MEDITATIONS IN THE PSALMS (7-28-24) [An outline of the Psalm A good devotional study when using the scriptures indicated] Psalm 34:4-6, Part 2 Why don’t we pray? We have all to gain and nothing to loose! We have all the encouragement to do so. “I sought the Lord, and He heard me, and delivered me from all my fears. They looked to Him (they flowed unto Him, Heb.4:16) and were radiant, and their faces were not ashamed. This poor man cried out, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.” Our Father is concerned for ‘whatever we cry out for’; “For who is there that has God so near as the Lord our God is to us, for whatever reason we may call upon Him” (Deut.4:7). (Ps.32:6; 50:15; 56:9; 145:18-19: Jer.29:11-12; 33:3: Luke 9:10). The cause of the vows and challenges in vs.1-3 brings David to seek: “I sought the Lord, and He heard me, and delivered me from my fears.” He sought the Lord by prayer and in faith “He that cometh to God must believe that He is” (Heb.11:6). How is it that a man comes to seek the Lord? “For thus says the Lord God: “Indeed I Myself will search for My sheep and seek them out, as a shepherd seeks out his flock on the day he is among his scattered sheep…” Ezek.34:11-13 (Isa.62:12; 65:1). David states next that his deliverance was not peculiar to himself but common to all those that humbly and sincerely seek the Lord. “They looked unto Him and were lightened (cheered by His light or pleasure in receiving them) and their faces were not ashamed” (or left to shame or disappointment) “For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him the Son of Man also will be ashamed when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels” Mark.8:38. (Rom.9:33; 10:9-11). “This poor man cried out, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.” The word translated poor is rendered ‘humble’ Ps.9:12; ‘afflicted’ Ps.18:24; ‘lowly’ Pro.3:34; ‘needy’ Pro.31:20. Those that seek the Lord and find deliverance are ‘poor, humble, afflicted lowly, needy ones.’ “For the needy shall not always be forgotten; the expectation of the poor shall not perish forever” Ps. 9:18; “For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now I will arise,” says the Lord; “I will set him in the safety for which he yearns” Ps.12:5. The mere oppression and sighing of a saint ever how silent he or she bears it is a cry in itself to their God. Moses was heard and answered at the Red Sea though he said nothing. We have a High Priest, Jesus Christ, who can be touched with the mere feeling of our infirmities. “Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; let such as love Your salvation say continually, the Lord be magnified! But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinks upon me. You are my help and my deliverer; do not delay, O my God” Ps.40:16-17. (Ps.72:1-14; 86:1). “Blessed are the poor in spirit (before God) for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” Do you want God’s ear and heart? Confess your poverty. “The LORD will destroy the house of the proud, but He will establish the border of the widow.” ~~Terry Worthan, 1938-2022
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