LORD I am in great need of your attention

January 15, 2019

Psalm 5: 1-6

“Give ear to my words, O Lord; consider my groaning.  Give attention to the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for to you do I pray.  O Lord, in the morning you hear my voice; in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you and watch.  For you are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil may not dwell with you.  The boastful shall not stand before your eyes; you hate all evildoers. You destroy those who speak lies; the Lord abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.”

The Psalmist is crying out to God in prayer and also songs of praise, but King David is saying LORD I am in great need of your attention, for only you can meet my needs.  Not knowing the situation, but it may be one of the many times when King Saul was trying to kill him.

Now you or I have anyone out to kill us or do we?  For Jesus tells us the thief, meaning the devil, has come only to kill, steal and destroy; you find that in John 10:10.  I’m sure you, like me understand Jesus cannot lie, so when He tells us the devil is out to destroy us it is true.  I’ve come to know in my own life, that the thief does not recognize my thoughts, or what my action will be to his deceitfulness.  But the dude has watched us for thousands of years, and he knows what buttons to push, he understands our fleshly desires.  And that being true, should that not make you and me needy and dependent on our God every moment of the day?

A busy life requires planning, and I’ve found that no plan equals little or no success.  Proverbs 21:30, gives clear counsel to the statement above; “There is no wisdom, no insight, no plan that can succeed against the Lord.”  Just maybe a wise person would run the plans of the day before the Lord and see if your intentions are the same as the Lord’s.

Do you understand that God has no place in His kingdom for evil and the proud and those full of self and those who make a practice of lying will not stand before God?  People who enjoy taking the life of others and the deceitful find themselves unable to approach a holy God. 

If you find yourself described above, there is still time to make right all of this, and the answer found in Psalms 51:17, “The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.”  It is not and I’m sorry, for God is not fooled by our words, He looks at the intent of the heart.

From the Back Porch,

Bob Rice