God’s praise, he means that, in His deliverance, grace in all its heights and depths would be magnified.” O, the height and depth of God’s grace to us when we see ourselves surrounded by hopelessness!
“O hope of every contrite heart, O joy of all the meek,
To those who fall how kind thou art, How good to those who seek.
“But what to those who find, ah, this Nor tongue nor pen can show
The love of Jesus what it is, None but his loved ones know.”
What has taken my further attention from the Psalm itself is David’s concern that the mercy of the Lord might visit him that he might show forth all of the Lord’s praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion. David demonstrates to us how the mercy of the Lord lifts a destitute soul from the angry jaws of death unto the full realization of what awaits him, or her, when joined with that happy band that make up the daughter of Zion. Who can this be? I believe it is those who have found the Lord’s bosom of love and acknowledged their union with Him that only a child of His can know in the arms of their loving heavenly Father. Who, further, can this be? Can it not but be the ones who have discovered His grace that has reached them in the depth of their despair. They have allowed that grace to bring them into the Government of their Father’s Kingdom.
LOVING FATHER, I lay my weary head upon Your bosom while in this hopeless condition. And, Oh! I find such acceptance! I find such peace! I find such healing as I never before knew! Here today I will rest in Your Love.
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