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A Prayer For Protection
Psalms 31:1–14
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Queen Victoria was almost entirely dependent on the Prince Consort, Prince Albert. When Albert died very young, Queen Victoria was grief-stricken for many years. All her sorrow was summed up by this phrase: “I have no one to call me Victoria now.” She had plenty of peop … More
This is a very important Psalm as parts of it are quoted by Jonah, Jeremiah and Jesus. We cannot be certain when David wrote it or under what circumstances but it seems that he may have been looking back over various periods in his life. David does not hesitate to tell us what historians do not reveal. This is one of the great values of the psalms. They shed light on certain areas that no other writer has touched on. They over and over again expose the emotions and secrets of the heart that reveal the cause of David’s grief.
The enemy had laid a net for David (v. 4). David rejoices that his salvation is in the Lord and that regardless of the circumstances he has the freedom to serve Him (vv. 1-8). He then shares how grief even effects a persons’ health (vv. 9-10). Sin often seems to promise freedom and fun and for awhile it will appear to make good on its promise. Trouble, sorrow and physical weakness had strapped his strength. But then comes regrets and ruin. He was a reproach to men and an object of malicious slander (vv. 11-13).
In verses eleven through thirteen he describes himself as:
Application
As I see the grief and sorrow that David experienced because of a few minutes of sin, it should be a great warning to me to stay as far as I can from the sins of immorality.
Psalms 31:1-14 (English Standard Version)
In you, O LORD, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame; in your righteousness deliver me! Incline your ear to me; rescue me speedily! Be a rock of refuge for me, a strong fortress to save me! For you are my rock and my fortress; and for your name's sake you lead me and guide me; you take me out of the net they have hidden for me, for you are my refuge. Into your hand I commit my spirit; you have redeemed me, O LORD, faithful God. I hate those who pay regard to worthless idols, but I trust in the LORD. I will rejoice and be glad in your steadfast love, because you have seen my affliction; you have known the distress of my soul, and you have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy; you have set my feet in a broad place. Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eye is wasted from grief; my soul and my body also. For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away. Because of all my adversaries I have become a reproach, especially to my neighbors, and an object of dread to my acquaintances; those who see me in the street flee from me. I have been forgotten like one who is dead; I have become like a broken vessel. For I hear the whispering of many-- terror on every side!-- as they scheme together against me, as they plot to take my life. But I trust in you, O LORD; I say, "You are my God."
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