Are you angry with God?

Psalm 63

“O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you;

my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.

So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding your power and glory.  Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you.

So I will bless you as long as I live; in your name, I will lift up my hands.  My soul will be satisfied as with fat and rich food, and my mouth will praise you with joyful lips, when I remember you upon my bed and meditate on you in the watches of the night; for you have been my help, and in the shadow of your wings I will sing for joy.  My soul clings to you; your right hand upholds me.  But those who seek to destroy my life shall go down into the depths of the earth; they shall be given over to the power of the sword; they shall be a portion for jackals.  But the King shall rejoice in God; all who swear by him shall exult, for the mouths of liars will be stopped.”

Stop reading and put yourself in the story, you’re a young boy, and a prophet of God named Samuel comes, and you are called out of the fields of your dad, watching his sheep.  You have older brothers, but Samuel says God has picked you to be the next King.  One day you’re sent to bring food to your brothers who are in the army of the King, and you see the enemy of Israel making fun of them and God, and there on the spot you volunteer to fight this giant.

You have been living in the King’s presence, you are best friends with his son, and one day the King hears the ladies sing a little song.  It goes like this; Saul has killed a thousand, but David, has killed tens of thousands, and for the first time, you become a threat to the King’s kingdom in his mind.  Now you’re hiding out in the wilderness in a cave, with a bunch of misfits who have come to be with you.

How are you doing, are you angry with God, or you desire just one good shot at the King, do you find bitterness all around you?  If so you need to read and ask the Father, to open the eyes of your heart, for David was not angry or bitter, but often he was discouraged.  You see 1 Samuel 23:14b, gives us this insight, “And Saul sought him every day, but God did not give him into his hand.”

Do you recall the day God put the King in the same cave as David, and David’s men wanted to kill him, but David would not allow it, for he was the anointed King of Israel.  What would you have done, and guess what if you had you might have been the next King, but the hand of God who had protected you would no longer be on you?

From the Back Porch,

Bob Rice