Text:
Psalm 30:8-12 (ESV)
8 To you, O LORD, I cry, and to the Lord I plead for mercy:
9 “What profit is there in my death, if I go down to the pit? Will the dust praise you? Will it tell of your faithfulness?
10 Hear, O LORD, and be merciful to me! O LORD, be my helper!”
11 You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; you have loosed my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness,
12 that my glory may sing your praise and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks to you forever!
Observation:
There are times in our lives when we need to descend in the current season so that we may be exalted in another season.
In times like this we can look to the example of David in our focal passage for today. What did David do?
We find the answer in Psalm 30:8.
Psalm 30:8 (ESV)
8 To you, O LORD, I cry, and to the Lord I plead for mercy:
David humbled himself before the Lord, and he cried our to the Lord for mercy. In times like David faced, and times that you are facing, it is mercy that suits our case.
The encouragement that I draw from this Psalm is that troubles don’t last forever. I take delight when I read this verse.
Psalm 30:5 (ESV)
5 For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.
When the season of deliverance comes in our life; when joy comes in the morning, it is the time to show our gratitude to God. It is time to move from the pity party to the praise party.
Psalm 30:11-12 (ESV)
11 You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; you have loosed my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness,
12 that my glory may sing your praise and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks to you forever!
Prayer:
Father, I delight to associate myself with your servant David in crying out to your for mercy.
Father, I acknowledge that you are the potter, and I am the clay. Father, I surrender my will to You; Father, I willing submit to your hands forming me into the person that you want me to be.
Father, I delight to sing your praises before a watching world, and give you the glory for anything that is praiseworthy in my life. In the mighty name of Jesus I pray, Amen.
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Isaiah 55:11 (KJV)
11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
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