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Show WHEN YOU FEEL LIKE YOU ARE SINKING Psalm 40: 1-4 One thing that is common for all of us is trials. When those trials come, we feel like we are losing it, we are slipping, we Another Psalm put it, "My feet almost slipped." Have you ever felt are sinking. like all you do and yet nothing seems to be working out? Have you ever wondered when to tum when you seem to be faltering at every tum? Well, this biblical text is a help is on something reminder that the way and that G d will do about your situation. David is the author and writes to remind us that there is value in 1 putting having confidence in God. Regardless of the circumstance, there trust and hearer, a deliverer, restorer, and a is a an enabler. He knows and writes about your and my situation because he had been there himself. In short, David shows us how to persevere and wait patiently upon the Lord. He assures us that the Lord is neither hard of hearing will be faithful to Look at nor far and He us. verse one: "I waited patiently for the Lord; and He inclined to me' and heard my cry."(v. 1) When we feel like we are sinking, The Lord will hear your cry. When we do our part which is to wait, this erse tells us that God will do His part and hear would be easy to murmur and 2 us. It grumble, complain going well. to or blame when Jesus showed things us are not another way. When He suffered in the Garden of Gethsemane while his disciples slept, when He faced one judge after another in illegal court after another, and when they hung Him on the old rugged cross, the Negro Spiritual says, "He Never Said A Mumbling Word." Silence before God is a powerful things. We demonstrate our leaning on the everlasting arms. I one would add one other verse to another Wait, What About Me?" The goodness of God is sure and our waiting will never be in Negro spiritual, "If Jesus Had to vain. He will tum way and hear our cries. When the Children of Israel were in bondage, they our cried out and God 3 enlisted Moses with these words, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people which cry Egypt and have heard their by reason of their taskmasters; for I are in know their sorrows; and I am come down to deliver then out of the hand of the Egyptian, bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey." (Exodus 3: 7-8) God will help you when you feel like you are sinking. and to Furthermore, the Psalmist assures us sinking, the Lord will restore us. "He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings." (v. 2) In Biblical times, they threw prisons into that when we feel like 4 we are pits that were holes in the ground with a hole at the top serving as both door and window. When the rain came, water and body waste would make them muddy and slimy. They were filthy, muddy places. The Psalmist says that the Lord will rescue us form the sinking place. He will up out of the pit of corruption and establish us on a firm foundation. bring us locked up in the inside of the inside of the jail in a deep, dark When Peter was dungeon, a gloomy place, a state of hopelessness, a place of slimy and slippery clay and guarded by soldier, the women held a prayer meeting and God dispatched an angel to bring him out of the hole. They buried Jesus is another man's grave, a lowly pit of shame and 5 He got up with all power in His hands. He who died, was buried, has risen and is established as the sorrow but praise God, everlasting rock of divine favour and When you God will be there immutable faithfulness. think you are sinking, to set you upon that rock of salvation. Finally, those who wit for the Lord's deliverance will be enabled to sing nto God. "And He has praises put a song in my mouth, even praise unto God: many shall see it, and fear, and new our shall trust in the Lord." • me In "I am • • Join me in song: redeemed! I am redeemed! I smgmg my am (v. 3) bought with redeemed. " a new price 6 and I am |
