Since I cannot sleep, running through the songs for church today. Running through all of the details of the service worrying if everything is in place for friend day. It was nice to be reminded that God has the service planned, He is to be glorified, honored, and His name will be praised today!
What I love about the Psalm's is they are songs of praise, hardship, faith, hope, and desperate cry's for help.
Psalm 61: After I finished this Psalm the Lord showed me five ways in which He protects His children.
1. A mighty, Rock of Safety. (v2)
2. My Refuge. (v3)
3. A high tower where my enemies can never ever reach me. (v3)
4. We are safe beneath the Shelter of your wings. (v4)
5. You send your loving-kindness and your truth to guard and watch over me. (v7)
To fully understand and appreciate these five places of safety, it's so important to have a visual knowledge of the of the land (the topography) of Israel. There are not very many trees in Israel and you can often find yourself exposed to the attacks of the enemy.
Psalm 61 painted a picture of safety above all the attacks and storms of life. . .a place of peace and protection.
Psalm62:
Waiting on God. (v1,2)
Address to the psalmist's enemies. (v3)
The character of the psalmist's enemies. (v4)
Advice to wait upon God and to trust Him at all times. (vs5-8)
God's evaluation of men. (vs9)
Good wholesome advice. (vs10)
God is the source of power and grace. (vs11,12).
Psalm 62 has been a source of great comfort to the distressed people of God through the centuries. David, the human author, was used of God to write this insightful revelation since he knew what it was to wait patiently for God to bring the desired deliverance. This psalm, was one of the favorites of Martin Luther, who knew what it was to patiently to wait for Him to come to his rescue. Doubtless it will be the source of great inspiration and encouragement to many of God's hurting people in the future, who will come to know Him in a real and personal manner.
Psalm 64:
Inside this psalm David is meditating upon, and pondering all the ways of the wicked. The wicked are involved in what they think are hidden schemes and plans that involve cunning, craftiness and the items of planning that goes under the surface of what can be found out.
Because these wicked schemes are cunning, shrewd and very carefully crafted in the depths of their thinking they think that these schemes are also hidden from being made public and can therefore be implemented easily without any impeding force coming down on these plans.. That they really are for all intents and purposes secret plots, conspiracies. Well hidden within the depths of their own thinking, far under the surfaces of possible detection from their advisories. Likewise David's meditation is also secret and reaching far into the depths.
These depths of thinking that David is writing to the wicked and their seemingly hidden plots, also applies to his own meditations which includes his contemplation of their actions and the depths of their plots as he is also thinking and reaching into the depths himself.
Psalm 69:
This begins our look at the face of God. As you read through any of these psalms, underline every request David makes to God. Then, underline and circle every and all characteristics of God. Beginning in verse one, we see David crying out for God to save Him. That would be a request. Note in verse five our sins cannot be hidden from God. This is because God is omniscient (all-knowing).
We learn that God is the Lord God of hosts and the God of Israel (v6).
He is the receiver of our prayers, He is LORD, He is God, He has endless mercy, and He alone saves (v13).
He is the Deliverer (v14).
He has complete loving-kindness and tender mercies (v16).
He has the power to redeem and deliver all (v18).
We see a side of Him we never want to see in verse 24: He experiences disgruntlement and wrathful anger.
He is righteous (v27).
Again, He has the power to save (v29).
Finally we see that He is worthy of praises sung and to be magnified (v30).
Chuck Goulart
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