Saturday, February 9, 2008
The Purpose Of PSALM Testings..

‘O LORD, do not forsake me; be not far from me, O my God. Come quickly to help me, O Lord my Saviour.’ A psalm of David. A petition.

I felt that this psalm really showed the lowest point of David’s life. V17-18 stood out for me. It mentions that David was on the verge of falling and that his pain is ever with him. I felt that the cause of his pain was because he was still troubled by his sin.
As I reflect on what I could learn from psalm 38, 2 things came to my mind.
1) Am I still troubled by my sins?
Am I still clinging on to pass hurts or holding any thoughts of anguish in my heart. For God is able to judge the intentions and thoughts of our heart.
2) Do I trust God?
Do I really trust in God? I realize that the reason why God put me in this unfavourable position was because He wanted to see whether I would trust Him in delivering me out of this situation.

Numerous are his enemies who hated him without reason, he has become a man who does not hear, whose mouth does can offer no reply. I have this sudden thought that I could relate to how David was feeling. I can never talk as freely as I could in class, I can never hear ‘happy’ things but only slanders. In fact, I was reminded of the situation I faced back when I was secondary 3. I was in the top class and everything, but did I felt happy? The class was cold towards me at the point of time and even some of the teachers did not have a good impression of me. So what did I do? I did in what was probably the dumbest decision I ever made, I gave up. I decided to retain for a year, hoping for the better. And things did get better, I was top of the class and I was in a class where I got the respect that my heart desired. I even did well in my O levels. Little did I realize that God made such things to happen, each decision that I made was already predetermined by God.

As I was reminded of this past experience, I had a new revelation of what God was trying to teach me. He was putting me in a similar yet tougher situation because He wanted to remind me that He was always there for me. He was testing me to see whether I would trust Him for the miracle to happen.

Thank you God for this reminder and test that You have given me. I am reminded not to take You for granted and I will continue to trust in You for the miracles in my life. Make our lives many miracles…

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