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Today's text from the ESV Study Bible: Psalm 56, 120, 140-142.
Has there ever been a time in your life when seemingly circumstances have left you nowhere to turn? Absolutely pinned against the wall?
In Psalm 142, David is hiding in a cave, and laments over, and over, "there is none who takes notice of me; no refuge remains to me; no one cares for my soul".
Make no mistake about it, David here is crying. Pouring his heart out. The circumstances of his life over the past years have been utterly devastating.
When we read this Psalm, it seems to me that we must put a long, long pause between verse 4 and 5.
Because it is here that David begins to understand: "I cry to you Yahweh, you are my refuge".
God's desires completely the heart of his chosen.
Sometimes, that means that God will make us lie down in the valley of the shadow of death. God will sometimes break those of us whose hearts have strayed.
Today, I am going to, in my mind, spend time in my cave of tears. I am going to recall those bitter times, and force upon my mind when I realized that God was my refuge. When it dawned upon my mind that Sovereign God has brought me here, and that he was also right there by my side, ordaining the events of my life so that I might understand where all the glory belongs.
